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I have 7 turkeys. I had 8, but one of my heritage bronze died after about 2 weeks. The grain store I buy my chicks from said that most of the heritage didn't look to healthy when they arrived from the hatchery, so I figured that was what happened to that one. My turkeys are 8...
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I had a broody hen just hatch 2 little chicks from fertile eggs from another farm. She is separated with her two little chicks from the rest of the flock. Typically, how long before she will start laying eggs again?
Thanks.
Mike
Hi everyone! I had a RIR go broody, but at the time we had no roosters. So I bought some fertile eggs from a local farm and set 9 eggs under my broody hen. Well today was day 21 and some of the eggs are starting to hatch. She gets very disturbed when I try to look under her in the nest box...
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I have 3 Aracauna chicks that are 3 weeks old. 2 of them are much bigger than the other, but all were born and purchased on the same day. We had them sharing a brooder with some White Leghorns that are 5 weeks old. Yesterday I moved the white leghorns into a different brooder. I...
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This is our first time hatching eggs. We bought a dozen and a half eggs from a chicken swap and set them on Sunday March 21. We also tried setting some of our own eggs that we were sure were probably not fertile (bantam roo, Angus, RIP) with full sized hens. But figured it was worth a...
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We have our turkeys in a pen in our barn right now until I finish building them a more permanet home. They are only about 6 weeks old. I was wondering if I let the turkeys out during the day, will they come in at night like my chickens do? This is my first time with turkeys and...
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we have 12 RIR that I bought from the local grain store, but we picked up 4 more at a chicken swap this past weekend.
#1's name is Grasshopper. We are told that he is a Roo, but no idea what kind of chicken
#2's name is Bunny and we are told she is a hen, but also no idea what kind of...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
My wife has had chickens before when she was a child, but I am new to raising chickens. We got twelve Rhode Island Red pullet chicks last week on Tuesday. We also picked up 4 chicks that are a little older at the chicken swap at...