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    Silkies...ugh...

    So we have a mixed flock of about 40 birds sharing a run, out of those birds we have a buff brahma roo and a white silkie roo. We have several silkies (around 8 that are black and buff in color) who we were trying to breed but it seems like our white silkie roo, named dirty bob, likes the...
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    broody hens and the chicks they *will hopefully* have

    Hey Yall, Have a couple of broody hens, 1 is a black silkie, other is a buff brahma, seems like they will take turns sitting on the same clutch of eggs on and off, but mostly the black silkie. Not gonna lie, Im a pretty big and burly man whos in LE, and seeing this little silkie pilfering eggs...
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    First hatch

    Hey yall, Just threw in our first batch of hatching eggs last night...around 20 silkie eggs and a couple of copper marans...honestly not sure if the silkie eggs are even fertilized since our silkie roo, Dirty Bob, seems to prefer the "bigger" girls being brahmas etc. Wish us luck!
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    perimeter of property fencing

    Hey yall, the chicken run is pretty much like fort knox...so no worries about that. When we free range we are always outside. Question is, we have around 2 acres of land we cant to fence in to keep the chickens wandering off into the neighbors property...they have never indicated they didnt...
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    Coop litter going into run

    Hey Yall, Central New York here. Been a very SNOWY and rainy last 6 months. We have a 18x13 coop inside of a 50x50 run with around 40 chickens. They, naturally, decimated the grass that was there and have been researching ideas to add some shrubs etc into their run and maybe some lattice with...
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    DIY waterer for your flock

    Hey yall, wanted to share my waterer I built that works well, will post pics when I can. Have a 55 gallon drum raised off the ground on a platform with a "bung" I attached inside the drum for threaded 1/2" pvc run off of it. PVC then splits to two opposite sides of fencing to a chicken area...
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    A DIY waterer for chickens

    Hey yall, wanted to share my waterer I built that works well, will post pics when I can. Have a 55 gallon drum raised off the ground on a platform with a "bung" I attached inside the drum for threaded 1/2" pvc run off of it. PVC then splits to two opposite sides of fencing to a chicken area...
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    Play area for chickens in their run

    Looking for ideas or pictures to keep my girls busy in their run...was thinking like a jungle gym kind of thing with a roost and bridge a few feet off ground, maybe a mounted string to attach snacks such as fruit or veggies like lettuce head or cabbage...any other ideas come to mind?
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    Covering your run and perimeter fencing ideas for anyone looking or curious

    Hey yall, We have a lot of aerial predators where we live such as hawks, eagles and other various predators and wanted to share something that has worked very well for us if anyone needs ideas. We have a 50'x50' chicken run and a separate attached 50'x20' run all surrounded with 6' high 2x4...
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    New tom update...with surprises...

    So some of you might remember I posted looking for a heritage tom as we have 4 ten month old hens that are heritage breeds. Our goal was to mate our hens and hatch some eggs to sell or keep. So back to the story... I posted a few times on Facebook and finally got someone that said they had a...
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    LF Tom turkey Central NY

    Looking for heritage tom turkey, we are located in central new york. Hoping someone on here might have something available or know of a breeder somewhere in NYS that can help.
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    Turkey Breeders Central NY

    Hello everyone, We are looking for a heritage tom turkey to brred our 4 hens. We have had zero luck finding anything on craigslist...hoping for a royal palm or blue slate if possible... Does anyone have anything available in NYS thats friendly? Anyone know of any turkey breeders around central...
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    Turkeys Fighting

    I have 5 turkeys, honestly I am not sure anymore who is male or female, we always thought we had 5 females, three of which are Narragansetts and 2 are bronze breasted and both are heritage housed in a 50'x20' penned area. A few days ago, came home to see a Narragansett wrapped its leg in line I...
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    Turkey Harness

    Hello Everyone, Curious if any other turkey owners like to bring their turkeys on walks? That being said, mine are very much like a dog, but id like to harness them up to bring them with me certain places. Any ideas on harnesses that could work? Would a chicken harness work? Or would i need a...
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    Help with egg laying!

    Hey everyone, We have 28 hens and 4 oosters (1 brahma and 3 silkie roos and might re-home 2 roos) and 6 ducks (2 male 4 females) in a 50'x50' covereed/enclosed run with a 10'x18' chicken coop and a small separate duck house inside the run. The birds are roughly 20.5 weeks old with a hatch date...
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    Automatic Chicken waterer

    Hey guys! So we have 2 different square shaped runs connected with a 6' high fence down the middle. The first pen has 40 chickens and 6 ducks, the other has 5 turkeys. My thinking is this: I want to have a watering system for both, maybe 20-30 gallons made out of PVC with maybe an auto float...
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    First time new poults

    Hello everyone, picked up 5 heritage breed poults. They are bopping around and seem happy, however I'm concerned they're not eating "enough". They're eating Purina Game Bird starter/grower crumbles but I feel like for the 5 of them they don't seem to be eating enough for some reason, they're...
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    raising turkeys cross post

    Hello all and welcome! Looking for a little help. Currently, we have a 10'X18' chicken coop for 40 birds (2 Roosters and 38 Hens) and a small duck house next to the chicken coop and small tub for our 6 ducks all sitting inside a 50'x50' chicken run. Our chicken run is accessible to the chickens...
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    Turkey Addition Help and Request

    Hello all and welcome! Looking for a little help. Currently, we have a 10'X18' chicken coop for 40 birds (2 Roosters and 38 Hens) and a small duck house next to the chicken coop and small tub for our 6 ducks all sitting inside a 50'x50' chicken run. Our chicken run is accessible to the chickens...
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