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I hope your turkeys get better. I had leg problems with some of mine when they were first hatched, but I've gotten some wonderful advice from here and was able to save them. I hope you'll be just as lucky! I have a turkey that is in love with one of my hens and he could care less about...

I emailed him at the government assigned email address and that's where the reply came from. I had heard from another neighbor that her husband is friends with some people in zoning, so I think they just tried to scare me and simply TRIED to make me get rid of them and didn't think I'd go...

GOOD NEWS! I'm totally fine. And a little birdie told me that the only reason he came out was because he's friends with her husband. So maybe they were just trying to scare us. But....IN THEIR FACE! LOL Sorry for the caps, I'm just so happy that we can keep them all. We are 2 Turkeys over the...

Kikiriki, this is fantastic! Thank you so much! I was so upset yesterday. Now, I feel like I'll be able to at least get somewhere with all the things I found pertaining to VA and our county specifically, plus our zoning etc etc. I'm having the rest of the neighbors sign a little petition because...

I'd be fine with losing a few chickens. My husband LOVES his turkeys so that's really where the problem comes in. They're like his children from another wife LOL So if I need to retire some chickens, I can most certainly do so. And he will have to make a compromise on the turkeys cause there 2...

Thank you so much for your input. I think you are right, emailing will be the better option so I have something in writing. We have I think 2 or almost 2 acres and we currently have 4 Turkey's, not counting the 4 babies that hatched a few weeks ago. We do have over 10 chickens, but the guy...

I found this, which is specific to our county: The new zoning regulations allow the keeping of chickens, pigeons, doves and other domestic fowl on any A-1 (agricultural) zoned property of at least one acre. In addition, on properties zoned SR-1, SR-3 and SR-5 (semirural) with a minimum of one...

Long story short, the county showed up today, saying someone complained (we have a pretty good idea who it is) and said that we'd have 30 days to "get rid or dispose" of our Turkey's. The gentleman was very nice but it sounded like there was no way that we could keep Turkeys here. We've had them...

I think that 90 degrees is too cold for them. You didn't say how old they are, but I've noticed with mine, that even at 1 week old, they still seek out the really warm spot that is 99 degree's right now. It is rather rare that they will seek the colder corners of the box. If they are only 1-5...

Thank you so much for your response. I agree with that - incubating is already artificial, so helping them in that case does make sense to me. I just candled several of the other eggs that were set at the same time and 3 are dead in the dead (due to hatch today and tomorrow) and several others...

I have 4 baby turkey's that just hatched a few days ago and also had a cpl weak ones that were very tiny when born. I found that using baby rice cereal is a very helpful thing to use to get the ones that aren't doing so great to gain strength. All of them are doing fantastic now and even the one...

I would most definitely leave water accessible to them at all times. What I do for the little ones, I use just the bottom of a small waterer and put marbles in it (in the center of it as well as around the area the water usually is when the top is attached). That way, I don't run any risk of...

I"m new to Turkey's as well, but from what I've read, I don't think there's any way to tell their gender until they are older and start gobbling/displaying. I'd love to know if there is a way to tell much sooner than that though!

What a cute little poult! I don't have an answer to your question, but I had 2 light yellow turkey babies hatch and I'm also curious to find out what their color might be when they grow up. The hens are all Royal Palms, and the boys are 1 Eastern Wild, 2 bronze and brown/white (I forget the...

@ Hazelrah: Do let me know how it does for you. I will stick with it cause it made such a big difference. Oh and I was wondering, too....2 of the 4 we have now are light yellow in color, just like some chicken chicks would be. Is that common? We bred Royal Palms with a Eastern Wild and a...

I'm happy to report that the first turkey baby with this problem is doing GREAT! We did tape its legs with the simple band-aid method and helped it eat/drink etc. of course. We had 2 more after this one, they both needed assistance hatching and the 4th one was doing VERY poorly. Couldn't hold...

I'm so happy to hear your TomTom made it! It's a lot of hard work to keep up with their "issues" sometimes, but worth it :)

This is the first breeding season for our girls and our first time incubating Turkey Eggs. We've done a few chicken eggs before and those were very easy, compared to what we've been dealing with the last few days. So far, we have 4 baby turkey's. One hatched by itself, the other 3 all didn't...

I've had 4 turkey babies hatch so far, 3 needed help because they couldn't get out. Needless to say, it didn't look too good for the 3 that had trouble but I'm happy to say that today, they are all doing GREAT. Since one of them was especially weak and just laid on his side and had trouble...

Just an update on mine: We had 2 more hatch, 1 was totally fine and the other was even worse than the first one. It couldn't stand at all and kept just laying on it's side. His neck seemed somehow "stiff" and turned down and to the left. I told my husband that if he wasn't going to be any better...