Mar 2: They are getting bigger. Chicks learned to roost on feeders and try to fly. They graduated to a top put on the coops. My nephew saying goodnight to his turkey “Ernitt”
Feb 27: coop 2.0 Day 1: starting their forever homes. We are doing this by hand, as cheap as possible and without levels. Lol made with love not perfection.
Feb 23: We went to Tractor Supply to pick up a few more chicks. The guy refunded us for our chicks that didn’t make it. That was a bonus we didn’t expect. We got 8 chicks. They actually had turkey poults, i was shocked. I have never seen them sell them in store. We got 2. We decided to put them...
Feb 22. Our order of 9 chicks and 1 turkey poult arrived vis the mail. The chickens were frozen. So so cold. 1 was dead on arrival. Within 48 hours we lost a total of 7. They actually sent 10 chicks and 1 turkey. We are left with 3 chicks and 1 turkey. Not a good experience. We will never order...
Just a place to post our adventure's in raising our flocks. This is our second time around. We raised 15 chickens and 2 turkeys for quite a few years about 13 years ago. We built coop after coop to fit the needs of our birds. We then homed a dog that just couldn't live with the flock so we made...