i am laying on my side, and i am being super gentle and still and at first it seemed to be nuzzling in and now it's just quitely sitting there, it's not making noises of alarm or anything and it seems happy. but how do i know if it really is happy on my shoulder hanging out with it's lil "cave"...
i was holding her, /him s/he climbed up my shoulder walked into my hair and sat down, twice. we pulled her out an she walked up my left breast an shoulder and burrowed in and gets quite upset when i try n get her out.
it never did with our other batch a few years ago. but either way i do not see the harm in going and getting red lightbulbs or those big heat lamp style lamps.
I really had my heart set on trying to get an ash tom, so beautiful and they'd be so unusual. But I do not want to have to get any shipped from a hatchery in the mail.
I'm not looking for a flock I just want 2 or 3 I would have only gotten one, but my dad and another person said they're very social and they'd want more than just themselves. The guy I asked who runs an article about raising turkeys said 3 is better than 2.. I was thinking I could get a huge...
some of you might remember that my dog attacked one of our heritage turkeys and ripped all her feathers out on her back under her wings and left a few huge gashes, it's getting all leathery and healed up now, but Spartacus, or one of the other birds, but i think her because i've seen her peck it...
What do we do? Can she survive this? My dad sprayed her with solercain it's like bactine. do we need to wrap her in guaze? get some special turkey ointment? does she need sutures? What? We've seperated her from all the other turkeys, and she is in an enclosement so she can't wander all over the...
She's been pecked on and broke the skin open a couple of times and made to bleed, and then these showed up after the wound healed. The wounds healed smooth and gone, with just a slight pink scaring. They don't appear to hurt her but they're awful and ugly looking. there's 2 large ones as seen...
how dumb are they you ask?
They get stuck in wide open spaces cause when they get into a corner, like a corner of a fence,they fixate strait ahead , running back and forth endlessly trying to get out through that corner and can not see that they're not trapped at all, that they're just gotta...
:(The turkey is limping an the third toe on the inside by the" thumb toe" is sort of mangled It's puffy in the middle and at an angle . I don't know how it happened, it was fine yesterday , and then this morning at feed and water check, it was injured.
I think once the injury is a bit older...
My dad raised them together from itty bitty birds, and he says now the ginni's all think they're chickens, and act like chickens, I am not quite sure I buy that the ginni's think they're chickens just because they act more like the chickens than ginni's but who knows.
Our chickens are free range, and the turkeys are in a a frame pen, the wire put up * though this is not why it was used, it's what he had* lets the chickens reach in and try to peck the turkeys, but the turkeys are feisty lil buggers, they peck harder and faster, than the chickens do, and the...
our coop is an a frame, , and then there's a door to an outer pen, and then a door out to the yard, very easy to get out of, they get out of it just fine to get the food in the "middle yard" but when all the other chickens are gone, out into the yard, the 3 ginni's always get stuck in the coop...
soooooooo I found this lovely futon, My honey pie had one and it was rock hard, really cruddy, so I've always thought a futon would be nice, but only had his piece of crud one to go by, and other cruddy uncomfortably ones.
it's being sold in pieces at Big Lots, 100 for the frame 179 for the...
When I am holding Spartacus, every once in a while he cranes his neck and makes drinking motions with his beak, but he's not thirsty, it just reminds me of when they open their beak, get a sip of water in then tip back a bit an swallow.
I've been keeping it to about 25 minutes, and it doesn't seem to hurt it or nothing, it stays plenty warm, and it goes to sleep and blisses out and makes cooing noises an looks about now and then, now and then trying to climb to the top of my shoulder, and what not.