Hello everyone. I have a 6-month turkey. She is a bbb and weighs about 20 lbs. I love her so much, but she tries to get into everything. I never let her free-range unless I am present, because she constantly tries to eat non-edible things and unfortunately our backyard has a lot of random pieces...
I have a 5-month-old ameraucauna rooster. His name is Beau. He's a very sweet guy and i love him a lot.
About 2 months ago, we noticed him not closing his beak fully and some head shaking. I looked in his throat, worried he had gape worms, and instead saw what I thought maybe was a little...
Hello everyone. I looked in our 14-week-old rooster's mouth two days ago and noticed he had some yellowish stuff in the back of his throat. We were not sure if it was food (looked sort of like cracked corn) or something like canker. We often see him with his beak slightly open, and lately...
Hello everyone! I live in Prunedale, CA, in northern Monterey County. We have been keeping poultry since February. We have sandy soil, but it is very fine and silty. It produces a fine dust that coats everything. We have two coops in our backyard that we built. Each one is a rectangle and has...
Hello! Any turkey owners out there that have dealt with blackhead? I am wondering if I could ask you about your experience. My main question is this: I have heard it mostly said that turkeys can easily get reinfected with blackhead even once they had it since they will continue coming into...
Hello everyone. I have 2 ameraucauna chicks, a hen and a roo, and a bb bronze turkey that were all raised together. I have had them since they were a day old. They are 13 weeks. We transitioned them outside into a coop a few weeks back (kept them inside longer than normal to help the turkey...
Hello everyone, my bbb turkey is almost 9 weeks old. It has been very healthy and happy. We are about to transition the turkey and chicks outside with our other chickens but at the moment they are still in a very large tent/play run inside. We use puppy pads to line the bottom so we can clean...
Hello everyone. I just joined BYC. Anyone here live in Monterey County? I live in Prunedale very close to Aromas and San Juan Bautista. I have 3 laying hens that a friend gave us a month ago. We have a nice coop for them in the backyard with a run and let them free range every day for at least...