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  1. ChickenChaser43

    Hi from Southern Pennsylvania USA!!

    I suggest a raised coop design if you plan on having a coop and run and not letting the chickens free range. The raised coop provides them with an area to dust and be in the shade on hot summer days. And it gives you more space than just having a coop on the ground.
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    Royal Palm laying eggs 3 weeks after hatching a clutch of eggs.

    Did not expect it to happen because I assumed their was a hormonal change that the hen goes through when brooding and raising poults and wouldn't lay again until next spring. She is separated and in her own enclosure away from the tom's but they are on the opposite side of the fence. She even...
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    baby tom behaviour?

    My hens strut and "display". So that isn't an indication of gender.
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    differences in eggs

    On Porter's site under the "more" tab is a phenotype and genotype tab. You can use that to help with the color calculator. For instance here is a Royal Palm tom that I copied from that page: b'b' cgcg nn If you plug that into the calculator it will change to Royal Palm.
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    differences in eggs

    I would be willing to bet that only one of your tom's did the breeding. Slight chance that possibly a second tom may have got a chance to breed. In a flock your size, there is usually a dominant tom that does all the breeding.
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    Post pics of your turkeys.

    Snuck some turkey eggs under broody chickens.
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    Post pics of your turkeys.

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    Post pics of your turkeys.

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    Turkey eggs- free ranging nesting question

    If I let mine free range and they goto set on the nest. Usually end up a predator dinner. Feedman that is what happened to one of my free range hens. She was nesting nearby the pen and something got her. Feather trail was all that was left of her. The other thing you must do is, keep the...
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    egg turner

    I think that would be too much movement. The eggs would be tilted side to side 90 times in that 30 minute time frame. The 1/240 motor tilts the eggs 6 complete times in a 24 hour period. Using the face of a clock for reference, the 1/240 motor basically tilts the eggs from 10 to 2 in a 4 hour...
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    egg turner

    Not constantly. But 3 or 4 times a day yes.
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    egg turner

    The 3r/min means 3 revolutions per minute. It sounds like you are correct that it needs a controller. I believe it turns clockwise and counter clockwise with the voltage being reversed by the controller. The motor you are probably looking for turns 1/240 a minute or a quarter of a turn an hour...
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    incubating turkey eggs question

    For incubating the only issue with them touching may make it a little more difficult to turn the eggs. Hatching issue would be if the hatch is staggered. Eggs that hatch early tend to have chicks or poults that may disturb other eggs that have not hatched. I am only assuming that if a chick...
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    Post pics of your turkeys.

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    explaination of chick colors for blue slate turkeys

    R2elk is there a trick to using the color calculator on Porter's site? I have attempted to figure it out and couldn't. Sort of gave up because of the complexity that it appeared to have. I was hoping to just insert my breeds and get a result but it has a lot of info to fill in. I even...
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    Returning to a childhood hobby.

    2 Ideal 236's at six months old.
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    Topic of the Week - Broody hens

    Depends on breed. White Leghorns are probably the least broody of all. Have 6 Ideal 236 pullets, basically their White Leghorn. The one went broody after approximately 2 weeks after she started laying. Unfortunately she decided to do so on the back porch and a raccoon visited overnight and...
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    Tom turkey sitting on eggs

    Interested if the tom actually has the physical attributes to be capable of hatching. A brooding bird usually has a featherless or lightly feathered area that also has extra blood vessels. This enables good heat transfer to the eggs. The area is actually called a brooding patch.
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    Post picture of your turkeys!

    7 turkeys. 2 Narragansett toms 1 hen 1 Royal Palm tom 2 hens 1 Bourbon Red hen
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    Turkeys

    I have Narragansett and Royal Palm toms that are 7 months old and they have spurs started and beards starting to show. Spurs are just raised bumps but definitely visible.
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