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Turkeys In Maine Your example agree's with our experience. Hens hatch their own eggs, usually 12-16, 1 or two are lost within a couple days. Weak at birth, or stepped on are the most frequent causes. In our case it was my stupidity feeding so much chopped fennel to birds confined to a cage...

In the last 2 weeks we have had 9 of 12 healthy baby poults die with no obvious cause. No bad discharge, no froth at mouth, just sudden weakness, respiratory distress, and death. Driving us nuts, but then we realized that we had gotten a large box of fennel fronds about the same time. Shredded...

Our kids helped kill and butcher everything from chickens to cattle. They grew up mighty fine people. Way we did it, was if the animal was a pet, put a garland of flowers around neck, pet and make over them and give them their favorite food. When they put their head down to it, pull trigger...

Old turkey farmer told me once to never ever faint or pass out in a Turkey pen. He wasn't talking about getting your toes pecked. If you want to know what will happen throw them a chicken carcass with a little meat on it, and come back the next morning.

Thanks to both Bear Foot Farm and loghousechick. We've already got an old Cattle Dog, who probably wouldn't appreciate a Pyrenees, but the suggestion of heavy wire on the ground 2ft out from pen sounds like a good one. Do I need to run the heavy wire up 2-3 ft also to keep them from tearing...

There is one other approach to the predator problem. A good stock dog. Australian Shepard, Border Collie, Cattle dog are my favorites, but there are also the big guard dogs, Swiss Mountain dog and the like. Trick is to get them to pay attention to their guard duties all day long. One...

Trying to build bomb proof pen for turkeys. We have industrious coyotes that will dig into most anything. Currently planning 2x3 welded wire up two feet, down 6 in or more (depending on digging) below ground. Considering in addition strands of barbed wire staked to ground 6, 12 and 18 inches...