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    Hi! I'm new to this board....

    welcome, from canada!
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    Im New Here

    welcome from the way up north
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    hello from western canada!

    thanks for the welcome.... looking forward to being a first time bird owner.... turkeys will be this year, and hopefully will add some chickens in there for next... just saving my pennies for the coop i found
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    Paper cartons?

    went to go and look but they werent there..... i was looking at the Rochester Hatchery Catalogue again last night, and they had cartons for sale there, but i think the dozen ones where foam, and then they just had the flats..
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    Where are the links for growing Thanksgiving Turkeys?

    oh thank you thank you for that link!! i'm just getting everything prepared to get my poults and that was fabulous to see someone who had already gone through the process, and enjoyed it.... but of course, like the eager beaver i am, i have even more questions to ask people! LOL guess i'll...
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    Baby Turkey Help

    <a href="http://www.sweetim.com/s.asp?im=gen&lpver=3&ref=11" target="_blank"><img src="http://content.sweetim.com/sim/cpie/emoticons/00020149.gif" border=0 ></a> thank you so much harp! sorry for all the questions, but if i get these little guys i really dont want to be unprepared when they...
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    Baby Turkey Help

    harp, i have a rabbit cage i was thinking of using (it's 30"L x 18"W x 16"H) for the first week or two, and then was hoping i could move them out on the back deck in something like the kiddie pool, and have them indoors at night do you think that cage is too small for the first couple...
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    hello from western canada!

    thanks all y'll.... there is sooo much information here, a person can get lost! LOL but it's still nice to have a place to poke around in and get neat tidbits on stuff.... think that so far, my biggest concern is the whole brooder thing, if the one i have is going to be big enough, and for...
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    hello from western canada!

    hello!! been poking around this site forever now, drooling over the coops have finally decided on getting a few turkeys this summer so joined the site so i could ask questions and hopefully not screw it up too badly LOL never had any chickens or such, but have alot of other critters out in...
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    Turkey food and snacks??

    the beans thing i can speak for personally.... i just about killed a boyfriend over that! (well, he thought he was dying anyhow LOL) i had cooked the beans in the water that they were soaked in, but someone had forgotten to tell me that you soak the beans to help remove the toxins that are in...
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    Baby Turkey Help

    good to know, thanks for the info by the way! was just reading through the other turkey thread, wow, what a huge amount of info to process!! how big are the poults when they arrive ( a couple days old i'm assuming)... just wondering if the brooder i'm thinking about is going to be big...
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    Baby Turkey Help

    thank you for the info... just researching today, and will probably be ordering my poults in the near future (that is after i convince my husband that "yes it is a good idea!") would you recommend giving them that avc mixture as soon as they are brought home? to ward off any potential weakness??
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