Call animal control or fish and game and have them trap it and remove it or just do like everyone else and "hope" it comes up dead and if it does some how just mysteriously die burn it and dont tell anyone.
Ok I set some eggs in the incubator on december25 and had the temp at 102 (according to the stick theomometer that came with the still air incubator) and I bought a digital one tonight and put it in there. I went and checked it and it said 106 which is awful! I candled all the eggs and it looked...
Well I don't have a story about my chickens and a bobcat but I was turkey hunting last spring and as I was sitting there 30 yards from my decoy and 10-15 hens just scratching around eating acorns I had a big nice gobbler about 60 yards coming in at a full strut gobbeling like crazy. I see some...
Time to start killing a dog sounds like to me! I'd probably figure out who's dog is doing it, get proof that the dog is doing it, then charge them for the birds. If that doesn't work either kill the dog or take it to the humain shelter.
I am trying to raise healthier more satisfying food for me and my family and make a little money to pay for feed and the birds. I'll be raising big stock chickens, gamefowl, hopefully turkeys, and a couple hogs. All of them will be non-gmo and no growth hormones. I'll also be raising a big nice...
I have a few questions for you good folks that might know more about turkeys then myself which won't be hard seeing that I don't know anything about them lol.
1. How much compared to a chicken, how much do they eat?
2. Are turkeys are susceptible to disease?
3. Are they cold/heat harty?
4. Are...
@annabellaknits thank you! I'm gonna wait till day 7 and then candle. I'm also gonna buy a better thermometer that way I can keep my incubator at exact temp.
I'd like to build a incubator with 3 auto turning racks in it and a hatcher in the bottom of the incubator. I have a still air Styrofoam incubator that I've had horrible luck out of. My cousin had a cabinet type incubator last year and we had great hatch rates so I'd love to have one of my own.
I have been looking all over for a awesome incubator to build and I have found it! THANK YOU for posting this!!! Im definitely gonna be building this soon!
Im looking to build a cabinet type incubator with 3 trays to hatch a bunch of gamefowl eggs and some white leghorn eggs, I just need a good system and patern to build the turners on. Anyone have any experiance building incubators? Any help and advice would be very helpful. Im not looking to get...