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Quote: Great Idea !!!!!!!!!!! Sorry for double post, Internet went out!

Quote: Great Idea!!!!!!!!!

Mine like to nest on the floor of the coop in a cut tire with hay, she just adds her down feathers. They eat everthing in sight, but corn is astaple food. Now the Turkey is using the Tire:lau

My Muscovy likes and old Tire!!!!! My turkey is using the Tire Now!

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Quote: I agree with peewee, there are many who start a contest and never end up judging it. One is the Parrot contest of Rio_Lindo_97. I have PM her about results to the contest and have got no answer!!!!~!!! Another is Cutest Waterfowl contest! by cayuga mommy . Both said contest closed...

Yea, It is a cut 13'' tire, but she also lays in another regular tire,if the Turkey's are not laying in the cut one. It is a 60 gallon water storage tank buried in the ground, I pump it out once a week and refill. I keep my turkeys with my ducks, chickens and guienas. They have done well but...

I put an cut old tire on the floor of the coop with the chickens, put hay in it and she has used it to hatch eggs three times(pictures #1&2), you know if she uses the nest , she will pull out her down feathers and line the nest. I did seperate the drake after they hatched, he was OK with...

Here was my Muscovy Family

Hey Rio_ Lindo_ 97, What happened to the Parrot Contest????????????????????????

Yes, it is.

Quote: Turkeys are much harder to raise up from babies. My chicks just go out with the hen and do their own thing, but the Turkey polts are much harder to raise, especially the first 2 months! At least that is my experience in the last year.

Yesterday we hatched out 2 chicken chicks and 5 turkey polts under a regular size Chicken (I do it also with my Banty hens). Today we went and put her and the chicks in a brood pen. I checked her later and she was pecking the babys very bad , it did not make a difference if it was a chick or...

Yea, I am in Brazil and it is spring going into summer here (opposite The U.S.) everyone is laying here, my Turkeys,Guineas, Ducks,Parakeets and of course my 15 Chicken hens (that is when they are not Broody)

I have 26 Guinea eggs in the bator today , both Jumbo and Regular, from two different people. Anything much different other than 28 days, from that of incubating Chickens? I have a Genesis Hovabator. Any advise would be helpful.