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We kept 5 in a 6x8x4 chain link dog run (covered with hardware cloth and tarp, during the night, until we finished getting their shed & run constructed (they would have been about 11 weeks at that point), but one of us was here to let them out every day around two in the afternoon so they could...

Depends on what you have to work with. For daytime use, a couple of folding infant/toddler fences - staked to ground and covered with hardware cloth would do. Only thing you would have to cobble together would be an enclosed night time area within fencing and SECURE lighting source for heat...

This might be of some use (for the turkeys): https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/918456/turkey-sizing#post_13978542

Just a gratuitous shot of one of our hens that wings her way from keeping appointments with the annual ax. She knows how to celebrate Thanksgiving.

:welcome The `exact' grit size is covered in Chap. 7 of the ALBC TURKEY MANUAL (a very good reference to download and `thumb through'): http://www.albc-usa.org/downloads.html Insofoar as feed formulation? So long as the poults (up to three months) are getting about 28-30% protein from...

:welcome We allow ours to free range when we are here (predator suppression service). The Wilds are plentiful but ours imprinted on us and their `territory'. The closest ours have come to the Wilds was a bit of circling/displaying prior to some sparring between the toms; the wilds saw us and...

I'd wait until they were at least 6 weeks old (developed enough to keep clear if the tom takes a notion). Make sure they have someplace to retreat to/on (couple bales of straw). I"d watch them closely for a few days. If there is any aggression at all, I'd have a temp. pen ready for the...

A length of 2"x 2", at about 3.5ft. above the ground, out about 2 ft. from one of the corners (ends attached firmly to fencing) provides an adequate roost (can stretch a tarp over top that corner of fencing to provide some cover). Also consolidates majority of poop in one location for easy...

Pretty good pen (10ft. ht. will cut down on some overflights). Coop or lean-to, etc. in run? If you are going to separate by sex, pen the hens out of sight of the toms (from Feb-June, primarily). This will cut down on sparring. Is the Bronze a Broad Breasted Commercial variety?

Ours have been very good mothers. We move all unauthorized nests into shed and use the folding `toddler' fence to contain the expectant, hissing, mothers (we just ignore their complaints and go about our business - we always feed the little poults lots of insects by hand, if they aren't...

This is another outcome thrown by same pair: RP poult riding on mottled hen's back was hatched from RP/RP egg (she hatched it, however).

A `mottled mutt' by RP tom out of Slate hen.

Sorry for your loss. They do like to `hitch a ride': Hope you'll be looking at more `papoosed' poults on the prowl come Spring.

Only had this happen once, here (two toms) and was quickly broken up. Breeding is now a `regulated' affair. Reminded me of that old Steven Stills song `Change partners' performed in a minor chord :rolleyes:

One tom and three hens will spare all involved (if there are three toms, it is best to having breeding pen for tom/hen - out of sight of other toms). A hen, in season, with three toms, will usually result in one, or two, bowling the third off the hen (repeatedly).

They might try to a. breed a hen b. stomp a hen. However, if they aren't in all in the same run the chances of this happening are pretty low. Yes, the toms will work out their pecking order during the Spring with an `echo' of same behavior in the fall. If there isn't a hen `presenting'...

nsz wrote: The chickens and turkeys are in pretty large boxes, indoors in a room with heat and a 125w heat lamp. Here are some pictures to hopefully assist! Thanks again! Also, here is a video! Thank you for posting! Vid is interesting (going after fingers or the lens filter?). Only things...

nsz wrote: The turkeys were purchased as "common white" and "common brown". 99.9% chance they are Broad Breasted Bronze/White (bred to eat like pigs and have everything used but the gobble). There is food and water in their box with them Please describe the brooding setup for the...

nsz wrote: I am a new turkey owner and I have a question. When I first got the turkeys (2 of them) they were purchased with chicks as well. They ate and drank with the chicks until about 2 weeks because the killed 2 chicks from pecking them. So, I soerated them. They are now nearing 3.5 weeks...

ericsplls wrote: I just finished reading the whole thread. Wow I'm just as lost on what I want as when I first started. I really like the size of the bsw and midget whites but would much rather have a more natural colored bird. It just doesn't seem right whatching a snow white bird in a pasture...