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    Sponsored Post Win an Ecoglow 20 Chick Brooder from Brinsea with your best tip for winter!

    I cut back on scratch grains and add BOSS (black oil sunflower seeds) - not a lot, treats, scraps and some beet pulp to add fat for winter. I start covering walls with tarps or plastic to prevent drafts and when its cold out I bring hot water out and the chickens LOVE it!
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    Lost my flock, starting over...

    About 3-4 weeks ago I lost my entire flock to a Pit Bull. I got up, got my kids up since its summer break. I thought I heard a dog outside but that's not real uncommon since we have close neighbors so I didn't think anything about it, but at about that same time my 11 year old daughter had made...
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    New 2 Turkeys, Narragansett x Buff Turkeys - New Pictures Added

    Wow yours are beautiful! Love how they're strutting too. Thanks for sharing pictures of them. Here are new pictures of them. I plan to take pics as they grow out and show what they mature into. Can't wait to see my first one strut!
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    New 2 Turkeys, Narragansett x Buff Turkeys - New Pictures Added

    Just picked the poults up. The darker two are coming in with more red and the two paler ones are very different. The lightest is buff colored and the medium colored is very pale with almost a bluish tent. I was also mistaken. I though she had blue slates but she doesn't. She has narragansetts...
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    New 2 Turkeys, Narragansett x Buff Turkeys - New Pictures Added

    Cool thank you so much for the reply. I LOVE color genetics but haven't even looked at turkeys yet. Lots to learn but I'll dive in sooner or later. Anyway thank you for the info. I will google the rusty blacks to see what they'll look like as mature adults.
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    New 2 Turkeys, Narragansett x Buff Turkeys - New Pictures Added

    I have no clue. But I believe she may also have blue slate. I forgot about those before.
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    New 2 Turkeys, Narragansett x Buff Turkeys - New Pictures Added

    Thanks, its so cool to see them growing up! We'll be picking ours up Saturday most likely. I'm anxious and nervous.
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    I miss my Tom, sniff sniff (RIP)

    I am so sorry for your loss. My heart goes out to you. Your tribute to Tom was wonderful to read and he was a beautiful bird. ((((HUGS))))
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    Bourbon Red 9 week old died today :(

    I just wanted to say I was so sorry to hear she's gone. I can't offer much help but hopefully someone with experience will reply. So sorry.
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    This is sweet (pics)

    So sweet!
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    New 2 Turkeys, Narragansett x Buff Turkeys - New Pictures Added

    I'm getting my first 4 turkey poults this coming weekend. They're from a late June hatch. Right now they're 2 weeks old. She has Narragansetts and Buffs and was experimenting with color a little on these. Here's a picture. I was just curious what they may look like mature. I have raised many...
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    How old on average are BOs when they start to lay?

    My hens are all mid August hatch and the Anconas beat everyone else to laying. All 3 of the Anconas were laying before any others. Then my 3 Ameracanas (EEs) started laying and now I'm getting brown eggs. I have 2 SLW, 3 BO and 3 Russian Spangled Orloffs. I've had a SLW, BO and a RSO squatting...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    I got 3 yesterday, 1 so far today. I have a flock of 14 layers, (3 Anconas, 3 Buff Orps, 2 SLW, 3 Ameraucanas and 3 Spangled Russian Orloffs). They turned twenty weeks at the beginning of January and we started getting 1 egg a day about a week ago. So now we've got 3 laying. Hoping to see more...
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    Honeysuckle vines on chicken yard...safe?

    I don't recall seeing many berries on honey suckle vines and I have to admit that the goats I have eat those vines like crazy and I've never had one so much as get sick from them. So I don't think that's true.
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    My flock is 4 old red sex-link and RIR hens that free range exclusively. I get an egg a day on most days from them. I don't know for sure they're not laying somewhere else but when they were contained in a pen we never got more than 2 a day. One is in a heavy molt and its not the one laying...
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