So I had two barred rocks join my flock about about 3-4 weeks ago. I know nothing about them except I am assuming they are barred rocks. I think they wandered from a neighbor. Anyway, I am thinking both are roosters. Can anyone confirm? I'm fine if they are, just trying to figure it out, neither...
Ok so I want to run a question by everyone. For the last week its been 70's and today is 82. I have a hen sitting on about 15 eggs in a pile of branches and brush. Well tomorrow is suppose to get down to the 30's overnight and will be in the 30's for the next few nights. I'm wondering if she...
Ok so I tried to search and search but I cant find a straight answer. Around what age can you tell what sex Narragansett turkey poult ?
Also can I give turkeys kitchen scraps like I can for my chickens? Is there specific foods that are toxic to turkeys? Oh and I', assuming they need grit too ...
Ok so I had 3 Narragansett turkey poults, then 1 died a couple days after getting it. I looked online at it looked exactly as "flip over syndrom". So now I have 2 spunky turkey poults. They are now 1 1/2 weeks old. I have read before I got the poults that turkeys were hard to raise cause they...
My DD and I were talking about what poultry she was going to show at the fair. Well we are both wondering what our African geese will look like at 4 months old . Since if she decided to take one of our geese it will be 4 months old. Does anyone have a pic. I tried googling but none of the pics...
I finally decided on names for my goslings. Meet Gus Goose & Greta Goose lol
**** I changed the name to this thread so I can just post updated pics here instead of starting new threads each time :)
I picked up my very first turkeys this morning. :) I have 3. They came from the Happy Cackle special and I narrowed down the breeds to be either Bronze Brested or Narragansett. What do you guys think ?
Oh and their only in with the chicks until they've all drank and warmed up, then they...
I picked up my babies this morning from the post office. I have no clue what they are but narrowed it down to Toulouse or African . Any clues ? One has pinkish dye on its forhead so I'm assuming I have 1 male and 1 female.
Hi, I'm new to the world of geese. I have 2 arriving tomorrow. I've been reading thru pages and pages of posts. I was just wondering if anyone had some tips for me. I already have ducks so I'm not new to waterfowl but are there anything with geese that I should know?
Thanks
Ok so I had my first hatch of the year and 4 our of 6 eggs hatched. I didnt think the other two would since they were frozen when I collected them, so no biggie. Anyway on the last night of ducklings hatching my humidity went down below 50%. The last two ducklings had a hard time hatching, I...
Hello I just received 16 quail eggs to incubate, I set 15 ( 1 was bad cracked). I have been doing my research , the incubator is at 99.5 with 60% humidity. I picked up game feed and plan to first use a tote bin with the top cut out and screen added at the begining and will switch to a large...
Well my female Pekin is now 16 weeks old and my mallards are 15 weeks for one set and 13 weeks for the rest . Then of course the baby at 8 weeks old? I forget I'll have to check the calendar lol.
Anyway, will the Pekin and older Mallards be laying soon? Will they do it in the coop or should I be...
I recently received my replacement chicks from Meyer hatchery. Well the first time around my Golden Lakenvelders died within the first couple days. Now my new set ( BOTH ordered as female) are growing at different rates and one is growing a comb already. In my original the 2 Golden Lakenvelders...
Well Jet the "Mallard" duck is now 14 weeks old. He has molted the last couple weeks and now has his green head. BUT none of the other mallards (6 others) are or have molted. They are all still small and have the female looking feathers. We have at least 3 other males but none with green heads...
Ok so everyone or most everyone knows about Shifu lol I like to bombard the pic posts with her. Anyway she is supposedly a Jumbo Pekin/Rouen mix. And I have a couple questions.
1. Do Rouens grow slower than pekins?
2. Do Rouens feathers come in slower?
3. Anyone else with a rouen/pekin mix --...
So after looking thru many posts about RIR's (Rhode Island Red) , NH's (New Hampshire) , and PR's (Production Reds) it has me wondering what I have. I have been assuming they are RIR's since they were packing peanuts. But are they? Or could they be PR's? I doubt their NH's since they are so...
I did a search and couldnt find a current Andalusian thread so thought I would start one. I currently have 1 Blue Andalusian and 1 Splash Andalusain. My Blue's name was Henrietta, but soon became Henry when his comb came is FAST and RED lol. My Splash is named Harriet, she originally was suppose...
So for those of you who truly open range, and the chickens freely wander with no bounderies. What kind of fencing do you use to protect your garden? Is there anything besides fence that can be used to deter the chickens from eating the garden?
My chicks and ducks open range from 7am to dusk...