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    Nesting Box or No Nesting Box

    I didn't block my chicks from the nest boxes. When you got hens and non laying pullets around though it is kinda hard to do that. Doesn't matter because the pine shavings in my nest boxes gets removed and fresh pine shavings put in.
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    Chick with Broken or Dislocated Wing

    Yeah, I had a young cockerel that had a dislocated wing this past spring and I taped the one wing to his body and left the good wing out and it only took him about 4 or 5 days to heal and he had full use of his wing. He was a loner after that experience though which was sad because he such a...
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    What kind of snake is this? (*PICS*)

    I have been fortunate not to have been bitten by a snake and I hope it stays that way
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    coyotes?

    Back in the 1990's I was given a hybrid dog that was part coyote part some breed of dog and it was brindle with a very rough coat. We only kept it a short time because of the coyote in it it didn't want to be contained to our property. It wanted to be free to roam. I live in the Mojave Desert...
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    Missing eggs

    I was having that problem this spring. I made a big enough stink about it around the neighborhood that no one had better be caught in my chicken house stealing eggs and then all of a sudden eggs wasn't missing anymore. My dog was doing a lot of barking during that time too. So I am pretty...
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    Rats!!! hurrry help!!!

    Kill them!!!!!!!!! And kill any rat or mouse you see. I had a mouse kill one of my baby chicks (the first chick hatched last year). I used to live in Columbus Ohio and we lived in basement apartments when I was really young and we had rats bigger than kittens crawling over us and thank...
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    Rooster? or aggresive Hen?

    It sounds like you could have a rooster. I know that even from chicks my males always grew faster then the females.
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    NOOOO!!!!!! (rant)

    Last year and over the winter we had the same coyote come back every day around the same time (usually between 7 am- 8:30am) and it would sit in the desert in front of us waiting for us to let our chickens out. That coyote and the hawks managed to wipe out over half of our flock. I started...
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    strutter

    I don't have a camera but I noticed my 4 week old broad breasted whites doing that today. It would be the males that does this strutting with wings to the floor right? Or does the females do it too?
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    I know this is back yard chickens, but I hope a turkey ? is ok.

    I don't know where MsMoss lives but here in Southern California it is very warm/hot . It was 99 yesterday and today is supposed to be hotter. Whenever I get down on the floor with my poults they love to climb all over me and get up on my shoulders and the bbw poults will even get up on top of...
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    Lone Turkey Poult (Pic)

    Your poults are so adorable
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    Turkey sitting on eggs.... lots

    I believe I read that it takes 28 days to incubate turkey eggs
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    when can you tell if a turkey is a girl or boy?

    The people that I bought my turkeys from told me that the knob at the top of their beak is how to tell the difference in poults. If It is bigger then it will be a boy and if it is small it will be a girl. These people are a local hatchery type business so I picked out my turkeys based on that...
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    Are Turkeys easy to care for??

    I just started with turkey poults last Friday and I absolutely love them. They are so easy.
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    Slate cross poults

    Sorry I just got poults this past Friday so I have had mine a week. I have blue slate poults , royal palms and just picked up a few broad breasted whites today.
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