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My Australorp hatched out a poult! It's alive and underneath her -- there are 4 more eggs under her, how long do I wait to see how many hatch? And then what? I have other chickens and it is supposed to snow this week. Right now I have the other chickens locked out of the coop so they don't...

I have 5 turkey eggs sitting under a chicken -- she has faithfully set these eggs since about the 15th of April -- so if they are gonna hatch it should be next week I am guessing -- so what do I do if/when they hatch? The nest sits up off the floor so I don't want them to fall out and how the...

My black hen is setting a nest! Yesterday there were 9 eggs in there and today there are 11. She made herself a nest in a patch next to our barn where I have mint that grows in a big hedge. She doesn't stay on the nest all day though. Is that normal? My gray hen has a serious crush on my...

Well, my two girls or at least one of them must be laying somewhere. My kids found an egg this morning, but the bad news is that my dog had it. So they are on a search for the nest. What do I do with this egg? What do I do if I find more eggs? I guess I should have thought this out a little...

A game my daughter the "keeper of the turkeys" aka "Turkey Mommy" Plays with her birds. We call it "Turkey Ball"

I thought you might enjoy pictures of our turkeys. We have two breeding pairs: two Eastern Wild and two Spanish Black. I also had two standard bronze, but one keeled over as a poult and one was "lost" -- just disappeared one day. We free range on 10 acres, but these buggers just hang out at the...

I got 6 poults this spring: 2 eastern wild, 2 spanish black, and 2 regular bronze. I am hoping to have a hen set a nest in the spring. I ended up with just the eastern and the blacks making it and I have a hen and a tom of each. Should I keep the two toms? I kind of like having an "extra" tom...