She doesn't let me get too close but I will try, this weekend.
I am 99% sure those are her babies as all the other hens I have are white.
They are freaking adorable and I am looking forward to seeing how Chicken handles things when the turkeys are just a little bigger. :)
Oh! I was at the feed store, this week, and asked them if they knew what breed the turkey I got from them was. They said it was a Black Spanish. So possibly that is what she is :)
This was taken, last night, of the chicken and her five turkey babies.
The Royal Palm Hen ended up with four babies. They are all doing well.
Thanks for everything, you guys!!
That makes sense. So then I am assuming that his telling me they don't live past 6-7 months is a lie, too? :) He is an older man who knows "everything"
Thank you. That is very interesting.
My neighbor told me, this weekend, that Broad Breasted are sterile and so not to expect any babies from the two that I have. I thought that was kind of weird, because where would the next batch of Broad Breasted come from?
My two are 5 months old and, if...
I am sorry, I am new to this... what is a CG carrier?
Our local feed store gets in a shipment of chicks once a year and has a big sale. So far, everything I have gotten from them has been healthy and good quality. I got 20 Buff Orpington chickens from them, this year as well as two Broad...
When I bought her, I also bought a gray turkey (Ended up being a Tom, though, so we didn't keep him) they said "Slate", but I thought they were talking about the Grey one. I didn't realize there was a black slate as well.... I will have to see if the store remembers what turkeys they had last...
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I had a lone Royal Palm Tom and so I bought him a couple girlfriends. I know one is a Royal Palm but I do not know what the other one is.
We took 12 eggs to the neighbor, who had a broody chicken and no rooster, so she sat and we have five babies, as of yesterday. They are all...
This happened at night. Or early enough in the morning for me not to be out there, yet. I feed at 530am, though, so it would have had to be pretty early. I have four acres that are perimeter fenced with 5' no climb horse fencing. Then the run an coop are fenced inside of that. I didn't think...
I am growing Wormwood for my goats and horses... curious if this would be a good natural dewormer for chickens, too?
I currently sprinkle DTE on their feed... I was told it would help with all internal parasites
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Night before last, something took a nice bite out of my turkey hen. By the time I got home from work last night, the other birds had been picking at her and she now has three different lesions. I took her into the house, washed her with warm water, put some ointment on it and...
I have not seen him mount her, yet. He fans out and "dances" for her but I haven't seen it go past that. She has completely deserted the chicken run, though, and hangs out with him all day. So any chance I had of her mating with the turkey are pretty much gone.
(Unless she decides to go back...
Thank you. It was hard to see. I never knew Turkeys would do that. She mostly stays out of the run, lately. A peacock showed up on our property a couple months ago and she has been climbing the fence to hang out with him. She has laid a nice clutch of eggs under one of the bushes on the property...
I have a Royal Palm Tom and I had purchased two broad breasted this March in order to butcher... one of them is for sure a hen and she chirps at my tom all the time (they are in a separate pen but can see each other). I was thinking about not butchering her and letting them do what comes natural...