Another question when the Tom was in the picture the hens and babies were not eating. Now that one hen will not take care of the babies, she's pushing the other Turkey hen onto her nest to do it. She hatched the most babies but acts like she doesn't want to stay on her nest and be a mother.
I have 2 Bourbon red hens, 1 Royal palm tom. We took out the tom thinking he was not allowing them to eat, that worked they all started eating g. Now we have 2 hens with the babies, now one hen is fighting with the other hen to stay on her nest for her. She dust bath, so the other hen got off...
Does the Bourbon red hen tell the poults it's food? What type of nesting do they need? Should my Royal Palm Tom be separated? 1 tom, 2 Bourbon red hens
I have a Royal Palm tom and 2 Bourbon red hens. My question is, hen#2 has 13 eggs under her as of today 7 babies have hatched out. We have left the tom out. The hen is not showing the chick feed is not food. Is that the tom telling them that or her. Do we keep the tom out or is it her? We don't...
I have 3 Cayuga ducks, 2 females and 1 drake. They have been laying eggs for 4 months. Here in the last week or so they have been sitting on their nests. Switching back and forth. In the last few days we've walked out there 1 dead baby beside the nest another one yesterday an egg off to the side...
I'm posting my question here. I have a Royal palm tom and 2 Bourbon hens. The first hen laid and hatched out 2 babies they died 2 days later. The second hen is due in a few days, she has 13 under her.
After the first hens poults died, we bought six babies for her to raise, seems to be a good...
I have 1 Royal Palm Tom and 2 Bourbon red hens. Both hens we're on their nests, one hen hatched out 3 babies, 1died. Still have 2 babies a week old. Went out today 1baby is dead. Only 1 left. Tom stays out all day..we let the hen out with the two babies. Was it too early to let them and the hen...