My RIR rooster has a swollen foot. I bought him last fall as a mature rooster and he came out of a pen of mature breding roosters. At first I thought he had gotten hurt in a fight. He seemed to do alright, I bred him to several RIWs and RIRs, hatched out chicks. Over the winter his foot is...
I have a hen who has been sitting for a month now. No eggs under her. I understand that she is broody, wants to raise some chicks, but for this long??? Does anyone know of a cure for broody hens. I have about four that are wanting to sit now. HELP!!!
I have four turkeys I purchased at the elevator in April, two BB and twoBW. They are about three months old and pretty big! Does age have anything to do with the toughness? I thought I read somewhere that they should be about 20 weeks old before butchering. Any help is greatly appreciated:)
I have about 50 slow broilers which I intend to butcher at ten weeks. The problem is I also have regular roosters, Doms, Delewares, RIR, dual purpose birds, that I want to butcher at the same time. As you can imagine they are about half the size.Just how old are you suppose to let your birds get...
Chicks Hatched With Guts Out HELP! Thanks to all that responded. Humidity seems to have been my biggest problem, I got caught up with the air space and didn't pay enough attention to the humidity. Don't know where I got the idea but I thought too much humidity would drown them, go figure.
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This year I picked up four turkeys at the local elevator, two white, two bronze. I brooded them in the kitchen in a lage plastic tub for about a week and then in the garage for another three, then I turned them out in a fenced area with a little coop I built. They seem to be thriving, Now here...
This is a FYI I live in Davison Michigan and recently recieved several orders of chicks. I got forty from Murray McMurray two extras and a free rare chick, 120 from Welp, 1 extra for every 25 broilers and one extra for every seperate breed, 75 from Ideal, no extras, two dead in order fivemore...