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    when can baby turkeys eat scratch?

    when can a young turkey be given scratch as a treat? can they have mealworms? they are pets and heritage red breasted turkeys
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    female display?

    this turkey was more or less a rescue. was told she was a she and that she sometimes laid eggs was a year old. have had her for 3 months , now she has been strutting showing her tail feathers, is she a he? i am enclosing pictures
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    wierd feathers

    can anyone tell me why my 5\6 week old baby turkeys have such rough looking feathers? i feed them 30% protien game chick starter. v they are kept in a 2 x 3 x 18 in tall brooder at 80 degrees. they seem ok other wise runnng around and play scratching at the bottom of cage. should i be worried?
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    limping hen

    PLEASE HELP my turkey hen limps on her left foot been 3 days used magnifying glass but saw nothing she digs at bottom of foot but not in any one place, pic on left is of injured foot on the rt is the healthy one
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    limping hen

    My 1 yr old rose breasted hen suddenly had a bad limp and is digging at bottom of left foot. as you know its very hard to hold a turkey that does not wish to be held. had 2 friends help but even with magnifier could see nothing wrong. am sending 2 pics one of affected left ft and 1 of rt foot...
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    turkey not eating

    she is in a smaller coop than before could that be the reason? she will nibble food from my hand. she is also listless. she sits on her roost and closes her eyes. help me please
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    swollen toe

    i found blood on the coop floor and my white leghorn had blood on her foot. after cleaning it off i found this swollen toe. yesterday she seemed fine. now she limps sending photos would be thankful for any insight thanks wes
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    wierd

    hi i have 6 very lovely and graceful hens. but i also have Boo, she is 30 % larger than her sisters. she seems to forget that she is sleeping on a roost, she will fall off at least one a week. also she is a very clumsy flier. when the others think she is going to take flight they flee. i swear...
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    chickens christmas stocking?

    does anyone know what to put in my hens christmas stocking?
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    rubbery eggs

    please help! not sure if one of my hens is ill or not. i have 4 hens all hatched in early july. The 2 easter eggers started laying about 4 weeks ago. a week latter my 2 black hens layed , but only one of the black ones continued to lay. but one of the black ones didnt lay for a week, and then...
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    egg size difference

    hi my 8 month old easter egger just started laying eggs one every other day. what worries me is the large egg size difference i am sending pic. the first one was small, the next 2 large and today a small one. i feed them purina laying pellets plus give them oyster shell. they free range for...
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    chicken tan lines??

    hi I have an easter egger hen c that likes to sun by laying n her side and kinda lifting her wing. She does it equally on both sides. My question is, do chickens worry about tan lines/
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    avacado tree leaves

    my chickens eat the leaves from avacado trees, live in the middle of 5 acre avacado ranch.they been doing it vfor a month and they seem healthy should i stop them from free ranging? wes
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    avacados

    hi i just found out that chickens cannot eat avacados. but what about the leaves of the trees? i live smack dab in the middle of a 5 acre avacado ranch. i started letting them roam about a month ago, they constantly munch the leaves. are they also bad? they seem healthy. please help me wes
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    san diego area any chicks for sale?

    hi i live in sd i know about the quarintine but was wondering if anyone knew of a breeder or hatchery here? i believe you can still buy as long as they are not imported? thanks
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    trophys awarded

    ok do i need to build a trophy case? or are these just e-tropohys? lol it is a nice thing and very clever thanks love this web site wes
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    need advice

    i rescued these 4 bantams and 2 easter egg layers they are i think 2 or 3 months old. never raised chickens but couldnt let them be put down. (long mean story) i built these 2 coops or whatever for them. the easter eggers did ot get along with the 4 bantams so. so this was about the best i...
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