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Pearl is pushing two years old this year, she has already hatched 4 clutches of baby chickens. This year she decided to first lay 16 eggs in the dead of winter during a "cold snap" that we had in Georgia. All of the babies died while hatching :( I felt bad for her, so a shoved a few chicken eggs...

Quote: Not that I know of. I bought her from the feed store, an she was with a ton of other turkeys at the time. I've had her since the middle of February/ I have had the Gobbler about 4 days longer than her.

As some who read these boards know, Pearl, my hen hatch 10 chickens and 3 turkeys out. 1 chick and 2 of the turkeys did not make it She did this in stages: 1 turkey poult the weekend of June 11 which died. I was then gone for 10 days, but my better half said he did not see any more, but then he...

Well THAT did not go as planned at all! Pearl HATES her baby! She had no problem when I added the chicken babies back. I did on at a time about an hour apart. Shoved them under her wings. But as soon as she saw the turkey baby (fondly now named Fugly) she went off the deep end. Pecking it and...

I am just hoping that she can't count Now there are three eggs out there tapping in the shells, plus the two little EE's from earlier today. I am going to try and move her tomorrow, and stick the first 5 back tomorrow night. So if all goes well she will have 9 little chikens and 1 little...

Pearl hatched out a total of 5 surviving chicks, 1 is her own turkey chick, the other 4 are chickens. I took them all away from her last week, so that the remaining chicken eggs, which I wasn't sure when they hatch, had a chance at hatching. Today, it appears those eggs are hatching as well. So...

Mine fights with my roosters. 4 of them in particular (I have 8) . Two of those them he stalks endlessly.

lol good one. I raised dogs... I can't help it...I call everything a breed.

Quote: Take another look at the picture of poults. Both poults (2) are rusty blacks with three barred chicks. They should be Mottled Rusty Blacks just like the dad, since both parents have a Narragansett gene. If the dad had two red genes he would be a Mottled Buff. This is about the colors...

Thanks for that crash course, though I am still lost So it was just a roll of the dice that cause the first batch to be striped, and the second to be white mask? That perhaps her next clutch will have a tad of both (or another variation) if I can get more than 2 to hatch at a time?

I'll take a stab at it Pullet, Roo, Pullet. Now this is coming from some one who ALWAYS seems to pick out roosters. I have 10 at the moment. Thank goodness I live in the country, and they all don't crow.

O wow. That is a pretty bird! What kind is it? ( I have a weakness for spotted or molted patterns) I am clueless when it comes to genetics, unless a census report is involved (Been dabbling in genealogy for 11 years) I have no idea what either of the parent turkeys are. Just from looking at...

This is Pearl: On her nest And this is Reggie: He looked sooooo much better until about a month ago, when he decided to go visit my catahoula dog, who is chained up FAR away from the bird free range area. Stupid turkey. This was a baby from the first clutch of eggs the had (had...

My turkey is doing the same thing If she happens to move, and see a chick trying to hatch it, she kills it and eats it. This is her first time hatching eggs. What I have been doing is checking on her, and if I see a egg in the process of hatching, I remove it. So far I've been able to save 2...

Quote: One more turkey egg left, but now the chicken eggs are hatching! Just went to check on Pearl and there was a baby chick! So now I have a baby one, to "teach" the Fuglies But Fugly 1 is having some sort of spazz attacks, I keep finding it on its back with its feet in the air. So I...

Well now I have TWO fuglies!!!! Another egg hatched a few moments ago. Fugly #1 is drinking all by itself now. Thought I had lost it this afternoon, but I just kept dipping it's beak in the lid that has water in it. Since then, it sure has improved greatly. The eye opened on its own too, so I...

It peeps, it scoots and it poops:) I've dipped it in water a few times, and it spazzes out but does drink a few drops. it responds to my voice and sounds. I've been calling it Fugly...my 22 year old daughter says "Remember the ugly duckling. mom. You see how it turned out." I said uh huh....not...

It is still alive, but the ugliest thing I have ever seen. I have a Narragansett hen and a either a Bourbon Red or a Bronze Breasted Tom (I can't tell them apart) The other chick, that was stepped on looked nothing like this one. Right after I discovered it and put it in the laundry basket...