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  1. Bantambird

    Turkey housing - need help

    I use radiant heat panels. Not only does it reduce fire risk, but they use less energy, and I have had poults cook themselves with the heat lamps before. They can be pretty fragile until they are about 8 weeks old.
  2. Bantambird

    Turkey housing - need help

    be sure it is warm enough if you move them out at 2 weeks. Winter is coming soon and poults are very sensitive to hot, cold, drafts, and damp, so be sure that they have some way to stay warm enough going out at 2 weeks.
  3. Bantambird

    Turkey housing - need help

    A prairie schooner build might work out well in this case. They are designed to be moveable. Broad breasted shouldn't be jumping up so you won't need roosts.
  4. Bantambird

    A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

    My daughter wanted me to share her house sparrow friend, Pinto, a bird she rescued and takes care of. His parents ejected him from the nest when he was 5 days old because he has a deformed leg. I found him on the sidewalk and handed him to her, and they are now nearly inseparable. House...
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    A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

    My oldest thinks we may have bred a marbled black!
  6. Bantambird

    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Thanks! I always thought the standard aimed for medium single, but there seems to be a pretty wide range for medium single.
  7. Bantambird

    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    I wanted to show this guy's head. I like it best out of the other cockerels this year.
  8. Bantambird

    A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

    She has a type, and it ain't the one at home.
  9. Bantambird

    Wrath's Marans

  10. Bantambird

    Wrath's Marans

    I could always get you hooked on heritage turkeys. There is a distinctive lack of turkey breeders everywhere and I would like to encourage more of them.
  11. Bantambird

    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    This cockerel has a ways to grow, and it looks like a squabble took the front part of his comb, but his color is good and nice silver.
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Im guessing something to do with the recessive white?
  13. Bantambird

    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Isn't this white girl fantastic? She's the one that started out black silver 2 years ago. She molted out white, was the craziest thing.
  14. Bantambird

    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    I actually love the shape on that guy. He CHONKY. Nice tail angle, a bit of a halo on his hackle, though otherwise his copper is pretty good. He has a fold in his wattle, and I am not real keen on the comb. Is that a double point and a small thumbprint on the blade? Eye color should be brighter...
  15. Bantambird

    Feeding your LGD when you have turkeys

    Here is what I have had to do in the past in feeding a livestock guardian that guards poultry along with goats: I bring him meals 2 times a day. He eats the meal and I remove the bowl. If I did not do this with the younger one, he would get mad at the birds and eventually would guard his food...
  16. Bantambird

    Wrath's Marans

    when we find a breed and variety we really like, we get to gush over it. I would certainly get immediately annoyed if someone told me their generic variety bird was better, unless they could back it up. I have, in fact, gotten annoyed about it when people message me looking for black copper...
  17. Bantambird

    Wrath's Marans

    Glad you like. I get real nervous selling art, you never know if people appreciate living breathing works of art or if they just see a chicken.
  18. Bantambird

    Wrath's Marans

    that girl has some nice breast lacing. Juuuust right in the blue color with lacing.
  19. Bantambird

    Wrath's Marans

    I am glad you had a much better hatch this year. They all look pretty alright so far. Hope those tails settle down a little
  20. Bantambird

    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    This is the color of blue I've been angling for. What do you think?
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