I'm thinking about adding some khaki cambell ducks to my small flock of laying chickens (all hens, no roosters). My chickens free-range and have a barn to go into to get out of bad weather. The pasture is surrounded by 4-6 foot high fencing, and I've NEVER had a chicken fly out of my yard...
So I ended up with a "lost and found" turkey Friday evening..... I have chickens but this is my only turkey. All free-range, and I leave out Chicken Layer Crumbles for my chick hens.
Is it okay for the turkey to eat the same foods as the chickens? I feed my chooks kitchen scraps, layer...
So I've ended up with a lost-and-found turkey..... a young Royal Palm hen (thanks to the fine folks here at BYC for helping me ID her!).
I've got laying hens - chickens - and now one turkey. So do I need to buy a different kind of food for the turkey or can she just eat the layer crumbles...
So my next door neighbor rang my doorbell last night and asked me if I was missing a turkey. I told him that I only have chickens, not turkeys....and we walked over to see this on his front porch:
It let me catch it and I put it out in my barnyard (the neighbor didn't know what else to do...
I have a flock of 18 that all hatched the first week of August 2009. Of course the two chicks that are my favorites - a gorgeous white EE and a stunning black and green mixed breed - both turned out to be roos
So how much trouble am I going to have with 2 roos and 16 hens in my flock? They...
Ok, so I have a hole in my head
A friend of mine offered to hatch some chicks out for me a while back - his friend has an incubator and was getting ready to do a batch of his own. But then my friend told me a few weeks back that it looked like all of his eggs were duds...so I ordered my...
I got a call from the post office around 10 this morning that my chicks had arrived. Of course, it was a very busy day at work, so I couldn't leave so I told the postal worker I'd get there when I could. Well, at 1:30 he calls me back and tells me that the chicks are very loud and they would...
I got my MM order today.... I was supposed to get EE, RIR, and one free "exotic chick of their choosing".
So I know who the EE's are, and I know who the RIR's are, but there are two chicks who look different. Of course, I also ordered 25 chicks and got 30, so its possible I guess that they...
Hey all! I'm getting my first chicks in about 2 weeks from McMurray - 23 Araucana females and 2 RIR males.
I know its a bit late in the year to get started with chicks, but I just moved cross-country (from Virginia to Utah) and I just got here a few weeks ago. I've been doing a TON of...