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FREE to home that wants laying hens. Giving away 12 healthy laying hens. I have 8 each of Cuckoo Maran, Aurucana and Welsummer. Your choice of which you prefer. Raised in coop and small outdoor fenced area. Fed cracked cron, kitchen veggie scraps and grass clippings. No chemicals or processed...

Eastern Minnesota. Askov If I am listing this in the wrong area, I'm really sorry. Please let me know if I should list them elsewhere. I'm moving soon and don't want to transport some of my birds. I would like to give them to a good home. They were all hatched and raised on my property with...

I took in 3 orphaned unweened fox kits after their mom was eaten by coyotes on my property. They were amazing creatures. I enjoyed every minute of caring for them before I turned them over to the Audobon Society for proper raising and introduction back into the wild. I would definitely do it...

I looked and looked and I know I must have just overlooked it but can someone please tell me where I list free birds to give away? I tried listing them on birds for sale but it forces me to list a price. Thanks for you help!

Puffing the neck isn't a mating ritual. It's generally an alarm behavior. I'm speaking only from my experience with my birds. The actual mating ritual is absolutely beautiful. He really works his tail off (no pun intened) to win her permission.

Yes. I have two adult males, 3 adult females and all of them honk. The males are the only ones that bellow out those amazing calls though.

Mine started getting their trains at 2-3 years. Each year the trains get longer. The train feathers start apearing in the late winter. They keep the feathers until mid July. Then it's a peacock feather explosion in my yard. Long feathers EVERYWHERE.

I've had my peafowl for around 5 years. I have no idea if the male goes infertile, but he definitely does lose his sex drive when he loses his train. Now all he does is sit around watching football, eating corn dogs, passing gas and laughing about it.

I have no idea when I'll be moving. Once the house gets an offer, it's a matter of rushing to buy another house and moving as quickly as possble. The birds will stay with the new owner if they want them, but it's unknown whether the new owner will even want birds. Anything that the new owner...

Thanks for the idea Big Red, but male turkeys do not set on eggs. LMAO

I have no idea whether this is the right area. If it isn't, please let me know ok? I have a 3 yr old domestic (eastern) Tom turkey that needs a home or to be served for dinner. He definitely can't stay here. He attacks me or any other human on sight. I raised him from a chick. His children are...

I've been raising chickens, guineas, peafowl and turkeys for decades and the only thing that seems to live among my flock and protect them is me and my .22 rifle and 12 guage shotgun. The dogs patrol, but don't hang around the chickens. The guineas sound an alarm when the fox attacks, but he...

I never give up on my birds. If they were mine I would toss them on a strict diet of greens and water. They'll lose weight. Oh yes they'd lose weight for certain, AND they'd walk again unless their legs were broken, which I'd bet they aren't. Diet. Give it a try. They deserve at least a chance...

Mine eat grasshoppers, crickets, june bugs, flies, grass, clover, dandelions and whatever else they can peck. They free range and go where they want. They LOVE dry dogfood nuggets when it's feeding time for the dogs. Holy cow they gobble it up! LOL

I planted my tomatoes and peppers indoors a month ago. I've made youtube videos of the whole process. My house is like a greenhouse now, but the smell of fresh tomato plants is intoxicating. Minnesota planting date is May 31, so my plants will be HUGE by the time I plant them in my garden...

Wow that's a pickle of a problem. My only plan if mine did that would be to buy a handfull of jingle bells from an arts and crafts store and make necklaces out of soft string with the bell on them and put it around their neck so it fit just barely loose enough to not cause discomfort. The jingle...

I collect turkey eggs and store them till I have a couple dozen for hatching. My hens lay at the forest edge in the brush in nothing but a scratched out depression of earth with some dry leaves. I just put the egg unwashed in a chicken egg carton with no lid, set it in the closet of a cool room...

My flock had the nastiest fighting in years recently. I even made a video of it on Youtube. One male was the loser and even the females joined in. His head was bloody and he was just a mess. I removed him for a couple weeks into a solitary pen until his scab-hat healed and fell off. Looked...

I've heard people go on and on about blackhead and other nasty doomsday scenarios when combining chickens and turkeys. I have chickens, guineas, peafowl and turkeys all in one coop all winter. They free range uncaged outside the rest of the year and are a very close flock. Not once have I had a...

I put small pebbles in the water. I didn't want to use coins because who knows where those nasty things have been? I also had my hand in the brooder box alot with the newly hatched poult, touching him and carressing him to keep him company since he was a lone hatchling and brought him out with...