Thank you crj - I don't think I'm brave enough yet to actually hold on to him LOL I did manage however to NOT retreat today for the first time (I was equipped with a rake). He did his usual of coming up quickly and trying to intimidate me, but when I didn't budge and only said "WHAT DO YOU WANT...
We have to move our Turkey's to the back yard where we have built new pens etc. Until now, they've all lived in the front yard, the 2 Toms in each of their own pens and the hens separately (in the middle). We've had a LOT of rain here in Northern VA recently and it's really made the Turkey pens...
I'm sorry for your loss I don't think you're overreacting...I don't think I would move my feathered buddies. Is there any way to maybe add windows or something to "air out" the barn and keep it well ventilated?
I'm just a beginner but I'm sure the experienced peeps here will be able to give...
I fed baby rice cereal to a single chick that hatched a few weeks ago. It seemed to work really well and the little chick that was sort of weak and wobbly at first, gained strength and energy very quickly.
I made it rather watery at first and with each feeding, I made it slightly thicker. It was...
Thank you so much for the advice, Frosty. That is a great threat. I will go ahead and get some grapes, cook up some scrambled eggs and see if I can get Jack to be less threatening. I'm definitely nervous and I'm sure that doesn't help. The other one, "Indy", just makes that "Chee" sound whenever...
Would this work on a Turkey? I'm not so sure how I would "carry" our full grown Tom around, but he's been a serious pain in the behind lately. Has broken my husbands skin twice this week! My husband has been letting it go, although my feeling was all along that it was a dominance thing and that...
That is so neat! I only have 1 laying hen right now, but 16 more hens on their way to maturity...hopefully, my girls will also be celebrating the arrival of an egg. Thank you for sharing!
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my husband got our first Tom at 1 day old. He was the only one, and getting spoiled rotten for quite a long time. He never showed any aggression until we started to let him free range in the front yard. I haven't dealt much with him as my husband took care of "Jack" for the most...
Thank you, everyone!
I won't worry about it then. She seemed so unhappy today being stuck in her pen again so I'm going to let her out now. Phew! I'm so relieved that that's all it is. Thank you again TPP and GM for the input, it's greatly appreciated.
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I did try to put her usual food out in a place near the house and she came several times to feed...BUT, because we keep 5 pheasants in the same house with her, I closed up the pen of course because I didn't want them to come out.
I wouldn't have even thought as far...
We have 3 Royal Palm also - all hens. We had 5 to start with but 2 died and we haven't figured out exactly why. The other 3 are looking great and I'm surprised by their temperaments! We started of with 1 Tom but he was never very nice and he made me kind of afraid of Turkey's in general. Well...
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I've gone to the Chickens to say the least - we had 5 Golden Comet chicks join us yesterday and they're all doing well
We have a mature hen (blue Orphington I think) who I just recently let out in the yard to venture around and enjoy herself. She was a very reliable egg layer...