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  1. ShadyHoller

    Is this Marek's? [link to video]

    Hello all, thanks in advance for helping me understand what's going on here. I've posted a video to YouTube that shows two young roosters who are very wobbly on their feet. They also have a strange wide-eyed appearance. I have seen some very orange runny droppings in their coop. The bird...
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    emaciated, but otherwise healthy-seeming hen

    Hi all. Apologies in advance for a question that surely has already been asked. I just can't seem to find it. Here's what I've got: a year-old buff orpington hen who has been skinny for a long time, and who is gradually getting skinnier and skinnier. She is now about the size of a pigeon...
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    Hens stopped laying - mystery?

    (First, my apologies for asking a question that I'm sure has already been answered somewhere in the archives) A month ago, our hens took a break from laying when we had our only real heat wave for an otherwise colder-than-than normal summer. (Yeah, I know, most of the country was scorched...
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    How long can a broody turkey hen be off the eggs?

    I posted this same question on the turkey page, but I'm anxious for some info, and so I am double-posting it here. (Sorry, and thanks!) Our broody BR hen has spent the last 25 days (or so) on the nest. She has been very faithful to her project. Yesterday, I put a low board across the floor...
  5. ShadyHoller

    How long can a broody hen get off her eggs?

    I know this question has been asked, but I searched the forum and can't find the answer. Our broody BR hen has spent the last 25 days (or so) on the nest. She has been very faithful to her project. Yesterday, I put a low board across the floor of the coop, to act as a partition that would...
  6. ShadyHoller

    Little rototillers!

    These aren't meatbirds, in the strict sense of the word (although every bird at our place becomes a meatbird in the end). I just thought I'd share a picture of happy chickens... after a few months of rain and mud, nothing is tastier than a freshly tilled bed of chopped up worms! I don't...
  7. ShadyHoller

    Growing our own feed, question on protein... peas?

    I'm posting this question here, rather than in the "feeding and watering your flock" thread, because it's a meat-bird specific question, and everyone here has always shared helpful advice with me. We have been buying whole grain feed (wheat berries, mostly) from a local farmer, and, in our...
  8. ShadyHoller

    Encouraging a turkey hen to go broody

    As I'm sitting here watching it rain, I start day-dreaming about spring, and with that comes ideas about hatching out turkeys. My question is: how hard is it to convince a hen to go broody? We have three BR hens who will be a year old this spring. They have already surprised us with a few...
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    How much fat should be on a turkey?

    We slaughtered 3 turkeys this weekend, and it all went according to plan. We now have three very presentable carcasses dry-aging. I was really surprised at how much fat was in the birds. They are BRs that we got in the end of April, so I think that makes them 7 months old. They were obese...
  10. ShadyHoller

    This introduction is maybe a little late...

    Hello, all. I've been meaning to do this for a while. I have been avidly reading BYC for a while now, but hadn't ever joined in the discussion because I was new to the whole forum thing and was feeling shy. A few weeks ago we came home and found a sick turkey, and we couldn't figure out what...
  11. ShadyHoller

    Turkey with bad case of pox? (picture)

    Hi everyone, I'm new at posting here, but am not new at hanging around BYC and reading other peoples' posts. I already posted this question at the emergencies/diseases topic, but the discussion went kind of dead there. I didn't want to annoy the people there by bumping my own question up to...
  12. ShadyHoller

    sick turkey: seeking diagnosis (with picture)

    Hello all. Brief intro: my wife and I consult BYC very, very often, but have never had the need to overcome our chatroom shyness until now. Unfortunately, we just came home from a week on the road and discovered one very, very sad Bourbon Red turkey. His head is covered in blue/black leathery...
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