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@Faraday40 Sorry to hear about the bird - I think this might have been one of mine - I remember meeting someone at a gas station who was gathering eggs while on vacation. Losing birds is no fun - we just lost a lavender cochin cockerel that I was very hopeful about - now I've got a hen that...

My wife heard a loud bang/crash out in the combination barn/equipment storage building this morning (8:30 ish) - and saw one of my turkeys fly through the screen window - the one that went through the window is fine - but I found another one dead on the cement floor - still hot (floor is cement...

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There are dozens of references, and links to studies on the Wikipedia page I linked you. Wikipedia isn't a good source for a research paper, but it's a fantastic place to start. Also, the idea that "anyone" can post to wikipedia is false - that hasn't been true for almost a decade now. You...

Alright - thanks. Bought a couple bags of chick starter (20%) and when they're done with that I'll transition them to a standard all-flock food. I assume I wait until I see eggs before swapping them onto layer?

Tomato plants being toxic falls into the "mostly myth" category. We originally thought tomato leaves had large amounts of solanine in them like potato, and wild nightshade leaves. It turns out they're much more like peppers - and have almost none. They produce a different glycoalkalod -...

Okay, so definitely step down from the Gamebird Starter. Of course, in traditional Southern States style, their poultry guide recommends their 18% Grow-N-Finish feed, which doesn't seem to actually exist. Fantastic. Would standard 18-20% chick starter work? What type of feed do you use...

I have some Beltsville Small White poults that are about 10 weeks old now (born 6/15). I'm just coming to the end of a bag of starter and am wondering when to switch them to regular turkey food. I know I'm not there yet, but just trying to figure out how much food to buy. I'm also wondering if...

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My roofs are all corrogated galvanized roofing screwed to 1x2 furring strips (every 12 inches). Those furring strips are screwed to the rafters of the coop. My coop is pretty much all open - we had 75 mph winds this week (and tornadoes touching down a couple miles away) and the roof stayed on...

Predator protection and human aggressiveness have literally nothing to do with each other. Your rooster isn't attacking you because he sees you as a predator.

All this does is make the rooster afraid of you. It doesn't make him afraid of your kids, or your wife, or your visiting nieces and nephews. It probably doesn't make him afraid of you when your back is turned. It doesn't fix anything. The problem here is usually bad genetics. Cull the bird...

Meh - my coop is painted OSB, and going on 5 years old now, and is holding up fine. The OSB was $7 a sheet, treated ply of the same thickness was $30 a sheet. Counting the floor I believe I used 8 sheets. For a small coop for 20ish chickens, I'd never recoup the extra investment. At some point...

Some of them are definitely eating at this point, and I've seen a couple of them drinking - so good signs I guess. The 9th one hatched out last night, and the remaining egg looks like its about a week behind, so probably junk. Ordered a dozen eggs - got 18, 9 hatched out. That's pretty decent I...

Thanks - paper towels have been added to cover the shavings. I put a couple of little mounds of food in there - and they seem to be pecking at them.

I've been keeping chickens and ducks and geese for quite a while. Turkeys are a new thing to me though. Last night I had 8 Beltsville Small White turkey poults hatch out (and I think there's one more coming today - egg has pipped). I've got the 8 out of the incubator and into the brooder under...

yeah, its pretty straight forward with regards to the chickens. Its murkier with the rabbits - if shes keeping them as pets, shes probably fine. If shes got a colony of meat rabbits, shes probably not. I'd be hard pressed to think 4 is a problem.

Ameraucana is not a 'true, pure breed' because there is no such thing in chicken classification. There are birds that meet a breed standard, and birds that don't. Birds that meet the specification are Ameracaunas, birds that don't aren't, whether or not they're 'pure'. Chicken breeds are...

This is exactly what I'm talking about though - the 'true' isn't what's important here, its you continually selecting for a specific phenotype. Most people think that if you take any two ameracauna and breed them together, you get an ameracauna, and that's not the case - its only an ameracauna...