Turkey Talk for 2014

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I don't personally have a house turkey. When I have injured birds or a momma hens with chicks, they come indoors in a closed room. I do bring the adults out to the yard to poop. They seem to understand not to poop around the babies, so they enjoy the quick outdoors poop. the sick birds usually just poop everywhere. i personally, would not have an indoor bird pet- I say this even though my heated bathroom is shared with all my incubated chicks....
 
Lorilyn Farms said:
I don't personally have a house turkey. When I have injured birds or a momma hens with chicks, they come indoors in a closed room. I do bring the adults out to the yard to poop. They seem to understand not to poop around the babies, so they enjoy the quick outdoors poop. the sick birds usually just poop everywhere. i personally, would not have an indoor bird pet- I say this even though my heated bathroom is shared with all my incubated chicks....
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Lol! I currently have a chicken in my bathroom we are working to get the bumble foot out. I keep trying to figure out how to get a table in my bedroom to hold the incubator when it comes lol!!!:lau
 
Ardizzone7 said:
Lol! I currently have a chicken in my bathroom we are working to get the bumble foot out. I keep trying to figure out how to get a table in my bedroom to hold the incubator when it comes lol!!!
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I keep 2 incubators in my bedroom. I currently have one one my dresser and one on my nightstand. The one on my nightstand is in the process of hatching chicks, one BCM hatched about half hour ago and 3 silkies have pipped yay.
 
write2caroline said:
1: Completely with out any clue for Turkey 2014 experience.
2: Do they only lay eggs once a year?
3: skipping because IDK what breed they are.
4: 3 Females 0 males

Skipping to 11: I feed my chickens fermented feed I can feed turkeys similar but do they eat same kind of feed? HELP!!!!!
12: No What they currently have I would not put my chickens in and I need to build them something better but I don't even know if they roost. How wide the roosts need to be and how much they weigh. any advise would be appreciated
13: My husband promised her we would not butcher the birds as they were her pets I think they are about a year old and I do not know if they would be good or not but I would like to get them healthy first.
14: Normally I am a infogeek and I read as much as I can before getting an animal I have never raised but my husband was asked by the neighbor who is moving to assisted living to care for these birds and made him promise they would not be eaten. I felt like that was un fair - first to pawn off your birds because you can't keep them and then to make that person promise to raise them like pets. She would be forced to abandon them otherwise and my husband is a kind considerate person - I would hope that I am too but when we first moved here this same old lady had dozens of cats and kittens everywhere - When she could not feed them they migrated to my house and ate my pullets and even the chick feed. It has taken me years to get the strays fixed and I believe it is irresponsible to cause problems and leave it to others to fix it. We have been raising - now that they are all fixed 10 outdoor cats and 6 indoor cats. That is a lot of cats. I have caught and released 20 other cats which were fixed so after 6 years I think we finally have fixed the kitten issue. Many of the kittens were sick and had mites eye issues so I am more immune i think to tearful pleading since I am not independently wealthy and try not to make promises that I cannot keep.
Caroline
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i would get a tom & breed those hens
around here young ones are going for $10 each once they are a few weeks old



good luck
piglett
 
Ardizzone7 said:
Lol! I currently have a chicken in my bathroom we are working to get the bumble foot out. I keep trying to figure out how to get a table in my bedroom to hold the incubator when it comes lol!!!
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I use the sewing machine stand...

That said, the reason I put the incubator in the heated bathroom is that temperatures don't fluctuate there. I've found that in regulare rooms, there's enough fluctuation in temps to drive the incubator, and you, batty, trying to keep stable temps. (I have the styrofoam type bator.)
 
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