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  1. smartlittleroo

    Setting on infertile eggs?

    Thanks for your reply! Several times I did hear some peafowl "calling" during the night so maybe the males did show up. I think she's been setting for a little over 2 weeks. I guess we'll see...
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    Setting on infertile eggs?

    Last year ago my peahen hatched 5 chicks. A couple of weeks after the hatch the males took off (I guess they were "deadbeat dads"). These are free-ranging peafowl who flew in and stayed, I didn't buy them. I haven't seen either male for almost a year. Now the hen is setting on a nest of 6...
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    Murder! How and why do they kill each other?

    We have a small flock of turkeys, 3 standard bronze hens and a Black Spanish tom. Yesterday I went out to my turkey pen and found one of my hens dead. Her head had been pecked in a couple of places, but there wasn't any blood around so I don't *think* she died from being pecked to death. I think...
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    Not sure what to do. Can you help?

    Thanks for your advice. Unfortunately he died this morning. He went to sleep after I gave him the penicillin. He woke up and changed positions a couple of times, but before noon he suddenly gave a few flaps of his wings and then he was gone. Poor boy. I was really hoping he'd pull through.
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    Not sure what to do. Can you help?

    Yesterday I discovered that one of my Blue Andalusian roos had been attacked by the other roos. It must have happened sometime the evening previous or early yesterday morning as he was fine the day before yesterday. I found him sitting by himself on the roost with his head down below roost...
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    Turkey Temperaments - Are Naragansetts just nasty?

    These two are brothers and they used to fight it out something awful. They would grab each other's heads and wrestle around, crashing into everything; the garage door, the wood pile, the downspouts. It was like watching an old time Western saloon brawl. Now that I think of it, they haven't been...
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    need help dealing with coyote

    Here is something I have wondered about. I know that to keep deer away from gardens and fruit trees many stores sell coyote urine that you are supposed to sprinkle around the area. Would human urine work to keep coyotes at bay? Sort of "marking your territory" with human urine the way that dogs...
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    Turkey Temperaments - Are Naragansetts just nasty?

    Last year I bought 4 Naragansett poults. I wanted Naragansetts because I knew they were a heritage breed and I had read that they had nice temperaments. It turned out that I got 2 hens and 2 toms. The hens are very sweet, but the toms have become well, how can I put this nicely... just nasty...
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    BBB - do they get too heavy to walk?

    She did get up on the back of an outdoor bench the other night (about 3' up) so there is a possibility that she hurt herself getting up there. I noticed a few times before the problem with walking started that she was kind of squatting with her wings down. Could she be on the verge of egg laying...
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    BBB - do they get too heavy to walk?

    I have a BBB hen and the last few days I have noticed she is reluctant to walk. Two days ago she seemed fine and was getting around (when she walks she kind of waddles, swaying from side to side). Yesterday she did a lot of laying on the ground. This morning she couldn't get up. She is a...
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    purple meat in blue chickens?

    Quote: Ha! Ha! Ha! Actually the area I live in (Puget Sound in Western WA) is prime geoduck farming area (yes, they farm these - they are a delicacy in Japan and the Japanese pay BIG bucks for them). I have never eaten one and never will, just because of the way they look. There has been a...
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    purple meat in blue chickens?

    DancingBear, my roo was just over a year old.
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    purple meat in blue chickens?

    This is really interesting. My roo looked so white in the sink. There was not a hint of yellow in the skin, but I did notice the leg meat when raw was really red. Way more so than any store bought chicken I have ever seen. When I say the skin was tough I mean really tough, I gave up trying to...
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    purple meat in blue chickens?

    Quote: Thanks for posting the links to those pictures. The rooster I had to dispatch this weekend looked exactly like that! My questions: is it normal for the fat on a free-range bird to be bright yellow? The skin on my rooster was really tough. Is that normal for free-range birds as well?
  15. smartlittleroo

    Never again

    Quote: That was beautiful. I had to kill a rooster this weekend. I raised that roo from a hatch last year. He was beautiful. But he attacked me for the second time. I vowed after the first incident that I wasn't going to keep a mean roo. It took everything I had to do it and I cried...
  16. smartlittleroo

    Modeling Nettie's Duck Shoes

    He's adorable! I also like the bow tie idea. Drakes should wear bow ties. My DH looks at me like I 'm nuts but I've always wanted to put capes on my ducks. I just think it would look so funny to see 14 ducks running single file with capes streaming out behind them! What a hoot! Or sombreros...
  17. smartlittleroo

    White Faced Black Spanish

    I have 5 WFBS, 3 hens and 2 roos. I LOVE them. They are actually pretty quiet, which is good because my son and DH both work nights or graveyard and need to sleep in. We have been having some fairly cold weather for my part of the county (PNW), mid 20's, and they seem to be doing fine. One of...
  18. smartlittleroo

    My Mandarins are here!!! OMG they're small-PIC

    I can sooo totally relate to "Xiang"!
  19. smartlittleroo

    Is this Unusual?

    I got some little eggs too! And some "misfires", the kind with the soft shell. Those were very weird to pick up.
  20. smartlittleroo

    Is this Unusual?

    I have 6 hen ducks, 5 of them were hatched in early May, the 6th is one of the "Moms" of these young hens. They are crossbred from a Rouen drake. The young hens started laying eggs about a month ago. Some of the eggs are HUGE. Not only are they huge, but these big eggs nearly always have a...
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