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Just checked- his nostrils are clear.

It’s been anywhere from 19-40F for the past week. It just started warming up day before yesterday. Anything below 30 is pretty much unheard of down here in the winter. They’re also in a protected run, so I have no idea what the crust could be. Hopefully it’s just Axl being gross with his food...

Just went through our first true freeze(s) of the year and I was checking out everybody and noticed something weird about my male Black Polish. He has some odd nare growth going on, plus some crusting and dry looking wattles. I’m guessing the wattles are from the cold af weather, but I’m at a...

Welcome officially to the Human-Imprinted-Turkey Club, I suppose. My girl is only 8 weeks old as of today, and I can already picture her learning how to jump the outdoor cat tree to peck at the sink window. She’s also a certified Stalker™ and loves to tell me about everything I’ve missed while...

The only 100% guaranteed way to sex your poults before maturity is by DNA sexing. Or, if you’re patient enough, waiting. 😕

I was up early this morning so I went to TS for a large waterer. Saw these guys in the bantam bin. Any clue what these guys could be?

No problem! The turkey I have now is my first too. I didn’t want to take blood from my birds either really, but with my parrots it was a case of ‘I need to know for sure what gender they are so I can have the appropriate supplies and know if I need to watch for a calcium deficiency’ and in my...

I had her DNA sexed by blood so it’s good. I didn’t want to wait and potentially risk them hurting my hens.

Thank you! She really is and I think she knows it lol

…That turkeys are so comical (and mischievous)? Around a month ago I was gifted a single Black Spanish turkey and had zero clues about what it entailed. I know the forum says that turkeys learn by observation, but I had no clue how true that was. My chicks taught her how to drink while I taught...

If you can’t be patient enough to wait or can’t have male turkeys you could do a dna test to see what they are. You can either get a small amount of blood from a toenail, pluck about five feathers, or if you have the eggshell you could send it in. I did it with my parrots and my turkey, and it...

Just went out in the blazing heat to give everybody some cooler water (90 F with 60% humidity, I’m going to be so dead come July) and hopefully got some better pictures of PeeWee (middle silkie in previous post).

I have 3 silkies that are 10 weeks old today and I was wondering if someone could tell their gender. This is Yeti who I’m sure is a rooster 😮‍💨 This is PeeWee-GusGus who I originally thought was a roo, but I’m wondering if they’re a pullet. These two photos are of Bigfoot (like their...

She also pooped a normal poop— no blood whatsoever.

Finally got some pictures— she was the opposite of enthused and cooperative, which is better than this morning’s quietness. Now in these her legs are skewed, but she rearranged them after a few seconds. I figured I’d show how she struggles to straighten them out.

Before she stopped walking it was only one leg. I’ll go make a batch.

So my chick Squash started limping mildly two days ago and has steadily gotten worse. I originally thought it was a sprain, but now I’m very concerned it’s something way worse. Two days ago she could walk, although you could tell it was painful. I didn’t bring her in because she was able to...

Please make sure everyone responsible for the coop headcounts your chickens when checking on them. Someone accidentally forget to early in the storm, and we lost both of our 6 week old bantams.

In my angst phase of middle school, I absolutely played the heck out of their albums. It just so happened the day I got them ‘Teenagers’ came up on my playlist and the girls matched the ✨aesthetic✨.

Shoot, I knew I forgot to put his breed in! All of the D’Uccles are absolute sweethearts, and love to perch on me every chance they get to check out my glasses and earholes—literally putting their beak in my ear!— to which I still don’t understand the fascination.