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    My butt ugly chicken

    Thanks. I kinda miss the way the turkey would run around the house (He had a dumb looking run too) when you pulled in, then the hen would come running around like a paranoid little crackhead, back and forth until she got in comfort range of Charlie the turkey. He would follow us right up the...
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    Rough month for us and the birds....

    And for those who thought I was kidding when I said the kids "tortured" the birds, here is a pic of my two youngest with their freshly bathed (in a cooler as a bathtub) turkey and hen. The hen didn't give much of a fight (she always gives in to whatever my daughter has planned for her) but they...
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    Rough month for us and the birds....

    I'll apologize in advance for the novel I'm about to write. A lot going on at our house, I haven't gotten on BYC in several weeks and the more I am reading while here, the more I need to vent a bit about whats happening at our home. So, I am very new at having chickens. Really. So new that I...
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    My butt ugly chicken

    Thanks for all of the kind words and I am sorry for not being back in a while and keeping up to date with our newbie shenanigans. It's been a rough couple months here. I had to send the turkey (Charlie) and the hen (Princess Rose dubbed by my daughter) to live elsewhere. Hopefully it is only...
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    Is younger better when wanting "handle-able" chickens

    I believe the hen is a White Rock? I'm not a hundred percent sure but it looks like one to me. Below is a picture of the rooster that had to go elsewhere, the hen that was on the wrong end of a slap shot, and the two birds I have left which are the turkey and the hen that is perched on it. If...
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    Is younger better when wanting "handle-able" chickens

    No, I don't think it was meant to be anything negative. Maybe just a word of caution. I didn't really explain very well and I think it may have come off that they were being treated rough. I am almost always around when the kids are interacting with the birds. There are some times when they have...
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    Is younger better when wanting "handle-able" chickens

    Thank you for the replies. Just to clarify, my son wasn't using the hockey stick to heard the chickens, he was actually playing hocking in the driveway when I asked him to get the birds back in the coop. It was an accident and he really felt terrible about it. My daughter is very gentle with...
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    Is younger better when wanting "handle-able" chickens

    Hello, I am new to all this, been at it since May of this year. We brought 4 two day old chicks home from my five year old daughters classroom at the end of her last school year. one turned out to be a rooster and had to leave for a less urban farm. We ended up loosing one when it was only a...
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    New, with a new coop, looking for info on other poultry

    Hello, I am VERY new to birds as well, but I do have several friends that have had ducks and according to them, the only water they needed was to drink. One of the people I know who had a duck was a kid who was on a hockey team I coached when my oldest was still playing. I remember seeing this...
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    Is it ok for my turkey and hen to hang together?

    I probably posted this in the wrong place didn't I? Bad newbie, bad newbie!
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    Is it ok for my turkey and hen to hang together?

    Ok, I am very new a keeping birds as I stated in my intro thread. I've been doing a little poking around on her for the last 7 hours or so and have read different things about keeping turkeys and hens together. Right now all I have is one turkey and one hen. I had a rooster two hens and the...
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    My butt ugly chicken

    I took the top one about a month ago. I was still in denial about the rooster. I think this was shortly after I was enlightened as to what my chicken really was. I look at it now and cant believe I attempted to call Charlie anything but a turkey. Not one of my finer moments. The bottom one I...
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