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    Turkeys out at 6 weeks?

    Thought as much. Thanks.
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    Turkeys out at 6 weeks?

    I've got 7 bourbon red poults that are completely feathered except for one or two little patches of baby down still on their heads. They've been off the heat for a while now and it's going to be 90 out during the day and in the very high 50's or low 60's at night here. They're 6 weeks old and...
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    axe alternative

    I use the broomstick method to do rabbits, chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese, etc. If it'll do a rabbit, it'll do poultry. Obviously I don't use it on the ruminants, but it's been tempting a few times lol
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    Please help me understand meat eaters not wanting to process a chicken!

    I'm a vegetarian that butchers every single edible animal in the house for everybody else. Figure that one out.
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    DIY HUMANE way to Kill Slaughter Chicken (Stun-kill, Gas)

    I hold my chicken for a while. I remind it it need not worry about where it's next meal is coming from (even though their crops are usually so loaded it's ridiculous) or what the hot rooster down the street thinks anymore because All Things No Longer Matter, little chicken. In my sweetest...
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    The 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

    One of my idiotic muscovy drakes likes to try to jump the chickens and he's got 5 hens running around with him (and he takes care of all of them too, he's a busy guy alright?). As much as I love ducks, there's the whole internet trope about that duck getting it on with a dead, male duck for a...
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    The 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

    Not remotely. We got lucky enough that hatch day coincided with feeding day. Snakes love newborn chicks of all sorts of different species. We actually try to line up hatch day with feeding day with the quail so if we have too many for the brooders, we can feed them off. Or any weak ones, ones...
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    The 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

    21 chicks from 22 eggs. 18 were cockerels so we fed them to the snakes. Hopefully we'll get three decent laying hens.
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    The 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

    1 little silver silkie mutt hatched today. Little red markings around his face. He's pretty cute. He? She? Whatever. So that's 19 days right there.
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    Ended Contest #4 Short Story Fiction Contest - 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong

    The day she hatched she knew she was different. Her classmates tried not to say anything rude, but she knew the look in their eyes. She'd seen it in her father's, in her grandmother's, her grandfather's. Her mother had begged them, clucking away and begging forgiveness for producing such a...
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    The 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

    Evening of the 12th. Should hatch 3/4/5 thereabouts.
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    The 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

    If so, add our 22 eggs. Who knows what will pop out since the only roos gettin' it on with the girls are/were my silkies.
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    The 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

    Am I too late to get in on this? I didn't even realize that obviously deeply christian holiday full of rabbits and chick hatching (lmfao) was the same day around our hatch date.
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    Very sad/sick looking cortunix quail

    Expect to lose her, but hope for the best. It's always easier to assume any sick bird of any kind is going to die, then you're really excited when they pull through. I'd for sure give her an electrolyte solution. Try to keep her as warm as you possibly can within that comfort range. You can...
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    Very sad/sick looking cortunix quail

    Expect to lose her, but hope for the best. It's always easier to assume any sick bird of any kind is going to die, then you're really excited when they pull through. I'd for sure give her an electrolyte solution. Try to keep her as warm as you possibly can within that comfort range. You can...
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    Preparing Your Flock & Coop for WINTER

    My "coop" is a fully insulated enormous igloo dog house that will be lined with triple-thick straw and hay. I only have a small flock so they're pretty content nestling together in there. I'm also in PNW (pierce county) so I doubt they'll need much more than that to be cozy.
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    I don't want a mower, and I actually LIKE animals

    I don't intend to.
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    I don't want a mower, and I actually LIKE animals

    1/2 acre in the wet pacific nw. Fully fenced with dogs occasionally going out to play on it. What would you put there? I don't want to buy a mower for a year and then have to sell it/throw it away because of moving (it's not possible to take it with us because it's not my choice). Live your...
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    I'm a little disturbed by what I've read and I'm not sure I belong here after all. Someone want to g

    I'm a pretty blunt person. I've been involved with raising animals since I was very small but I grew up... well. "country". The idea of people crying over dead chicks or trying to save chickens that are sick is kind of confusing to me. I get that they're your pets and you want to give...
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    My humidity simply won't go down.

    =) I dumped all the water out and we're down to about 57% humidity. So we're almost there. I think it'll be good to go shortly. Temp's been perfect for the past 28 hours.
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