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We just had our thanksgiving turkeys butchered, and we are pretty sure that we saved the mom and dad back to breed again next year. But I want to make sure. I have a feeling of dread that I made a mistake. Can anyone help verify that I have a female here and not 2 males? The male is much...

ok, long story short a pair of turkeys were given to me. Problem #1 - They free range 100% of the time. I'm worried about this for the winter. The hen managed to hatch 11 turkeys this past July. she raised them free range until they started to wander into the neighbors yards. they were...

I need some help. I've been trying to breed my own sexlinks and I've run into a hiccup. I've been successful with Black sexlinks and was trying for golden sexlinks and cinnamon queens (or whatever they're called). The birds - I've got a RIR rooster and RI whites and Silver laced wyandottes...

So I have a RIR/golden sexlink cross rooster. If I mated him with a RIR white, would I get babies that could be sexed at hatch? But the big question is that would they be golden rocket sexlinks? My guess is, maybe. But that they wouldn't have the laying ability of the true cross because...

These were hatched around Halloween. The plan is to sell most, keep a rooster and a few hens. Most are pure RIR, but a few with white in the wings are a RIR golden rocket cross. I tagged them all on their legs with a number so that i'll be able to link up who you all say is who. 1 2 3...

Yesterday I went to feed the chicks and found one laying on its side and twitching. It spasmed (stretched out, even its toes and head) when I picked it up. It seemed pretty far gone so I had hubby put it out of its misery. I assumed that it had been trampled by another chick in the feeding...

I have a chick who sustained what looks to be a neck injury while I was moving the group to a new coop. These guys are 4 weeks old. The chick cannot seem to fully lift its head. At first I thought it was having spasms and had somehow broken it's neck. Now, after watching it for a few hours...

so , you'd think it would be easy to sex a black sex link huh? Well, I'm new at this. What do you think? the 4th chick has just a touch of white that is on the back of its head.

so I'm getting into the business of selling my hatching eggs. I had thought to do it locally, but am thinking about selling some on e-bay. I have one rooster. Is it ok genetically to breed that rooster with his 'children'? My instinct is, no. But I thought I would check just in case things are...

OK, first of all, please forgive my stupidity. Because there was a lot of that going on here. I borrowed a hovabator from an acquaintance. It has a fan and an egg turner. Everything works. The acquaintance hadn't had success in using it herself, so I didn't ask her any questions. It seemed...

They are 17 weeks old. Any ideas?