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My husband thought it would be a great idea to let the hens hatch some eggs. At the end we ended up with 12 hatched from one hen and 6 from another. More than half the chickens we have now are roos. Bad situation. The coop is a 12x12 and the run is larger. We were going to expand the run by...

Had to bring Jack our Blue Slate to the vets. The winter was tough and didn't do much walking around so his nails had grown quite long. We did manage to trim them but thought one was growing into his foot. Packed him up into his crate and off we went. I was amazed how calm he was. The vet...

Stuart, who I have raised since he was 2 weeks old will be euthanized today. His aggression, so dangerous now, the electric fence doesn't even contain him. Moving him into a crate this morning was devastating for him. We are waiting to leave for our appointment and I pray for Stuart. I know...

I have a turkey that spent his first winter with us. We are in Massachusetts and had a lot of snow, ice and wet weather. He hated it and the only place close to outside he would go was to his pop door. All winter he stayed inside. Come the nice weather his nails have grown reallllly long. I...

He comes from my pure white Silkie bantam mom and a bantam dad. You can't see the coloring but he has the most beautiful brown with a very dark gold. Number One and the last chick are definately hens. One of the moms is back sitting on a nest. These little silkie bantams are machines, its...

When we rescued Jack some months back we knew he had feet and leg issues. His feet healed well still walks with care but his legs just aren't normal. So when we built his coop he had two step ups. One was to get into the human door so we filled and packed the step up with dirt that way he would...

Number 3; Lower just above branch and Number 2; upper right just down from corner of picture. Chick "Number One" was raised successfully by mom and some help from two aunties, like keeping them from running out the door. But while Number One was being raised my third hen decided to sit on a...

My DH opened Jacks door this morning and when I went out a few moments ago I noticed there were no turkey prints anywhere in the yard. I went to check on him and he's on his nest. So to make sure he was alright I got him up and nudged him towards the door. He went down his ramp and into the 2...

Just as I was walking out of Jacks coop he sneezed, just a tiny little bit but it was definately a sneeze. I got up closer and sure enough he has a runny nose. Do they catch the common cold or could this be the start of something worse. Is there something I can give him now before it gets...

The day before Sandy was to hit our geese Betty and June would come up on the deck and call until I came out. I'd come out tell them everything was alright they would go back down the stairs and slowly walk to their pen. The pictures are so identical because they'd come up call me then walk...

She is now 5 weeks old and what a cutie. Not only that, but she is very pushy. Out of the 3 hens and papa rooster #1 is the first one in, the first one out, first one to eat. Guess her name suites her. Getting feathers not too much fuzz left. Takes after papa loves to roost. But when it...

Check out this baby to the left on the branch. She/he is still so tiny, feathers are beginning to come in. Coco (papa) is looking proud or shocked to see it standing where he stands on the branch. I just hope it doesn't start crowing we don't want boys. Isn't she adorable. Mom white silkie...

What kind of eye sight does a turkey have? If I don't drop the treat right in front of Jack he won't see it. I will put my hand out and slowly let the treats/food drop right in front of him and sometimes he sees it sometimes he doesn't. Just came back from giving everyone mealworms. Jack is...

Does a Tom need and hen to display? We rescued Jack this summer, someone had won him from a turkey shoot; must have been in October of 2011 so I'm thinking he will soon be 1 year. I thought he was sick but went through the molt and now he is looking good but I can't get him to display for me...

Jack's beak seems to be getting a little long. Well its longer that it was this summer. Not much grass left to pick at. Is there something I can give him to wear down his beak, like a block of some sorts? He eats his grain out of a feed dish and treats from a rubber dishes. What does...

Had two bantam silkies laying on 3 eggs, together, one hatched and one of the hens took over as mom and has been doing a wonderful job for the past week. While they were brooding they eventually kicked out two eggs. However, when the baby was born the other silkie pulled the other two eggs in...

I need an action camera, she is so fast. 5 days old. Check out the black dot right in the middle of her forehead and her pretty yellow face. Great hunter...sneaking up on a piece of corn/ Papa Coco We adopted him from the MSPCA, someone raised him in a bird cage.

She has arrived!!! I can't tell you how exciting this it!!! We're going to call her (I say her because its wishful thinking) Number One. She was hatched on Friday and this is her first day out on Monday. Here she is with a kernal of canned corn. OMG. Hens are bantam silkies and dad is a...

Please don't think I'm obsessed but I am new to turkeys I came on the other day because I thought he was sick. Someone here mentioned he was probably molting. My thought he was done molting, the chickens and the geese are done and he seemed to be until about 3 days ago. He stands fluffed his...

Yesterday I noticed Jack our turkey was a little fluffed. He ate his dinner, eating grain drinking. This morning however, he is noticably fluffed, now I notice feathers missing from the back of his neck. He is all alone in his yard and coop so no chance of being pecked. His back by his tail...