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When I was in the seventh grade, our ag class took a trip to the local farm store to get baby chicks. I barely talked my mom into letting me get some. I was so excited. On the bus ride home I picked out one that seemed really special to me and named him Roger when I got home. I loved him so...

I have over eighty baby chicks right now and two hens setting on more eggs. The eighty chicks are split up into five broody hens. One hen on eggs has hers hatching and this morning she killed two before they hatched and a second ago i found one dead and another cheepping and it was very cold...

If you have ever read any of my post about a very fat turkey named Gilbert he finally passed away yesterday. Gilbert was a 56 pound broad breasted bronze turkey. He was four years old. Gilbert just wasn't like any other turkey, he followed you around everywhere you went and he loved scratch and...

I have two chickens that have what I think is a broken leg, any tips on healing them would be great, any ways one of the chickens with a broken leg now has blood in its crop, idk what to do, need help fast

my farm innovators still air 2100 incubator is so confusing, I have no idea how to keep the humidity steady and now my egg turner is broken, I have only used it twice, it is stuck on the left position, I am two days into incubating and idk what to do, I started turning them myself this morning...

Fiskar is my precious little turkey poult I got in April at atwoods, he had scissor beak EXTREMELY bad and only had one eye, I felt bad for him because nobody would want him, I asked if I could get him and they him to me for free because nobody wanted him and he would probably die, when I got...

most of my chicks I got in March and April I can tell what breed they are but some I can't but I have a few ideas on what they are The first three are 1 1/2 months old and the last one is 3 months old I think they are all old English game bantams, I can tell which are boys and girls so you...

one of my blue silkies had hay string wrapped around its extra toes and I didn't know, no telling how long it's been there but it was cutting into the toes, I pinched them and he did nothing, I am sure they are dead, do I need to cut them off, if so how

Hey everyone, haven't posted in awhile and a lot has happened, I had to babysit 30 chickens for people while the red river flooded, lost 6 chickens of my own, fiskar the special needs turkey is doing great :) I would like to know how to breed my own showgirls now that I have time to breed...

i have a duck that has been broody for a month now and she won't stop, I don't have a drake for her so no fertilized eggs, can she sit on chicken eggs? I know she will sit on them but will she raise them?

there is a person in the chicken behavior and egg laying thread and they keep posting ads about their hypnosis voodoo clinic, how can we get rid of the spam?

i have a month old silkie chick that has a crooked beak, not the normal scissor beak but the top and bottom beak are slightly bent inthe same direction, I have never seen this, she can eat and drink fine also

my month old buff cochin bantam hen ws acting strange so I picked her up and everything seemed fine and then she kept running and fallings over and wasn't able to get up, I took her out of the pen and it wasn't five minutes later and it had died, what the heck happened

i know I am the biggest idiot ever for doing this but my broody hatched some chicks and one hatched late today and the others hatched Friday and she wanted to take the others out so I let her and I put the late hatched under another broody for as a babysitter and I came back ten minutes later...

My hatching eggs under a Broody hen hatched today, today, one is in the process of hatching, I just went out and checked on it and it is bleedin, I need help fast, do I need to put flour on it?

i just bought 50lb bag of corid on eBay and now I realized it is the crumble kind, can I dilute it, can they even eat it?

I have some guesses on some of these, they came from ideal hatchery, I got them at atwoods. I have two of these, rose comb, clean legged bantam, I'm guessing golden laced sebright, Red Polish? Clean legged, has a small crest, clean legged bantam, v comb No guess, clean legged bantam...

i got a 9 year old rooster from my old ag teacher, the person who got me started with chickens last year, he ordered him from murray mcmurray, I have been raising some chicks for him and I took them to his house today, he said I could have his two black sex link hens and his old cochin rooster...

i got a free scissor beak one eyed turkey yesterday at atwoods, felt bad for him so I got him and they just gave me him. I raised a scissor beak chicken awhile back but I lost her in January to fowl pox, any tips on caring for the turkey

i went to atwoods for the sixth time in the last month, chicken obsessed, I saw a bb white turkey in the bin that had scissor beak, I mentioned him to the employee, she said it had only one eye also, I felt bad for it so I said I'd take it, they gave it to me for free, any special care tips for...