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I know I know you are not supposed to free range meat birds all day. But all of my 9 birds are freerange from 6 am to 8pm and I felt bad shutting them away but now they are full grown they just need to fill out a little bit escpecialy in the breast area. So i made a great safe additional coop...

Thanks so much!! Weather has been normal, and these hens are at the top of the pecking order so I know they are not stressed.

I got an egg from 1 of three hens ( I dont know which one). It was soft, broke and laid on the feed box. None of the hens cackled or was proud looking. I was so excite the next morning but I found nothing and the same thing happened the next morning and for about 3 weeks after. Is it wierd to...

One My geese has it's back toe\ talon clipped off suddenly and I dont know what happened. It walks fine but it is bloody and I dont want it to get infected. What should I do? And my geese do not care for being picked up so if its nothing to worry about it would be great! thanks

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We have have had the same problem but we didnt anchor it down it would but quite easy to though. :)

Hey, sorry to but in :(. I just wanted you to know i wanted my toulouses to fly and once they learned I was so glad. Now they are almost 4 months and can fly 100 yards maybe more. It would be good but know they fly out accidently into the wheat field and get lost. The other geese move on with...

Tiltle basically explains it :) THANKS!!

Thank you and no I am not. We havent had any more die. So hopefully they wont.

I got my order in today and there was one duck "sleeping". It was still breathing but I could tell that it would not live long. Then that one died and then another and another and now one is "sleeping" again I'm afraid it will die. I've already called the hatchery and they told me to call back...

I cant vote because the three chocies all applie to me

I Disagree, Ducks will be fine in a stream if There are not a lot of predators in the area.And if there are predators just keep a very watchful eye on them. Also good luck and have fun!!

Thank you, I am leaning towards Royal Palms. They are soo pretty!!

Adorable little ferrets !!

Yes and they work great some put them in water and freeze them. this would work but i just but I it in the freezer. :)

This is the first year of three digit temps in a few years and boy oh boy are our chickens and turkeys taking it hard. I installed a fan gave iced water bottles so they could lean against it. Had cold water 24/7 and gave lots of frozen veggies. Great thread!

Really Beutiful turkeys. My new want it animal :)

I love having my 4 BBB turkeys around but I just raised them for they're meat. So next year I'm thinking about getting Turkeys for laying ( thats my excuse, I just really want to keep the turkeys). I've heard that if you keep some meat breeds( like BBB or BBW) too long they have heat attacks or...

Hey, I just wanted everyone to know that RIver Otters can kill your flock. I was away for 45 minutes at 5:00 p.m. and in that amount of time it killed 19 three day old chicks and ducks. It did not even eat them. So I came into the coop with chcks bodies strewn all around. I have a very small...

I have 14 RIR chickens 4 BBR turkeys 6 toulouse geese!! And more ducks, bantams, chickens and americanas on the way! Hopefully a River otter dosent get this batch unlike the last batch :(. But one breed of chickens I really want are the Turkens so I hope I can get them . GREAT THREAD!!