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Oh it almost got to that point again today and my 12 year old caught it and picked it up and started rubbing it's throat and it swallowed HARD and then she put it down and it got a drink. LOL. Silly turkey! I hope they figure it out before long. One of these times we might not see it in...

Wow, what an informative post and I SO appreciate it! Thank you!!!

Thank you! Had a little scare today with one of the turkeys. They are still pretty young but old enough to be outside. It's hot here and they are feathered and are as big as the chickens and as tall as the ducks and they have been fine. Until today. ONE of them was acting weird and seemed...

Thank you! VERY informative. We live not too far from you I'd imagine. North of B-town, MO. I will do what you said and see how it goes. Thanks again! Sharlene

We bought 4 of the broad breasted white turkeys and they are about 8 weeks old now and are doing fine. I put them in with the chickens and ducks yesterday and they are in the tractor now, too and are adjusting well. I've heard that they will be ok for about a year and THEN would get blackleg...

I have heard conflicting stories and when we got our meat chickens I went with barred sexlink cockerels and they were great. Only lost two, very early on, out of 15. Since everyone that I talked to said that the CornishX weren't worth trying, we didn't. I didn't want to spend that much on...

We only lost one of our babies. We have 8 hens and 4 roosters so far. We have picked out our "guy" to keep and as soon as the others are old and big enough (including our sexlinks) we will be adding to the freezer. We have also just gotten a few banties from Orschelns. I'm surprised that my son...

No problem, I was just joking. You have a good day as well. Sharlene

Sorry didn't mean to "be a mess". LOL. I'm still a newbie here....But on the bright side, my thoughts WERE random. :) I appreciate the info on the meat birds, etc. Thanks and God bless. Sharlene

So far I'm loving their birds. Our FIRST birds we got from Nixa Hardware's "chick days" and not sure WHO they use but it's not Este's. I will buy exclusively from Este's from now on. I loved their facility and the birds are strong and healthy. And since Orscheln's has their birds, it works...

I went on Google to check this out and sure enough I found out JUST what I wanted and needed to know HERE on my BYC! I will always look HERE before Google from now on when it comes to my poultry. I was reading a book last night and it said that Pekins WON'T brood and we had just bought four...

Here is the link to the hatchery and what they say about these particular turkeys. So far they are doing awesome. They are friendly and seem strong and are eating and drinking well and are in there with the two other Pekins we JUST got at Orscheln's this evening. From that same hatchery. We...

And they are AMAZING. I guess Orscheln's uses them exclusively and I am VERY happy with my birds. I have a few Banties from them that I got at Orschelns, too. So far so good. They will fit right in with our "motley crew" once they are able to. We have a female mallard that was supposed to...

This is just TOO cool!!!

Thank you and Pete is beautiful! We named our "male" Pekin (he's still a baby, lol so we HOPE he's a boy) Madea. LOL. Because he's "huge" and we aren't sure if he's male or female yet...Ours is friendly so far. Thanks again!

What is a "drake feather". We have a HUGE Pekin duck and we THINK it's a male and we also have a female Mallard! The chick day guy said they were both Pekin's but she is definitely a Mallard and a female. We would like to know how to tell the difference but that seems to be the million dollar...

I need to know how many square feet per bird for a tractor area. How much is adequate for their nutrition to feed mainly tractor and only SOME grain. We are building a tractor SYSTEM where the chicken HOUSE is 16x16' and the tractor is 8'x16' and will be moved every couple of days, around the...

We are going to build a tractor, chicken house combo system for ours (in the next couple of weeks) out of PVC pipe and chicken wire (and SOME wood of course for the shelter and nest boxes and we have ducks, too).....1 tractor (8'x16') that we can circle around our 16' diameter (6' tall) circular...