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    How long can hens go with out food or water

    My feeder and waterer units hold a weeks worth of food. I keep them IN the chicken coop. My chicken yard is well fenced against the usual — rats, raccoons, weasels — and has a weave of pennant flags for its ‘raptor roof’. The raptor roof lets in sun, rain, snow but not birds. It also keeps my...
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    Talk me off the Ledge... $2000 for a chicken coop!

    My neighbour is using a metal garden shed ($600 Cdn at Home Depot) and chicken fencing wire on metal pound in posts. It took us an hour to pound in the posts. Post pounder was $5 to rent. The shed kit took us four hours to put up. Fencing material cost $100. She bought plastic nesting boxes from...
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    My baby turkey wont stop chirping! =( (other questions too)

    In a previous response to the original post I mentioned I was getting a real feather duster. Text is so easily misread. I do not ‘reward’ the little noisy one. I said it only shuts up when I cuddle it, but also said I can’t realistically do that all day. That’s not practical, so I don’t do it...
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    New to Turkeys - Why are poults so cute??? Also, serious questions.

    Show me the science. Every animal I have ever raised with loads of socialization has known their boundaries with humans and been respectful. Every animal I bought raised by someone else took years to become comfortable around humans. You have your experience. I have my experience. I also have...
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    New to Turkeys - Why are poults so cute??? Also, serious questions.

    There is no science to prove aggression in adult animals which were handled by humans as babies. The nicest, friendliest, confident birds (I keep chickens and turkeys together) I own were hand raised and ‘socialized’ by the breeders. My turkeys raised with loads of physical petting and...
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    My baby turkey wont stop chirping! =( (other questions too)

    So... I hatched 4 turkey poults. One of them scream-chirps most of the time. It has three siblings. It’s not ‘picked on’ by them. They all cuddle together just at the edge of the heat lamps circle. It has abundant food - they have a full crumble feeder and two or three times a day I give them...
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    ARG! Noisy Turkey Poult

    OMGoddess I have one of those too! I hatched four bronze poults. They were all chirpy and trilling the first week. They are 8 days okd now and one are getting their feathers and they are so cute! One of them makes that five-in-a-row screaming chirp though and it’s really loud!! Lol! I check the...
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