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    Toulouse Geese Thread

    My fiance just got 2 Toulouse a few days ago from the farm supply store and I freaked when I saw this post. So I had to double-check (live and learn.) Metzer farms says you can tell by the shape of the beak where the beak meets their face. In Chinese and African it is concave but Toulouse is...
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    Hawks! How can I keep the hawks away from my chickens?

    I understand the sentiment. Our pen is 50ft x 25ft and I wish the hens could explore and taste all the yummy bugs out there like the turkeys do, but when I move them I'm making sure to have all kinds of shrubbery, flowers, and grasses for them to run around in. We are planning on switching to...
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    My first Eggs!!!!

    Congratulations! Did 4 of them lay on the same day or on different days?
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    Turkey in the rain

    My Bourbon Reds love to roost high on top of the plastic canopy frame, where they're exposed to the elements and not in their cozy A-frame coop or in the fruit trees even. During the daytime I've seen them shelter a little bit to get out of the rain if it's coming down hard, but not at night...
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    Hawks! How can I keep the hawks away from my chickens?

    All this hawk talk is making me paranoid again. A few months ago we lost two hens to a hawk a week apart from one another (one Black Autralorp and a Red Star Sexlink) and this hawk also attacked our Red Bourbon turkeys, pulling out a few of one's tail feathers. This hawk flew down a week...
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    My turkeys are driving me crazy!

    I think it's more like 'HURK HURK HURK!' Sometimes I think I hear a flock of seagulls, lol.
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    My turkeys are driving me crazy!

    Thank you all for responding. I forgot to mention we've had them for 2 months so I thought for sure they'd be used to the routine by now. At first I was very sympathetic to the little babies definitely! Yes there is one that is usually the loudest. It's also frustrating when I have to...
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    My turkeys are driving me crazy!

    Hello all you wonderful people, I know I need to make a newbie introduction but I wanted to post this first. I have always wanted turkeys and now have four 3-month-old Bourbon Reds (also a newbie to chickens). I have read a little of the forums and was aware that turkeys can be very social...
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