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    Help!!! Mites? Lice?

    My turkey hen came home about 6 weeks ago with 11 babies. At about 3-4 weeks old, 9 of them died within a 24 hour period. They were in an outside brooder with the hen. The last two have been doing great and seemed to be growing well. This afternoon, I thought I would give momma a break from...
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    What am I doing wrong?

    Last year, a friend and I split an order of Royal Palm poults. I got 10 of them, but only 3 made it to adulthood. Several died as young poults, only a few weeks old, and at least one died because it chose to fly into my dog kennel as a juvenile. What I had left turned out to be two Toms and...
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    New coop, chickens dying!

    I recently built a new coop for most of my chickens. It is more sheltered, has electricity so I can plug in water heaters and coop heaters, and best of all, gets everyone in one place to make chores much easier. The coop consists of a duck pen which is 10x10 with a 5 x10 outdoor run (this...
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    Free ranging my ducks?

    My kids and I decided to try again with ducks this summer. Last year, we hatched out 3, and lost them when they were about 4 weeks old to some sort on infection, all within 24 hours of each other. We now have 1 mixed breed drake that we hatched out this spring, and the rest we purchased from...
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    Tumor on hen's head

    My Prim, a year old Buff Orpington, has developed a mass on the top of her head. I thought at first that it was just a fluid filled cyst (thought maybe the rooster bit her on the head and pulled her skin a bit), but it has been about 3 months and it has gotten bigger and more firm. It is at...
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    Young Tom and roosters??

    I got a 7 month old Tom about a month ago. He came from a place with a decent size flock, and now he is alone. He doesn't seem very happy about it. I am planning on getting some hatching eggs and hatching out a couple of girlfriends for him, but I don't even have the eggs yet. I also have...
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    Chicks hatched ubder my broody... Now what??

    I have two broody hens (BO's), sitting on 6 eggs each. The first one (Prim), had her eggs hatch yesterday and this morning. Six healthy chicks!!! My question is, now what?? She is keeping them nice and warm, and they poke their heads out occasionally. I put the hens in their own brooder...
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    My first attempt...

    I may be crazy, but I have a broody hen right now, so I'm going to try to let her hatch out some chicks! I live in Northern MN, so it's going to start getting real cold, real soon, but my coop is nice and warm, and one of my BO's has been broody for about 3-4 weeks now. I decided to let her...
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    Too late to raise chicks??

    I live in Northern MN. It has consistently been below freezing every morning for the past couple of weeks, and is usually getting into the 40's, but not always, during the day. This is my first winter with chickens, so we are making modifications to the coop as we go to make sure they are snug...
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    Only 7 eggs yesterday??

    I have a young flock that I brought up from chicks this spring. I have 6 BO, 4 Production Red, and 2 Black Australorps, so 12 total. They started laying a couple months ago and the daily egg count has been steadily growing ever since. A couple of weeks ago, I was getting 8-9 eggs/day...
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    Breeding turkeys?

    I raised two bronze turkeys this year for the first time and I really loved it... Right up to the killing of them. I've done some research now and have come up with a plan for butchering next year that won't be so traumatic for me or for the birds. I did get quite attached to them and really...
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    Butchered my turkeys today...

    I didn't like it... It was my first experience with turkeys, and I have only done 2 batches of chickens before. I found it much harder and more violent than the chickens. I was warned that their necks are much thicker than chickens so not to just try to cut them like we did the chickens...
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    My chicken plucker!!

    I finally got my chicken plucker video on You tube! The quality is kind of questionable because I ended up videoing the video off of my computer from Facebook... It distorted terribly when my Dad tried to send it to me... My Father-in-law built this for me (with some help from my...
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    Second batch of meatys in the freezer...

    I posted earlier about my one meaty that died the day before we planned to butcher. We buthchered yesterday and the rest of them made it, but one couldn't walk yesterday morning. I think he may have fought with another one of the roosters and broke his leg. I processed him first. My FIL and...
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    I lost a meaty bird today...

    My CX are 3 months old and I wanted to butcher them a month ago. This is my second batch. My first batch I processed at 8 weeks. We borrowed a bench style plucker from a friend and decided that I wanted a barrel style. I ordered the plans and my father-in-law started to build it. I had planned...
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    My young rooster attacked my 10 year old son!

    I was just reading another thread on this subject, so I hope I handled it the right way... A few days ago, I was standing in the door of the coop facing out and I felt something hit my legs, then my 5 month old rooster "Rosco" flew past my legs and out into the run. I thought to myself, "Did...
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    All my friends think I'm the crazy chicken lady...

    because I am so fascinated with my chickens and their behavior... They just started laying about 2 1/2 weeks ago, and I am getting about 3 eggs a day from 12 hens, so I have been on a quest to see who is laying. My daughter and I looked at their vents and placed our best guesses. Yesterday...
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    Do I need to keep them cooped up??

    I have 12 pullets... 6 BO, 4 Production Reds, and 2 Black Australorps. They are about 4 1/2 months old now and some of them have started laying. (Does that officially make them hens??) I know for a fact that at least one of the PR's is laying because she laid an egg right in my son's hand! I...
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    Sex of my bronze turkeys??

    They are 14 weeks old in this picture. The one on the right has a much larger snood, much more red. The one on the left just has a tiny one, and it is usually light pink or grey. The one with the larger snood is much more aggressive towards the dogs. Aggressive isn't really the right word...
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    My poor hen...

    I have two bronze turkeys that are 3 1/2 months old. I bought them as babies, intending to raise them and butcher them for Christmas and Thanksgiving, hence their names are Christmas and Thanksgiving... I'm pretty sure at this point that Christmas is a tom and Thanksgiving is a hen. He has a...
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