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so I am at a crossroads with where I want to go with my farm...I have had all types of egg birds and tried meat birds but didn't have much better results...(i tried jersey giants and heritage RIR) all the hes are small and the roos were stringy....i have a HUGE white rock roo and was going to go...

I have 10 turkey and 2 doz chicken eggs that are WAY overdue in my lil giant still air bator....I candleded them at 14 days and all was good.....event went so far as to water candel them day before yesterday....they are in my laundry room away from drafts ect...and today is WEDS they were DUE...

we are not new to processing our birds but Im not an old hand either....and I have a question....my birds are free range mostly I penned up the birds (1 turkey and 3 roos) that we processed and there were these lil bugs on them in the feathers....not lice cause you could rub them and squish...

ok....I have raised chickens for the better part of 8 years and I have NEVER seen what I saw this morning....we had a HUGE egg....now we have had huge eggs before that were double and triple yolkers......but I have never had an egg inside of another egg....the inner one was soft shell...

my boy was on full display the other day but woudnt show me his front side.....lol

I have one that was born labor day....and it was showing off today to mom.....does that mean anything.....its white so color wont help... thank you in advance..

this is what my hen looks like.... my male looks like this.... their baby was born labor day and was solid yellow...and is now white....at what age will they start to show what color they will be?

its so freaking cute.....and it hatched on sat night sunday morning....it is so freaking cute....but now I need your advise....there were 5 eggs in the nest only 2 were left only one hatched.....so after 3 days of following mommy and baby around to make sure everything is alright my 9yr DD...

its so freaking cute.....and it hatched on sat night sunday morning....it is so freaking cute....but now I need your advise....there were 5 eggs in the nest only 2 were left only one hatched.....so after 3 days of following mommy and baby around to make sure everything is alright my 9yr DD...

OH I AM SO FRUSTRATED!!!! we started with the peahen on 5 eggs now we are down to 3 eggs....I am not sure when she laid them or how far along they are but every few days it seems that another egg is missing.....I dont want to put them in the incubator because I dont know how much longer they...

so I have 8 turkeys and they are a pain in the ***** when I go to milk my goat....they are always getting into the barn and running off the kids from their feed.....well I thought of a solution and got a spray bottle and started squirting them to keep them out....it reached them and I was able...

so I have a nubian dairy goat and now we want to raise meat goats.....we had done some research and discovered there is a new breed of goat called a kinder goat that is a nubian pygmy cross....they are suppoesdly excellent milk goats and excellent meat goats....allegedly.....but I talked to a...

ok....so we found the peahens nest....and when I found it there were 5 eggs under her.....now there are only 4.....I dont want to run the risk of losing any further eggs but not sure what to do right now....I am not sure when they were laid and I have an incubator and I can incubate them but do...

or rather hubby almost killed her with the tractor!!!! but he didn't and we found her nest.....she has 5 eggs under her and is in such almost plain sight I feel so stupid I didn't find her sooner....but wow is she camouflaged!!!!......so here is my next question....what do you feed baby...

I am new to raising peafowl and I have a pair of peas a white female and a bs male....well....monday my hen was really REALLY elusive.....then yesterday I didn't see her at all!!! her mate has been calling for her all day yest and now has taken up to following and herding with my turkeys.....I...

I know this is a chicken forum but my pet turkey is not doing well......I had to put him in our horse trailer for a week so I could catch my peacock who was kicking his tail and I checked him on weds and he was fine...pulled him out fri and he is NOT GOOD.....so I thought he may have...

so we have several "flocks" on our property....we are raising egg layers....turkeys...ducks....NJ Giants and we also have some buff orphingtons and sliver laced wayndottes.... (sp)....and heritage breed RIR....so....we were at a loss when we first started to process a bunch of 6 mo old RIR roos...

ok.....I need some major help......heritage vs hatchery.....so we bought some nj giant chicks from the feed store....now I was figuring that all the research I did we would get true NJ GIANT CHICKENS..allegedly they are supposed to be turkey sized chickens.... they are 5 mo old now and we went...

so I have a dwarf Nubian cross goat...(at least that is my best guess..) she was given to me for free with a free horse....and Betty is a real sweetie....but definitely has tude and doesn't like kids.....so I want to start my own kinder herd and I want 2 Nubian dairy goats...I have a friend that...

so I have not so patiently waited for my turkeys to hatch from my incubator.....and I have NO clue what I am doing......but I do have a hen and a tom on my farm....(hence the eggs...lol).....so my question is.......now that I have 3 babies in the brooder.....they all 3 have this lil spike...