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  1. HennyJenny

    Anyone ever made Weasel Sets? *Descriptions a little graphic*

    I've got a fricken weasel. In the last two days I've lost seven of my four month olds. It has to be a weasel. Last night it killed six in one night. The babies got chased out of the big coop and were sleeping in the old little coop. I didn't think too much of it. It just has a piece of...
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    I know this makes me crazy but I'm going to ask anyway

    So - I have seven broad breasted white turkeys. They eat copius amounts of feed and their live weight right now is between 25 and 30 pounds. Here's my dilemma: I like these birds. I like these birds a lot. I can't help it. They make me laugh. To compound my "issues" the other day I saw a...
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    The Great Turkey Escape of 2010

    I was late getting home from work and I looked out the back door to see who the escapees are for the day (several can figure out how to get out but not get back in so their are 3 or 4 on the outside figuring out how to get in and 30 some odd on the inside mad because they aren't out) these are...
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    Poor Turkey

    I like all my birds and I do what I think is best to protect them but I have lost a few to area dogs here and there and few to my own dog over the last few years and I'm getting to where I can take care of a mean rooster without much but a thanks to the universe for a fine bird. These upset me...
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    Is this love or jealousy?

    The older my bourbon red gets the more jealous he appears to get. If I'm holding a hen that isn't one of his babies he gets upset and when I put her down, he chases her. (You can imagine the girls are starting to get a little leary of me). The other day my husband joined me in my daily...
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    I am just sick and sad....

    I just had to cull a five week old turkey poult due to severe spraddle leg. I am just sick and I am so sad that I had to do it. I hope to God I don't have to do it again for a long time. I am just teary eyed sad - I just don't get that way. I'm just needed to whine outloud I guess. Jenny
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    Hoop Coop Predator - what is it?

    My neighbor and I are raising cornish x - they are about 4.5 to 5 weeks old. There are six BBW turkeys in with them that are a week younger. Last Sunday we moved them into a hoop coop in the pasture from a cattle tank in her barn. She was out of town and her daughter called me the other night...
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    Rooster Decisions - I have too many and know nothing! - Please Help!

    I have some dilemnas. 11 of them in fact. 1 Partridge Rock Roo (Hatchery) - Two Partridge Rock Hens (All from the same hatchery) 3 Buff Orp Roos (Hatchery) - 3 Buff Orp Hens plus 6 chicks of unknown gender from four different hatcheries. 2 BCM Roos (Hatchery via TSC) - 2 BCM hens I hatched 3...
  9. HennyJenny

    Need a little advice and direction.

    So I have a turkey poult who is about six weeks old. He has been raised with the two chicks he was hatched with. A lttle later - I added two BCMs and they are about three weeks old. This make up what Kramer considers to be his flock. I have three more Bourbon Reds coming next week but it's...
  10. HennyJenny

    box of fuzzy adorable cuteness.....

    I opened my box of 22 Cornish X and my 6 BO's from Welp this morning and was just appalled at the fuzzy adorable cuteness in the box. I thought - oh no! they can't be cute - this won't work - then I fed them... they are less than 24 hours old (Welp is just a few hours east of here) and they...
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    Silver Grey Dorking Roo - Anyone know anything about them?

    This is Worzel - he's about 13 to 14 weeks old. He doesn't look like any picture I've seen of Silver Grays - Is he going to? Im wondering if he's eventually going to feather out correctly or if this is it. These are my first dorkings and the hens at this age look just like every picture I've...
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    I need birds and the bees information!

    So my husband is going to kill me but I saw something today that made me curious - my lovely BO Blondie seems to be a cougar. She's being a bit of a floozie with a teenage BO roo. Since I have never had roosters before it is all new to me. Not quite as violent as I had imagined and my little...
  13. HennyJenny

    What am I??

    What the heck are they? I bought them at tractor supply - they are just huge! I originally thought they were black sex-link hens but they exhibit all the symptoms of being roos. They have both always been bigger than all of my other birds the same age. about 13 weeks old - about two to three...
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    Funny Chicken Math

    Tonight I heard one crabby husband tell the neighbor "She must have 20 chickens in there!!! You should bring your grandaughter down to see them" (this was as he was handing our neighbor a dozen eggs). I'm just going to cross my fingers that the neighbor can't count either....
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    Not only can turkeys fly...

    they can swim! Kramer has decided in the last week to act like he's about 25 pounds bigger than he actually is. My current roo count is somewhere around 11 or 12 and he is busy managing and challenging all of them. Tonight he went running after one - started flapping his wings and accidently...
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    The Roo Count Rises - so do the breed questions - PICTURES!

    Hatchery Roo Count 4 Silver Gray Dorkings - 1 Roo on purpose 3 Partridge Rocks - 1 Roo 3 Delawares - 1 possible Roo 4 Australorps - 1 Roo 2 Barred Rocks - 1 Roo 4 Silver Penciled Rocks - 1 Roo 3 Buff Orps - 0 Roos 3 Silver Laced Wyandottes - 1 possible Roo My Hatch Roo Count 2 Black Copper...
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    question about curled toes - interesting new piece of information

    I hatched two batches of Barnevelders from the same parent stock. The eggs were shipped. I have three females and two males. There is one male from each hatch. Neither of the males appeared to have curled toes when they hatched. However they both have severely curled toes now. It doesn't...
  18. HennyJenny

    Help! Spraddle leg and curled toes!

    I have a 2 day old with severe spraddle leg and curled toes. I understand the mechanics of what I can do - shoe boots splits - but I have a couple of concerns that I don't really see anywhere else. I'll start by saying other than the leg issues this is a very vigorous chick but it is a very...
  19. HennyJenny

    Balding Poult

    So - I have a three week old Bourbon Red - Kramer. Kramer's fuzz on his head is falling off in little pieces revealing what I am guessing will be his lovely bald dome - I have gently ignored the aesthetics of this until today - now I've decided to ask "this is normal right?" - Kramer was the...
  20. HennyJenny

    Coop - SOOO CLOSE TO DONE - I moved the babies in! Thank you EVERYONE!

    I'm soo close! I have tar paper on the roof - didn't get the shingles on today and I have a lot of trim work to do but here it is!!! All of the advice, encouragement and help I got on here was invaluable!! Thank you all! Jenny
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