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Parthenogenesis aside, Anyone know how long a bred turkey lays fertilized eggs once separated from a Tom? We have been letting all our turkeys free range together on the property but due to an incident, we need to pen them up. Since we are also starting to sell the chicks we want to separate...

Well, it has been a few weeks using the Sprouting station and the hens love the fresh greens, grains and having to pick their way though the root mats. I am still not getting close to 70% germination so I'll be looking into that soon. I know I am having bird issues during the day; doves raiding...

We are at day 7 in our quest to decrease our chickens feed bill; this attempt by sprouting barley. I read that by sprouting the feed you can get a 5:1 increase in feedstock, thereby decreasing the overall cost of daily feed. We are shooting for 30% Commercial feed, 30% Fruits/grasses and 40%...

We are getting more and more chickens (thanks chicken Math!) and we are looking into moving and expanding our chicken coop and pen to allow for more protected ranging for the birds. We are considering building 4 pens off the coop with separate access both inside the runs for the chickens and...

Okay- Newbie to hatching chickens and I have a complicated question. Background and current situation: We have three "mountain" hens that are broody, 6 RIR and 5 BR hens plus one BR roo for a total of 14 hens one rooster. We coop all these together and the nest boxes are in the coop. All our...

This is a mixed feeling post for me. on the one hand, I want to share our near fatal (chicken wise, not human) experience with the group, but that means I have to admit I did something stupid in the first place. Well, here goes: We have a young rooster that was scalped by the hens and older...

Health Question for a wounded chick. Head and neck feathers have been plucked out and looked like he isn't going to make it. Back ground- We let our 10 Cornish Cross chicks out to mingle with the flock yesterday, and I decided to let out 'Lightning', our barred rock Roo that is two weeks...

What a ride! We recently bought 12 Cornish Cross chicks to start our foray into raising our own meat birds. With the average fryer going for $15 -$18 here we thought we might be able to get close to at least breaking even. After the cost, we like the idea we knew what they were fed. Our area...

JoAnn and I have 6 hens that up until a week or so ago have been laying 4-5 eggs a week, Enough to fill two one dozen egg cartons before we can use them up. Well, we started noticing a tapering off of production and two of the hens went full broody. Won't leave the nest boxes, pecks every time...

Just got our chickens! But we don't know what breed they are. I looked through the BREED forum and of course I found some that looked close, but I am not sure. What do you all think?

I moved this post from the forum "Pictures and Stories" to "Coop Design", I thought it more fitting since it's more about the coop than the chickens so far. JoAnn and I finally made it to our new digs, keys last day of Feb I believe, but our boxes and tools didn't get here till end of March or...

This post has been moved and re-titled as OUR ISLAND CHICKEN COOP to "Coop & Run - Design, Construction, & Maintenance"

With lots of encouragement for fellow BYC'ers JoAnn and I have made the move to the Big Island of Hawaii. House sold, belongings shipped (and still on the boat [takes 30-40 days]), Truck on the way (shipped separately[takes only 7-10 days???]) we are waiting for our stuff to arrive. Until then...

JoAnn and I were out today looking for our new digs when we almost ran this guy over. He and his mate were foraging in the road and took off into the jungle just to the right [of the photo] in the general direction of an unseen house planted deep among the Ohia trees. Hawaii is known for its...

Hi, new to the forum but trying to get back to raising chickens and some other fowl soon- When I was a kid growing up in a small town where the animals outnumbered the people, it was expected that your family raise some kind of animals- we had chickens- 50-100 at any one time, lambs, and a...