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    Questions about a very late bloomer possible Tom turkey

    My son is sending me a photo to include. We hatched turkey poults out all last summer. Come the fall and we sold off the extra males and then lost the remaining breeding stock males to a pack of nasty dogs. So we wound up traveling to another state to obtain a male turkey for this year. We could...
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    Sexing Buff Orpingtons

    I've been breeding and raising Buff Orpinton Chickens for a few years now. Some people are really good at sexing the newborns, but others like me can't get the knack or they have something that is a roadblock. I have essential tremors pretty bad. I'd probably seriously injure any baby chick I...
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    Sebastopol geese via momma hatched and not incubator hatched.

    We raise chickens turkeys and geese. We've pretty much figured out nesting behaviors of chickens and turkeys but our geese are having a rough time of it. I know first year Sebastopol egg laying is usually a wash but we did get one super healthy adorable little girl to hatch out. I can hatch them...
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    Roosters who don't understand no means NO!

    I had to deal with a most aggressive rooster who was coercing a few of the hens who did not wish to partake in mating and simply ignored those who really desired to get their eggs fertilized. He wasn't going to take no for an answer. This was demoralizing the girls as a flock. We allowed him to...
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    Midget White Turkey's strange behavior

    I hatched out 3 batches of Midget White Turkey Eggs. My first batch were born April and another batch a couple weeks later and a third smaller batch early summer. They are all big enough to be grouped together. The males ratio to females is 3 to 1, luck of the draw I guess. We had to separate...
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    Have three sets of Midget White turkeys to integrate of varying ages

    I have a batch of 9 Midget white turkeys born April 16th that have been in their own home for weeks and are developing gender characteristics. I have a 2nd batch of 9 born June 1st that I would love to add to them but they are so little compared to the older ones and I'm afraid of bullying . I...
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    keeping weak newborn goslings alive

    I'm adding Sebastopols to my waterfowls. I raise Buff Orpington ducks. I read up on hatching out the Sabastopols because they are expensive with a limited laying season and I wanted to keep gosling losses down to a minimum. I also wanted genetic diversity so I ordered three batches of eggs from...
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    About Selling Fertile Eggs

    I started hatching out chicks to sell to help pay for the feeds of all my flocks. This is the time of year to be doing that but it will close off the end of April as most people will have their flocks assembled for the summer season. I wanted to sell fertile eggs instead of chicks because some...
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    Can I give my turkey a bath?

    I have two BB white turkey poults that are about 5 weeks old. One of them made a lot of potty on the other bird and that poor bird is just nasty looking. I'd like to give it a bath. Can we bath turkeys? Will it make my bird sick? I was thinking of bathing it in warm water and towel drying it...
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