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    Ranger type meat birds

    I have done the Colored Ranger thing, and while the results were fantastic, I would like to try another breed this year. Sometime in the last year, there was mention of a strain that is raised, I believe, by someone in Pennsylvania who has no online presence: you have to call and ask for a price...
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    How do you keep your turkeys home?

    I live in Maine, and we have lots of wild turkeys (who appear, sometimes, to be saying to my flock, "Come camp out with us!!") Also, we have lots of field and woods. My Bourbon Reds free-range, within an electric poultry fence. EXCEPT - they readily fly over the fence. I have one year-old hen...
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    Processing question

    The last couple of times we have processed Freedom Rangers, using our very best technique (bled well, scalded, plucked in a whiz-bang plucker, then into ice water), there has been some discolored (honestly, dark gray) tissue in the area around the butt. I am really, really careful about...
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    Thoughts on unexplained death in Freedom Rangers

    Hello - I have Freedom Rangers from Freedom Ranger Hatchery (used to be JM, but a son took over the FR end of things, I think). They were hatched 5/11, and received in good health on 5/13. Since then they have been on Poulin Quick Grow Broiler Crumbles, with the addition of some Turkey/game...
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    Turkey poult question

    I have a turkey hen who is setting, but I have my doubts about whether any of the eggs will hatch (I know, I'm a bad mommy, and too distracted to keep track of time and/or candling). My question is this: if I buy a few poults from a local source, and stick them under the setting hen, would she...
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    How to choose?

    I have 5 Bourbon Reds, 3 toms and 2 hens. I would like to try breeding them, however, seems like I have 2 toms too many. Does anyone have any suggestions about how to choose the best male to keep? They're still maturing, so ideal breed characteristics are not quite in evidence yet, but I'm...
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    slipped tendon/perosis

    Hi all - I have a 3-4 week old Bourbon Red who's been limping for the past few days; I suspected slipped tendon, but could not isolate the tendon until this morning and yep, that's what it is. I see that some people use vetwap, with or without cotton-swab splints, to hold the tendon in place...
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    How long to wait?

    My broody hen started a clutch (eggs collected from the various hens) on 8/25. I expected chicks on 9/15, but when I got home from a trip on 9/14, two had hatched already! Now I have 5 chicks, and 5 unhatched eggs - by my count, it is day 23. The chicks have food and water, and seem to be fine...
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    new 8-week old guineas

    I bought 5 young guineas for a pretty good price at a local ChickenStock. They've been here for about 10 days, and are becoming accustomed to me. I've been keeping them in an A-frame chicken tractor originally built for 8 laying hens. The guineas were raised with chickens. My questions: how...
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    Cackling roo

    I love hearing my hens cackle, even if they often seem to be making things up - "I sat in the nest box for a while, and then I felt like getting up, so I must have laid an egg, so BukBukB'gawk!!" Often my roo starts cackling along with the hen(s) - does anyone else's roo do this? It gets pretty...
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    Feed for chicks

    I have 5 one-week-old beautiful mutt chicks (EE daddy, various mommies), brooded by my white rock. I have not kept anybody separate from the rest of the flock, except for chick-only access to the starter feed. Here's my question: Mommy bird seems to be encouraging the chicks to eat under the...
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