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My 14yo son was helping his grandfather cut hay and came across a nest of wild turkey eggs. Grandpa is not a warm, fuzzy soul, and was going to wind up destroying the nest, so my son gathered them up and brought them home to our incubator. The wife candled them (that was this past Saturday)...

Yesterday morning I got up to let my chickens out at daylight just as I always do. Went back in and had my coffee. 2 hours later I go out and find a line of feathers across the front yard, but no chicken and no blood. I am definitely missing 2 birds. They free range during the day and get...

I'm looking at starting a compost pile. I've always fed my birds the leftover/scraps, and just tossed the coop cleanings into the garden, but I think I want to start a compost pile to supplement feeding the chickens. Plus I can imagine they do a really good job of keeping it turned. So, from...

I'm sure this has been discussed, but I can't find anything. Every search of 'Winter Chicken Food Crops' just gives me cover crops. I live in Planting Zone 6 or 7 and the only crops I hear of people planting this time of year is turnips. Being the first of October, is there anything I can...

Well, I've mysteriously lost three of my 'store bought' uppity babies in the last week. No sign of predators, just missing bird with only a foot or a feather in the middle of the coop. What do I do? I have had all sorts of traps set (after the babies are put up obviously) including steel...

My wife was concerned we wouldn't be able to tell which babies were TURKENS.

Well, we're blessed/cursed with a new resident. I was sitting on the porch the other day with wifey watching the chickens and all of a sudden all the grownups run under the porch. I get up to look as a shadow streaks across the yard and what do I see, but a beautiful bald eagle soaring across...

I have a bush out where my chickens free range. I think its under a grub worm attack. I have an insecticide to use on it but am concerned for the safety of my chickens. Is there any reason for me to be?

I've been looking for a dog to protect the 'free range' flock, but keep getting murderers instead. I've been to the pound twice now, trying to kill two birds with one stone...no pun intended. When I get them at the pound, I usually get young pups. I raise them with the chickens, feed them...

I know this may sound a little cruel, but I have a hen who has gone broody. We don't own a rooster, and I've raised her from an egg. I'd like to sneak an egg under her and let her hatch a chick or two...you know...let her be a momma. Problem is, I really want to raise a few Jersey Giants. I...

I have free range chickens. I'm at twelve hens right now, 6 buffs that are new to the flock and 6 Phoenix/cochin mix that have made their home with me for some time now. I let them out every morning and they put themselves to bed every evening. Now, for some reason my six P/c mix have decided...

We had an abundance of roosters this spring, and now we want to prepare the entire flock for winter. We've build a trampoline coop to separate those birds we want to process. Our concern is with the roosters fighting with one another. We plan to put 5 roosters and 5 cochins hens in the...

I have a wire cage with the biggest hole being 1" x 3/4" that housed 3 RIR chicks we recently purchased at Orscheln. We'd had them for around 5 weeks, and they were about 6 inches tall. Last night while they were in the cage, some critter pulled two of them out and left nothing but feet and...

Had a hatch from the incubator early this morning. Had a momma hen with a hatch this past Sunday (4 days ago). Will the new hatchling be okay if we put it in with the Sunday born hatchlings? Or do we need to put it in a brooder?

I have a Phoenix that has been sitting on 8 eggs over the last couple of weeks. 4 of them hatched this past weekend. The other three have not. These eggs have come from a conglomeration of 5 total hens. She is still sitting on the other 4 eggs, but she is getting away from the nest more and...

I believe it has happened. She's was on the nest all day yesterday, and again last night when I went to check on them. She was on it this morning too. NOW WHAT? It was pretty nice yesterday (high 50) but it got down to 25 last night. Supposed to start warming up gradually. I assume...

Okay, Little Brown, my cochin hen is laying an egg about every day and a half to 2 days. Yesterday while I was working out in the yard on the greenhouse, I saw both of my roosters (a phoenix that happens to be my mortal enemy and a Black Breasted American Game Bantam) having their way with...

A friend and I are looking at splitting an order of 50 meat chicks this spring, and after shopping and looking at the prices, I'm beginning to wonder if its worth all the effort? I do enjoy fresh chicken, but I'm not above eating store bought either. Is it going to be a good or bad financial...

I have searched the internet over and over and I cannot find the plans I'm looking for. The brooder I liked was the one that had the removable waste tray and you could also remove the wire tray (that the chics stand on). It looked really well set up and easy to clean. Another point I liked...

Considering raising meat chickens, but would like to have them hatch chicks before the slaughter so I don't have to buy new chicks every time. My question is how exactly do they lay and sit on their eggs? Well, I know how they do that, but how many eggs will a hen sit on, and do they stop...