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    Can turkeys live in town?

    My chickens are by far so much louder than the Turkey. Some days I’m embarrassed at what the neighbors think 😳
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    Can turkeys live in town?

    I have an in town turkey. I live on an acre. She’s from the farm up the road and decided she’d rather live here after many attempts of trying to bring her back unsuccessfully. My Neighbors love her. She gets visitors and her old family checks in on her. She stays on my property for the most...
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    Ohio Revised Code and Ranging Chickens

    Honest question, If you don’t have chickens why are you in a backyard chicken forum? If you’re here to just complain about chickens, I’m going to offer up you won’t have much support about your plight here. I also know the situation can be very different from the outside looking in. Not...
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    Ohio Revised Code and Ranging Chickens

    I use a portable poultry fence. Mine is 60” and I can move it around, and electrify if I want to. It’s 95’ long and I just purchased another so they have a larger area. I had to not because my girls were getting to far away, but because I have neighbors that have dogs that can get out.
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    Training "stubborn" hens

    I don’t say anything anymore. They hear the sound of my door opening and they come from everywhere. Even the Turkey. She has a tendency to wander. So if we don’t see her we just open and close the door and she velociraptors herself right back to the yard.
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    Training "stubborn" hens

    You’re being generous if you think they take turns……likely one of the brain cell holders lost it when it was their turn.
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    Training "stubborn" hens

    I bought 3 EE chicks on a whim last year to add to the flock. No braincells whatsoever. They would run right past the WIDE OPEN run door freaking because there is food and they’re missing out while the other girls are happily eating. They’re better this year. But can still have their oblivious...
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    Training "stubborn" hens

    Well youre lucky. Rodents, attracting other wildlife, bears, raccoons, skunk possum etc. are a real problem for the majority of chicken owners. So I absolutely err on the side of caution. When you start to notice the problem it is usually to late. Goodness gracious just read all the posts on...
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    Training "stubborn" hens

    If they’re out free ranging they rarely go into the coop to eat food. And they also don’t eat or drink at night so I don’t understand why they need food 24/7
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    Training "stubborn" hens

    I feed 2x per day, and use a call for food. They get fed in the morning. Enough that they run out. Then they get fed again about 2 hours before dark so they’re back in and I can enjoy the evening without stress of getting them in. They often don’t finish “dinner” but they’re excited to get it...
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    Turkey left home and joined my flock.

    She’s almost 6 years old. I'm confident it’s a hen lol. I’ll look into the others. I just don’t know if I have the space. I didn’t expect to have a turkey adopt me this year and I added onto the flock.
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    Turkey left home and joined my flock.

    Yeah oyster shell and grit, I have two separate flocks….just added another 8. (Laying and Bantam) Are there turkeys on the smaller side? I just worry about room. She absolutely prefers to just mill around with the girls. Winters get to -25+ and we had about 40” or snow snow on the ground. I...
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    Turkey left home and joined my flock.

    My neighbors had Spanish cross turkeys for years. I loved to hear the gobbles every day. They lost their flock to coyotes and had one solo hen left. (5 years old) she came down and started hanging around my chicken flock. I haven’t wanted her to get eaten at night so I caught her a couple times...
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    Egg hatched 8 hrs ago, not walking yet

    Yeah, it’s a gamble… the others look nothing like legbars. So there’s that. I have several in my brooder now. The two I circled look like legbars, and not like light brahmas, which don’t have eyelines and are much more yellow. But sources and breeds are questionable with large hatcheries. I...
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    Egg hatched 8 hrs ago, not walking yet

    Those don’t look like my legbar chicks….tnose looke like EE or something else. The two I outlined in the other post resemble legbar chicks.
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