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turkeys/chickens
My mean turkeys are now sleeping side by side on the roosting bar with the chicken hens. The babies stand their ground and don't put up with any turkey business. They were separated but they do not like being away from their new "family". I guess I worried for nothing. Now I just have to... -
Hope This Saves A Turkey From Blackhead
Are you talking about plain old cayenne pepper like from the spice cabinet? Doesn't it burn their mouths? I want to try this but I want to be sure I'm putting in the right stuff before I do this. -
Official BYC Poll: How many chickens do you have?
17 chicken and 2 turkeys. Their names are Dumpling, Scrambled, Heart, Love, Sky (The Sky is falling), Little (Chicken Little) and Cadburry (lays chocolate colored eggs), Mia, Mya, Gia, Taylor, General Tsau, Nugget, Big Foot, Julia, Boiled (eggs), and Flower, and the turkeys are Thanksgiving...- quiltedv
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turkeys/chickens
Just to follow up.... I finally just decided to see how they would act. I put the turkeys out in the pasture with the chickens and the toddler size chicks. They went straight for my chicken Sky (The Sky is falling), a golden sexlink. She cowered and they pecked her. But my chicken Dumpling... -
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They might be if I don't sell them first. I could never eat one of my pet chickens, but these these things are so mean I might just have to! LOL Thanks for the help. -
turkeys/chickens
Thank you. I'll fence off a separate part of the pasture for those mean turkeys and build them a separate coop if I can't sell them. Something broke into the "toddler" coop and got 3 out of of the toddlers last night so we're very sad. Poor Casserole (Chicken Casserole), Deviled (Deviled Egg)... -
Sky and her first egg. Sky "The Sky is Falling". Her shell was soft the first few times but now she is a great layer.
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turkeys/chickens
I have 2 white broad breasted turkeys getting ready to leave the heat lamps and go out to the pasture. I have 7 one year old chicken hens, and 5 hens that are still in that "toddler" stage, not laying yet, still run away from everything. They are already out in the pasture. I also have 6...