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    turkey genetics advice - Narragansett and Blue Slate crosses.

    my flock of turkeys is currently 4 Narragansett (3 boys, 1 girl) and 4 Blue Slate (2 girls, 2 boys). I'm trying to decide which ones will be turned into turkey dinner on the 23rd, and which will be breeding stock for next years turkey dinners. Weight doesn't matter as much to me as the pretty...
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    Pullet foot stuck in a string, hung upside down, now can't walk

    My 9 week old cuckoo maran pullet got her foot stuck in a thin nylon rope that was hanging a toy in their brooder and ended up hanging upside down from her foot. My husband found her and said she was hanging there, looking dead. When he went to get her down, she was very much not dead. The rope...
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    back plucked bare in a couple hours.

    This is bound to be long, sorry. :) We have 19 chicks, all 6.5 weeks old. They have been living inside the house until today when they moved out to the garage. For the last two weeks they haven't had a heat lamp because we keep the house at about 70. However, we found that they were afraid of...
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    Do you think they're cold?

    My babies are 3.5 weeks old, and they seem to be blowing all the suggested temps out of the water. They already have very little supplemental heat, the bulb they have is 13W and it's 4 ft from the ground, so there is very little heat coming off of it for them, it's mostly for the light. This was...
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    Chicks panting and not moving to cooler area

    I have 20 week and a half chicks. The two biggest ones will start panting when they're all sleeping carpet style (all together but not on top of each other), but they don't move over to the cooler side of the brooder. I have a series of boxes connected with doors that is about 5 feet long (man...
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    I think I'm crazy!

    So, we just got our first order or chicks this morning and I'm obsessed. We have 10 Ameraucana/EEs and 10 unknowns. We ordered from ideal and assumed we:D'd get packing peanuts that would ultimately be dinners. We haven't finished the coop or chicken run yet. I haven't got any clue what we're...
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