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[Leahs Mom]

A question for GOAT PEOPLE

Can the chickens and the goats free range in the same area.... will the goats hurt the chickens or will they be okay together?

 

[raisinemright]

They're a little small for that size fencing. Plus its supposed to storm pretty bad the next few days. I would say they would be safer inside. They also are at risk for coccidia in this wetness. I would keep them in until they are at least 4 weeks for meat birds. They still need heat and dry ground.

They are coming back in at night, been checking on them. They are still grazing and not huddled together.

 

[bradselig]

They are coming back in at night, been checking on them. They are still grazing and not huddled together.

I would just start them on a mild treatment of corrid or feed medicated feed for the first week or so to prevent a huge issue with coccidia. But other than that I'd say as long as they aren't acting cold I'd let them be outside.

 

[Indyshent]

9 new turkey poults are out and ruling the brooder box.

They usually do! Generally, duckies will put them in their place though

So far, my turkey poults have gotten along with everyone else really well, though one has a nippy fascination with feathers. I started putting molted feathers in with them, and it's pretty well stopped. Not sure, but it might be the one confirmedom that's been doing it. Will likely have to get leg bands to tell the two bronze poults apart at this rate. One seems especially snuggly. I picked it up to put it back in the brooder, and it went right to sleep... It's still in my hand, snuggled up and sleeping like it was born to cuddle

 

[Indyshent]

I never noticed Bacon doing this last year, but does anyone know about turkey poults opening their mouths really wide while being held and/or sleepy? All the bronze poults I've picked up this year have done this, and it's kind of distressing. It's like they're yawning, but I haven't noticed any particularly large breaths accompanying this gesture (more like they temporarily stop breathing, if anything).

 

[ellymayRans]

Okay, my chicks arrived! Pretty easy to tell the buff silkies and the Salmon Favorelles, but anyone want to guess which kind of Marans I got? Should be from this list: [COLOR=47476D]Black Copper Marans (chocolate eggers) White Marans (medium brown eggs) Golden Cuckoo Marans (medium to dark brown eggs) Blue Splash Marans (light brown eggs with dark speckles) Blue Copper Marans (medium brown eggs)[/COLOR] They are center in this video: [COLOR=47476D]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153134129587492

[/COLOR] EDITED TO ADD: Front pics of the Marans chicks. I am uncertain re: the dark one, but feel like the light one is a Blue Splash.

I would say splash and if the other has a mahogany color to it Golden Cuckoo and a girl being so dark. Here are some of my Golden Cuckoo Marans I hatched from mine for the Easter HAL. You can see the lighter is boy others appear to be girls.

 

[ellymayRans]

More pics from the Easter HAL! I have some adorable little stinkers!

Love these kinds of butt shots! Haha!

Boys broke me and got some ducks for Easter! I've never been around ducks and Omy they are the sweetest little bugers!
Rouen

Khaki Campbell

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Lookie lookie what I found this morning! It got stuck in a water pan overnight. Almost like it was serving itself up on a platter for the chickens! It's a blue-spotted salamander (Ambystoma laterale), I believe. Not the first one of these guys to be rescued from the hens, either!

It was so small! It was carefully relocated to a nice, moist, rotting log in the woods by the creek. I wish we had a good vernal pool that I could have put it near, but the creek's as close as we get to that in our woods.

Yay, nature! e

 

[SallyinIndiana]

A question for GOAT PEOPLE

Can the chickens and the goats free range in the same area.... will the goats hurt the chickens or will they be okay together?

my goats and the 2 roosters I had for a bit got along fine. BUT the roosters made a mess of the goat house. They roosted on the mineral block, slept in the storage loft, ...

 

[Faraday40]

My results from the Easter H-A-L

7 eggs set; (6 were fertile) *These eggs were chosen by my broody - not me)
Day 6 - Eggs moved to incubator & clear one tossed.
Day 18 - All looked good
Day 21 - Nothing; not even pips
Day 22 - All 6 hatched.


Now let's play find the chickies!
Can you see all 6?


1 is a pure lav orp. 1 is a Lav Orp x Sussex/Orp. The other 4 are EEs, I think. (CCLxLav Orp or EExLav Orp)

Either way, they're all cute & healthy.