We keep all the food, water, roosts, and nestboxes in our coops. Our chickens apparently think of it as "home" and they go in automatically when it starts getting dark, all I have to do is go out there and close the doors. (We have racoon problems at night, so they get locked in from sunset to...
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Ha Ha! I have a broody turkey and a broody chicken "sharing" a nest. They keep stealing the eggs back and forth from eachother, but it's definately one big nest that they are sharing, not 2 seperate ones. One chick hatched either late July 1st or early July 2nd, and it looks like one...
I found this yesterday:
I had no idea when the eggs were due because I had a chicken and a turkey sharing the nest! It took me a while to realize that they had gone broody, I figured they were laying eggs since they were both on the nest until I finally realized it was alway the same turkey...
I decided to leave them alone and let nature do it's thing. About a week ago another turkey joined in, so I've got 2 turkeys and one hen sharing. They seem to be sharing well, when one gets up, the other will take all the eggs, and when it comes back she will let her take her eggs back. Well...
We also went from about 16 eggs a day to about 3. It has to be the heat (I'm in Florida and it's been in the triple digits); they clamped up as soon as summer hit! My ducks too.
I have a chicken and a turkey that have apparently gone broody and are sitting on the same nest! I've never seen this before. Of course, it's not one of the many nest boxes that I've provided for them, they made their own nest and are laying side by side on their clutch of eggs. Has anyone...
That was the first thing our little ones did when we let them play outside for the first time. The moment their feet hit the ground, they started rolling in the dirt!
Ours do fine together, however the ducks WILL make a mess!!!! We tend to give them their own area so they can be as messy as they want, but sometimes they'd just rather go in with the chickens. We have a smaller automatic waterer in the "chicken's" coop to try to prevent the ducks messing it up.
I would let them out together and supervise for a while. I have a mama goose with 7 babies, and when we let her out she pretty much pushes anyone out of the way that she doesn't want near her babies. The other ducks/geese/chickens, for the most part, get out of her way and give the babies...
If you've raised chickens, you can raise turkeys. Pretty much the same rules apply. You can even feed them chick starter if you can't find turkey starter.
We put ours out before they got their feathers, but we live in Florida. Wisconsin's probably a bit colder . If it's fully feathered, it will be fine outside regardless of the weather, but if it's not feathered out yet I'd take into consideration how cold it's getting at night and how many of...
Are guinea eggs always white? I have a pair of guineas now that I keep with my chickens and should start laying any day now (if they haven't already....I haven't noticed any particularly pointy eggs yet). I want to make sure they will be easy to tell apart since a lot of my chickens are also...
If you only turned it off for three minutes, I would just turn it back on and put leave the "good" eggs in there. I would candle them all though, and discard the ones that have not developed. And you can "help" them out, but its best to let them do it naturally. In my experience, if they...
OMG!!! That makes me want to start selling eggs on ebay! Are people just nuts or what? Do they not realize that they can buy live chicks for a LOT less than that? Unbelievable.