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  1. SandyC

    Any Military Chicken Lovers Near Vicenza, Italy?

    I'm moving there shortly and was wondering if you can keep chickens there? Here's to hoping!
  2. SandyC

    Tom Needs an Attitude Ajustment! Question on Tom Turkey Behavior...

    I have a 3 yo Bourbon Red Tom. His mate was killed last year, so he rules over a bunch of assorted chicken hens. Over the last week or so he has started to challenge me a bit. Nothing too bad that a 2x4 doesn't fix. Is he getting more aggressive due to spring coming on and will he get worse...
  3. SandyC

    Have any of you ever made turkey sausage?

    I'm not much of a meat eater...actually, I don't eat it at all, but I feed some to my family. I would like to raise some turkeys next year and have some of it made into turkey sausage. I discovered the other day, when I cooked one of my extra roosters that the meat was VERY lean and I would...
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    I Have Four Broodies Sitting Together on Two Nests...

    With a ton of eggs underneath them. They are due to hatch at any time. Can I put all the moms and all the chicks together in one area?
  5. SandyC

    Does Very Warm Weather Bring on Broodiness????

    We are in the midst of a heat wave here in the NE and I suddenly have 3 broody chickens!!!!! Two are in the same nest and one in another nest. Is this normal? I'm running out of nest space!!!!!
  6. SandyC

    Does Very Warm Weather Bring on Broodiness????

    We are in the midst of a heat wave here in the NE and I suddenly have 3 broody chickens!!!!! Two are in the same nest and one in another nest. Is this normal? I'm running out of nest space!!!!!
  7. SandyC

    Will Human Urine deter a fox???

    I am having fox problems. The latest attack was today and then I spotted the pesky creature watching me from the edge of my woods, likely hoping to come back for more. I have been free ranging for a long time now, with few problems, but now in the last couple of weeks, I have lost 3 chickens...
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    Cranberry IS a MOTHER!!!!! Questions on Turkeys Raising their Own

    I have had awful luck hatching my own eggs, so I decided to let my Bourbon Red Hen alone when she dissappeared. We found her nest and today, I saw her, with POULTS!!!! They must have just hatched today or last evening. Now like I said, my experience has been terrible raising baby turkeys. I...
  9. SandyC

    Broody Buff Orpington...In January!!!!

    Hi, I went out to gather eggs today and my Buff Orpington was sitting in a box on an egg she had to have laid late yesterday or today and when I tried to get her off of it, she pecked and threw a fit. Now I live in Northern NY...spring is still 3-4 months away. Does it make any point letting...
  10. SandyC

    Getting a Pair of Bourbon Reds...Introducing to the Flock Questions

    Hi, I am getting a pair of Bourbon Reds this weekend from a local person. They are lovely and healthy looking, a hen and a tom and have been free ranged and well cared for. I am introducing them into my flock of hens, one rooster and one lonely Royal Palm hen. I was thinking, that I would...
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    Not Sure Where to Post This...Best Type of Dog to be Around Chickens..

    Calling all you dog owners....what is the best type of dog to have around chickens? I'm thinking Border Collie, Basset Hound, maybe Lab? Any other suggestions?
  12. SandyC

    Day 21 and I Have Pipping!!!

    I have 7 Blue Rock eggs in the incubator and two have started pipping. I haven't had good luck with hatching in the past, but I have been so careful this time. Any tips for the final wait??????
  13. SandyC

    Why Are There So Many Irresponsible Dog Owners...Another Turkey Killed

    One of my pet Royal Palms was killed by a dog today. I wish that I'd of had a .22! We never had stray dogs in our area until the last year and it seems that a bunch of irresponsible idiots that don't know the meaning of the words, "Leash law" moved in. My poor turkey. She was so nice.
  14. SandyC

    My Lone Little Bourbon Red Poult Died

    It seemed fine this morning and I went in to check on it this evening and found it dead. I don't think it was gone for that long. I just cried. I don't think I have the heart for hatching and new poults as cute as they are. I think here on out, I will get poults a little older after they...
  15. SandyC

    The Turkeys Are Hatching!!!!! Update...Need Advise! **** Picture!!!

    I wasn't expecting anything for another day or two, but at about 1 am, one of my night owl teens woke me to say that I had a baby turkey!!! There is another egg that has started, but the first on keeps crashing into it and rolling it all around. I hope it will hatch OK. There are 15 eggs in...
  16. SandyC

    Can You Trim off the spurs on roosters?

    I have two Appenzellar Spitzhaben roosters that have never shown any aggression towards me, or anyone else for that matter, that are a year old now and have developed some pretty impressive spurs that are a little intimidating. Is it possible to cut them off without hurting the bird...like...
  17. SandyC

    Free Ranging Turkey, Raising Poults Free Ranged?

    Has anyone done this or is it a certain death sentence for the poults? One of my Royal Palms has been sitting on a nest for about 28 days on the edge of our woods. If the eggs were fertile (I heard a wild tom in the woods just before she nested...I have no tom) they are about ready for hatch...
  18. SandyC

    Two of my Turkeys brooding together hatched one little chicken chick!

    My son stuck some chicken eggs under my brooding turkeys and one of them hatched! The sweet little baby is about a day or two old. I put her in the brooder, but I worry about her being lonely. Do you think she will be OK? I am getting some chicks that were hatched early this week, next week...
  19. SandyC

    My Turkeys Hatched a Chick!!!!

    You might remember about a month ago, I posted that I had broody turkeys and that my son stuck some chicken eggs under then. Well, I thought that Sunday was about the time they should have hatched by. I chased the turkeys (there are two of them there) off the nest and saw no sign of pipping or...
  20. SandyC

    I Just starting incubating 15 turkey eggs....

    A mix of Royal Palms and Bourbon Reds (thank you Steve...they arrived in beautiful shape). Now the waiting begins! My goal is to get a tom of each and a few BR hens. I will likely sell the others. I love having the turkeys! I hope this works!
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