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I’m sure this has been asked and answered in previous threads, but I’m too frazzled to search. I noticed today my bourbon red hen was keeping to the corner of the turkey run and sort of hunched over. When I opened the door for free time, she didn’t come running, so I investigated and found...

One of last summer’s quarantine boredom projects was my woven garden fence. Since the area doesn’t get enough sun to grow a decent garden, I’m thinking of putting my coop inside the fenced area and using the space as a chicken play yard. I can line the interior of the fence with buried hardware...

My 8-month-old bourbon red jake has recently decided to turn into a jerk. He’s attacked everyone in the family over the last month, so I’ve resorted to carrying a rake whenever I’m near him, and the kids don’t go outside when he’s free ranging. Our turkey pair are strictly pets, and the hen is...

My bourbon red pair spend their daytime hours in an enclosed outdoor pen and sleep locked in a 4x8 shed (just large enough for them each to roost on separate boards). If I construct a nesting box for my hen, should I put it outside or in the coop? Any eggs will be eaten, so she won’t be raising...

I have a male/female pair of Bourbon Reds but do not have the space for, nor interest in, raising poults this year. Hazel hasn’t laid any eggs yet, but when she does, what should I do with them? Are fertilized eggs edible?

My 3 heritage breed poults are about 9 weeks old and fully feathered. I’d like to begin transitioning them to sleeping outdoors in the 4x4 pallet “hut” I built for them. The structure has a plywood floor, roof, and lockable doors, and 2 roosting boards. Someone suggested I wrap it in plastic or...

New to turkey raising, and I’m a little lost, but the birds seem to be thriving. I’ve got 3 poults that are about 8 weeks old—Eastern Wild, Narraganset/Bourbon Red, and a Royal Palm/Bourbon Red. The last two are half siblings and came from the same farm. They currently spend their days outside...

Earlier this month, my husband found an abandoned pheasant chick in the yard that would not leave. So we adopted him and have been raising him in an indoor heated brooder. Sweetest little thing ever! However, I realized today that Sam-the-pheasant is actually a wild turkey. I had already begun...