Duck Chickens Turkeys...........................
That's wright Duck only one Duck and its a Peking female and she is loud I guess I never thought a Duck could be so loud.
Any way I have this great friend that sent me some of her Duck eggs last year and out of them only one lonely Peking Duck...
I have a new flock of assorted Turkey and Duck and Chicks.
the One Holland white and the Peking Duck are eggs from a very good friend and the Buff Orpington chickens were ordered by mail.
As well as the Polish Chickens were mail ordered as well with the Buffs.
The polish are my Daughters she had...
Last night Oklahoma was hit with terrible Tornado's and severe weather and at this time I hear that it is reported that around 100 people have lost there lives and there is still a search for more that are missing.
I live in N/W Arkansas and we got hit pretty hard as well but not any thing...
I know there is only one Turkey in these pictures but I have sold all of the Red Bourbon Poutls so far and I have some more in the Incubator and one Hen is setting on 6 to 8 eggs but I wanted to share Celie is a great Lady who did some egg swapping with me and The Holland white and the Peking...
At what time in a Turkeys life is it expected to Moult By age By season or does certain Temps trigger Moulting.
Turkey growers from all over please respond with your Knowledge I would and others would like to know.
I have in years past used a home made Incubator and home made egg turner max count for chicken eggs 20 maybe enough room for 12 turkey eggs.
With all the Hens that I have 9 and 5 Toms of coarse I plan on reducing those numbers to 4 Hens and 2 Toms but till then and with trading eggs with some...
The best Turkey ever and the first one raised by my family and the first Heritage Bird to be eaten by my family.
I was so worried waiting to get that first bird cooked properly and served up and tasting well.
I smoked it for about 5 hours brought it in and the juices ran clear and the rich...
Henzilla
I have shown this Very large Red Bourbon Hen to Celie and she is just getting bigger she is bigger than any of my Toms.
she is 2 to 3 times the size of my Turkey Hens.
I thought for the longest time she was a he but has a short snood no carbuncles and a head that is the shape of a...
I have heard people talk about Toms Drumming.
I have heard my Toms snorting as they display but not Drumming.
I picked one of my Toms up as he was displaying and patted him on the chest and it sounded like a drum and felt like a big air sack in the chest area.
I knew they puffed up there...
People with History of keeping Dominique chickens are the good egg layers and broody mothers.
I know they are a duel bird Egg and Meat but I want a good breed of mother birds.
And also to use to hatch some Turkey Eggs please give me the scoop.
Turkey and Chicken Coops The good the bad and the ugly post your Pictures.
There are people out there with great Ideas of designs of Coops The Fancy The not so Fancy and the down right Ugly coops that work for the purpose of what they were built for and great ideas need to be passed onto other...
I was trimming some wisteria and a Dogwood tree in the back yard this morning and the Turkeys staying under foot started to go crazy for the fruit on the Dogwood limbs that I had just cut off and thrown in a pile.
At first I thought will this hurt them to eat it and then I thought surly not...
Using Positive and Negative reinforcement This is not a 100% the Turkeys are closer to 100% than the Chickens.
As I have posted in the past I allow my Dogs when they are out doing there Duty in the front yard on a long line to chase the Turkeys and Chickens to the back yard and the woods were...
Let me say starting off that nothing at my home goes to wast including the rice I use to ferment for use of cooking such as Fermented sweet Rice cakes and the rice I use to make my home made Sake.
I squeeze all I can out of the rice before and then set it out to dry before I feed it to my...
Red Bourbons Turkeys are so Funny as they grew up.
I had some older Chickens free ranged with the Turkeys and the older Chickens would chase the Turkeys off when there would be food thrown from the back door for them to eat and the little feathered pigs would not allow the Turkeys to get to the...
I came home from work one day this week and as I was driving up to the driveway at the house I could hear Turkeys gobbling over and over again I thought well there like the dogs now they know the sound of the truck and are happy I am home..... WRONG.
I went to the back of the house and found my...
I don't know about everyone else but the heat we are having in the Central United States and no rain is having affects on Farmers of all kinds.
I checked local Craig's list and there is a large increase of people selling there stock of birds and at a very much lowered prices.
Plus now that the...
I know this is off subject and I apologies in advance but if you want a good laff this is an invention for or feathered friends that most don't know about.
go to the address below.
I had to share.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/691664/chicken-eyeglasses