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I'm so excited! Our bourbon red turkey pair has started giving us fertile turkey eggs. In the incubator they go!

Can I ask if any of you went through the process of acquiring an Illinois Egg License? I'm debating doing it and having an inspection but I'm kind of at a loss about the egg washing- USDA approved of course. I don't wash our eggs at all for our family's use but for selling off site I'll need...

We are all the way south! Just 20 min from Kentucky but might be able to make a trip.

Quote: I LOVE hearing about those kiddos! What a great program to teach them a bit about their food! We live on a large farm and I'm the resident chicken enthusiast. I could happily provide a home for them, 18 you say? I'm very interested in all the Plymouth Rock Columbian's and I could also...

It ate some heads and sucked blood. Looked like a mink to me. Darn thing wasn't very scared of people. I have a photo here: http://www.harvestofdailylife.com/wildlife-encounters-on-the-homestead-the-american-mink

Where is this? An auction I assume?

I didn't either :( Live and learn right?

I'm hunting mink and in the market for some replacement ducks :( Anyone have eggs or hatchlings right now? In one night we lost all our poor ducklings and several chickens.

I observed a roo doing similar things in my garage last summer. It was odd circumstances but he basically picked out a nest spot (in my goat hay in the garage) for the ladies and was basically showing them their nest options. When the ladies finally got the message he would stand just above them...

Oh man! You sound like me. LOL Never a dull moment on the farm right?

It just recently had pasty butt this week at 3 weeks old. The lump has been there since hatch.

Do any of you know what would cause a feces filled lump inside a chicks abdomen?

I plan to keep my low-pecking-order roos for bug patrol on our property and for hawk alerts/ protection! They are good sized roos and will eventually be for the soup pot but this spring when I can free range some again those extra roos will not be getting much grain and will go a loooong way to...

I added a NEW rooster to our flock of 24 that already has 3+ roosters in it. It can be done.

I don't worry about the cool down during the first 18 days of incubation as in the "wild" mama hen has to leave the next to poop/ eat & drink and her eggs get a cool down period. I also read a few studies about the cool down period and it's impacts on hatch ;) Here on the forums there is good...

Can someone offer pain med suggestions? I need help: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/951265/chick-pain-med-suggestions#post_14739396

Yay! Originally I had three of them and a hawk ran off with my obvious rooster in the fall :( It was much more red and had growing spurs & that rooster like tail. I wanted a breeding pair and then I was down to just the two... and they kind of look similar coloring wise but that crow changed my...

Rooster or hen? This is one of my two juvenile blue red laced wyandottes. This one's hurt foot brought it to the cage and away from my whole flock. Yesterday it almost crowed at me. I thought it was a hen because of it's coloring. What do you think?

We don't have snow on the ground here in southern Illinois and my flock is very eager to bust out the door when I go open it up each morning. They eat and some will go back inside for the warmth/ heat lamp but the rest just carry on outside no problem. We wanted to keep em locked up but they...

It started as one hawk but it was like he told his buddies because many of them showed up together and then it remained that way for weeks. You could hear them flying in for the kill- squawking at each other. After I locked them up the hawks went away, took about a week or two though. I...