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  1. Weavus

    Keeping turkey off the roof

    Well, we never thought of it before, but someone suggested clipping their wings. So we're going to give that a try tomorrow. My dad clips his chickens wings, and I've done it for birds before when I worked in a pet shop. Hopefully that will help.
  2. Weavus

    Can you clip a Turkey's wings?

    Iknow this is an older thread, but my turkeys and chickens all flock together all day. The turkey will actually warn them if danger is near (a hawk flying overhead) by gobbling, and the chickens all run for cover.
  3. Weavus

    Keeping turkey off the roof

    Well, I work evening so I told my husband just to stand outside by the garage around turkey-bedtime, and shoo them away and eventually they'd get the hint and go roost in a tree. Now he's even madder, because they decided to roost on top of the house instead. And that's way too high for us to...
  4. Weavus

    Keeping turkey off the roof

    We've never had a coop or pen for them, when our male was smaller he would roost with the chickens in their coop, but as he got bigger he just roosted nearby and seemed happy with that. It doesn't really get cold here. I'll try the spikes, hopefully that will help!
  5. Weavus

    Keeping turkey off the roof

    We have a male Rio Grande approx. 1.5 years old, and in the last few months we found a female for him (she's currently about 7 months old). Last year during the cold weather, our male roosted on our garage roof, which makes my husband very unhappy (lots of poop to scrape off). When the weather...
  6. Weavus

    Introducing myself-new member from Texas

    Thanks for all of the welcome messages-one of our sick chickens did make a full recovery, but sadly, the other won't get the chance. Raccoons managed to get her and one other (my favorite little sweet one)last night. It's my first experience losing chickens to a predator, and boy, it's...
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    Introducing myself-new member from Texas

    Hi everyone, I've come to this site often for advice about my chickens, and finally joined up today. Have a couple of sick chickens that I'm trying to nurse. So thankful for all of the advice in the boards here. I have 2 rhode island reds, 1 jersey giant, 3 americaunas, 1 sexlink (I think she's...
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