Just wanted to say on the whole turkey egg hatching thing...I'm hooked! We set our first clutch of eggs and had 15 hatch! We we're so excited. Heard a lot of failure stories especially from locals and hardly anyone is selling poults around here so I wasn't extremely optimistic but I just...
I have a couple questions:
First, my hens are laying their eggs outside along the woodline. They prefer this over a nesting box it seems. I've been collecting their eggs to incubate and leaving the oldest ones out there to keep them laying in the same spot because its hard to find their nests...
I am having a pretty tough time telling whether or not my 4 blue slate turkeys are male or female, going off of the typical things to look for...
They're 4 months old on the 1st of Sept.
But trying to get front view, side shot, and behind photos that are in focus is proving to be harder than...
This morning while checking on the 5 week old chicks I noticed a very bloody dropping. (Not on medicated feed). Everyone was acting fine for the most part. I took them one by one and treated with toltrazuril orally because its what I had (brand name is usually baycox, but this is the 5% solution...
Hi all!
Today I went to pick up 5 blue slate poults. They hatched 1st week of May and have been with their mommas until today. I've had chickens, guineas, quail, and ducks but it seems each animal comes with its own learning curve.
Going into buying i wasn't sure if I was going to get newly...
Hey all! I posted back in February about plans to build a 10x10 coop for a place to brood chicks, grow out, and other miscellaneous projects. It took a while for the plan to come to fruition, but we're finally getting there. We still have a lot to do but here's some progress pictures
These are...
My husband is going to build me a 10'x10' "brooder shed" if you will, because he's made the garage off limits for my chickens 😬.
And thats the dimensions we have the materials for.
In my head I'm thinking there will be a dividing wall in the middle covered in chicken wire with a door, to make a...
Excited to be here!
I've been raising coturnix quail on and off for the past 4 years and dived into chicken keeping last spring.
Learned a lot that first year and am hoping to get more serious this year as I expand!
I'm hoping by being here I can learn more off of others experiences and...