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I'm sure I remember reading about this on here before but can't remember what the verdict is. I have 15 eggs due to hatch today/tomorrow and three pips - although one of the pips is in the pointy end and I've never seen this before. This is my first time of hatching posted eggs though which...

What temp do I hatch chicken eggs at? I went to set the incubator up as shipped eggs arrived today so setting them tomorrow and my mind has gone blank - pregnancy and clingy baby have resulted in an 18m break from hatching anything and rusty isn't the word hahaha! A quick refresher would be...

I've got four turkeys that are all due for dispatch in time for Christmas. It seems like Christmas is fast approaching and I'm getting increasingly antsy about the prospect of dispatch The darn things got Blackhead several weeks ago and I had to nurse them back to health which resulted in my...

I was just wondering if anyone had ever heard of using grapefruit seed extract to treat Blackhead? I know that the desease is caused by a parasite grouped as a protozoal. I've just been online looking for the cheapest place to buy GSE for personal reasons and stumbled across a link that states...

What's the purpose of finisher pellets? Just curious! Got some chickens due for the camp freezer in about three weeks and also Turkeys in a few months. Just wondering what the purpose of finisher was? Also, does anyone know if you should have quail on a finisher?

People are often asking on here if it's possible to sex young birds. Miss Turkey 4 (at least I think it was her lol) mentioned something about head shape and she got laughed at. I read it and skeptically figured "what the hell" and when I sold the majority of my poults at 2 weeks of age, I...

My nine week old turkey poults all got blackhead. I was so upset, everything I read suggested it was 100% fatal in young birds. I started putting some cayenne pepper in their feed and water and this seemed to buy me some time. I then (thanks to the info on the "hope this saves a turkey from...

Are there any natural cures - something I could go out and buy today? I'm in the uk and feed stores don't stock medication here - you have to be seen by a vet. I don't have a vet that will see poultry so I'm screwed. My birds are pretty sorry looking and going by the colour of their stools...

They are ten weeks old and have been put in their permanent home in the garden. They are enclosed with chickens. Over the last few days, the turkeys have been looking pretty peaky. They are not nearly as active as they were, I haven't seen one of the strutt in days, their pink bits are paler...

Hiya. I have forty three week old quail. It was pretty hot here and they all seemed pretty feathered up so I put them all in the garden. As luck would have it (or not) the weather took a turn for the worse and dropped 10 degrees. Was feeding them yesterday and noticed what I thought was a...

Hey. I have four c. 10wk turkey poults (I can't remember exactly how old they are - how bad is that!). I *think* they are all boys as they are all developing beards. The snoods and nodules, basically all the fleshy bits, are all very pale pink. I would have expected them to be redder tbh...

I went and collected some quail eggs from a lady and mentioned they would be for meat. She then offered me four 12 week old light sussex roos that she'd failed to re-home and didn't have the stomach to slaughter them herself. I kindly accepted and took them home planning to raise them to about...

The lady I got the eggs from said that quail are like popcorn - you see that first pip and then hay presto, you've got an incubator full of quail. I got my first pip (well, I first noticed it) this morning. 14hrs later and nada. I'm guessing the lady I got them from was full of the brown...

I'm in the UK so obviously some things are a little different over here. http://www.smart-chicks.co.uk/chicks.html I've come across a "sasso" meat bird. On another site, they are selling a bird called a "farm ranger" that looks exactly like and is described exactly like the X431A strain...

Hiya. I'm wanting to start out with quail. I want a good dual purpose bird and am planning on buying from two different supplier so as to be able to breed my own - thus having a continuous supply of meat and eggs. I'm looking a the Jumbo Italian quail and was coming round to that way of...

I'm really getting into raising our own meat at home. I don't have a farm, or even a particularly huge garden. I have successfully raised our own chickens, am working on turkeys and am seriously considering quail. I am after a few answers if you guys would be so kind. Firstly, everything...

I have a black Orpington hen and am going to pick up a buff Orpington roo. I was just wondering if there were any sex link between the two colours and if so, what are they? I'm aware this is probably a really stupid question and if it were that easy, no doubt everyone would be doing it but...

I've just been given an orpington roo. I have an orpington hen. I've heard they make a good dual purpose bird and was thinking about incubating their eggs. Was just after some opinions on whether or not Orps do in fact make good meat birds? TIA

One of my poults looks to be breathing out of it's mouth. I took it to the water thinking that maybe it was thirsty. It looked to spit out a bit of mucous (clear). I held him in my hands and he went to sleep, but was still opening his mouth sporadically to breath. Is there anything I can do...

OK, so my guys are only 1 day old haha but I was thinking about making some little perches for their brooder - how soon could they use them? Also, how old are they before you'd give them kitchen scraps?