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Last month my son noticed a chicken wobbling to the coop at bedtime and she didn't make it til morning. He didn't tell me until morning before going to let the chickens out. We lost Sally Ellen to being egg bound. Calcium is great for soft shell if it's combined with vitamin D3. I buy baby...

Update. We lost almost all of our breeding stock of Midget white turkeys to a Cane Corso dog who's owners lost control of and the devastation was ugly. It was Gracie who managed to be the sole survivor. I had one male with a sucking chest wound that lived a few hours. If he was a human he would...

We've had aggressive turkeys before. It is a pecking order thing. But while you want to be able to love on your turkey and get some positive responses back she must know and understand she IS A TURKEY. She did not imprint since birth which is in your favor.We literally had to get other turkeys...

Some hens are great at keeping their eggs warm and healthy and some are not. But that doesn't mean they can't all be great mothers. I usually start a few eggs in a small incubator at around the time a broody mom starts sitting. And when hatch day comes near -I move her and "her eggs" to a...

Any time any bird is laying an egg without the shell it is not getting enough calcium in it's diet. I supplement all my moms with a good amount of freely given calcium grit which is designed to fix such a need for calcium. If she goes for that grit with gusto you can know she really needed it...

I know this is after your original posting but this is my best goose hatching recipe and it works on fertile eggs. I raise Sebastopols. They are endangered simply because they only lay between 25-35 eggs per year. FIRST YEAR EGGS: almost never survive but I was sold some and hatched them out...

This is years after the first post but it seems we are all having different experiences with hatching and egg conditions, and I love to read old problem solving posts. I've hatched out tiny eggs and big hunkin eggs and have had success. Not all tiny eggs go on to develop to term. While the same...

My babies are starting to age as well. I make sure I cook up extra nutritious flock blocks for them with freeze dried fruits and vitamin booster. I'm a senior myself and I figured what we do for ourselves to maintain health is what we should also do for our chickens. Healthy foods, supplements...

I had to deal with a most aggressive rooster who was coercing a few of the hens who did not wish to partake in mating and simply ignored those who really desired to get their eggs fertilized. He wasn't going to take no for an answer. This was demoralizing the girls as a flock. We allowed him to...

Turkeys are very social birds. Her mate is dead. She has no bird companion and people are no longer cutting the need for companionship. Buy her a tom or get another female. She'd be happier with a tom. Her hormones are getting to her. Make sure and for certain of her gender, Two toms will most...

good to know. I bought so dog gone many eggs and the male to female ratio was way out of proportion. But The best way from feed back from others is to look between the legs I think. I'm working at teaching myself.I got my first egg. There was only one female in the first (and biggest) of three...

I am so sorry I never got back to your question. I had to have surgery- surprise surprise... I was told by my pastor's wife who is a waterfowl specialist to have a baby chick included with the baby turkeys. I had blue slate turkey babies. and got some of what I was told were buff Orpington...

BTW always use gentle movements and soft speaking when dealing with your wild girl, even if hissing. They respond to aggression with more aggression. All domestic livestock has started out as wild animals at some point in history. If you gather her eggs and hatch them out yourself and handle the...

wild turkeys do carry bird diseases. You will want to isolate her from the rest of your flock for 2 months [1 month at the very least] but within everyone's view (because they desperately need social contact with other turkeys). From what I have been reading the standard bronze turkey came here...

Too bad Missouri is so far away. I've got turkeys everywhere. Check craigslist. I usually have a Thanksgiving sale on birds. I sell mine on Craigslist but learned long ago meet some place very public and do the sale where you know they have security camerasMy truck will hold cages in the back...

Littlespragueoutdoors on tic toc has two ways of sexing baby turkeys and it seems to work out correctly so far.

I sell my birds on Craigs list.It helps pay for my high feed bills. At first I got a bunch of people who wanted my address and then not show up for the sale but in the middle of the night they think they will help themselves. We now meet in public places for all sales, and no compromises. But...

That tom will eventually have your females join with his hareem. Then you'll have no turkeys. I have read on occasion they will breed and you have a different sort of baby turkey. But where I live they warn that they will get your females to join them and you lose your flock. I decided to have...

I hatched out 3 batches of Midget White Turkey Eggs. My first batch were born April and another batch a couple weeks later and a third smaller batch early summer. They are all big enough to be grouped together. The males ratio to females is 3 to 1, luck of the draw I guess. We had to separate...