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How long do I leave it in there? I don't expect the others to hatch until at least tomorrow. I know it needs to stay in there until it is dry at least, but should I leave it longer to wait for the other eggs? Would it hurt the other eggs if I took the chick out tonight? This is our first hatch...

We let our birds out to forage daily. A couple weeks ago one of my hens went AWOL. Everyone else was there as usual, and there was no sign of a disturbance. She just didn't come when we called them in for dinner. We have looked for her several times. but the area around our house is wooded and...

One of my turkeys has swollen warts on her head and neck. I thought maybe it is fowl pox but they aren't black or crusty or weepy, and they aren't blocking eyes or beak. She is foraging well. None of the others appear to be affected. What's wrong with my girl? It is hard to see but she...

I have found some good charts with guidelines for weight and lbs of feed week by week for meat chickens, and for BBW turkeys, but not for heritage turkeys. Does anyone know where I could find such a chart? Thanks!

She looked fine Sunday morning, then we were running crazy the rest of Sunday and Monday, so we just tossed in the feed and checked water and ran. This morning we did our usual inspection and she had this huge swollen lump. She (I think she, but not totally sure) is 13 weeks Black Spanish. She...

I have 3 dead, and 4 missing. They were almost 10 weeks old black spanish, as big as my full grown chickens. Two of the dead ones were in the front yard, and one was in the fenced garden with the gate closed. My son swears they were not there when he was feeding everyone this morning, and he...

I have a small flock of (13 birds) 4 week old black spanish poults. They are already outgrowing their brooder inside and I am concerned about overcrowding. They have been going out during the day for about a week now, but coming back inside at night. They have a nice outdoor roost enclosed...

I have a pair of 1 month old BBBs and this morning one of them was having trouble standing. At first I thought his toes were curling, but when I looked closer it looked like his leg was splayed out to the side. I tried straightening it and it didn't seem to hurt him, but the leg won't stay...

I want to raise meat turkeys, but ones that will be self-sustaining. I have a few BBB that I started with this year, and so far things are going fairly well, but of course they can't reproduce naturally. So what heritage breeds are good for meat? I know none will get as big as fast as BB...

I want to order hatching eggs to hatch out myself, but I want to get 2-3 different breeds without getting 3 dozen eggs. Where should I look?

I got my first Ameracauna egg today. It is a lovely blueish color, but it is oddly long and skinny, almost like a duck egg. What's up with that? My RIR and my Maran/Aracana cross laid normal shaped eggs from the get-go.

I'm not sure if this should be here or in the egg forum, but here goes. Does anyone know of a convenient online egg production tracker? Something plug and play that I could just enter who lays what every day and then it would automatically calculate graphs and trends and such? Does such a...

Hi all, I'm new here and to raising chickens. We have a RIR cockerel and pullet, 2 Americauna pullets, an Andalusian pullet, and an EE that looks suspiciously like a black maran but is supposed to lay olive eggs. None have started laying yet but all are in the 16-20 week range, so I'm hoping...