If you do not want to buy her adoptive babies, then I would say your only hope is to buy a cple more females. I know when one of my hens gets a mind to wander off and do her own thing, they always seem drawn back to the other turkeys if they do not follow.
I say she needs buddies to help teach...
I just bought 3 Heritage Turkeys, 1 tom 2 hens with the intention of breeding for Thanksgiving dinner. I want to give birds to family and friends :). They will not be as big but I hear they taste divine!
I recently bought 3 turkeys, 1 Nargansette Tom/hen and 1 Blue Slate hen. I am already in love :)
I have them free range with my goat kids and donkey. I would like to set up some natural nesting spots, what can I do to attract a nesting Turkey? I was thinking of adding several small dog houses...
I created a new account because my old account Janabors (Jill A Nabors), is linked to a old and lost e-mail from before I moved 2 years ago. My FB is off my website http://www.shangrilatms.com , FB links will not work on this forum. (So you can see who this account is)
I normally avoid the...
If you do decide to start shipping birds, my only suggestion to you would be this.
Shipping poultry is risky business, esp young birds, the stress can and does kill them.
Have a good solid contingency plan for when this happens so you are not flamed :)
P.S. I did contact my Peacocks breeder the moment it arrived sneezing, and got the same "I cant control what happens when my bird leaves here" response. I was going to light him up, but my vet defused my anger with logic :).. I knew the risks of shipping.
My peacock had 2 rounds of...
How can you be sure they did not fall ill during shipment? I do not like shipping poultry, esp young birds, they do not seem to fare well. I had a peacock I spent $150 on arrive sneezing, the other 2 hens were fine. The male dropped dead 2 weeks later despite vet care and he found nothing wrong...
1st, I would like to say I have read almost every review on here about Poultry Hollow before visiting.
I am appalled at some of the down right unfounded and vicious things people have said about this farm.
This is a family run hatchery, who has been in business many years..
There was another...