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We are thinking of expanding our flocks into more than chickens and turkeys. We arent breeders, just love our birds. I'm a beef and pork girl, so our birds live long spoiled lives. 40 chickens, 22 quail and 6 turkeys at the moment. We've been looking at pigeons and peacocks. The odd question...

Are peacocks truly a noisy as everyone says? I've been considering investing in a pair. They wouldn't free range without supervision, too many predators here, but noise constancy is a concern. I confess i despise my daughter's turkeys until they are about 3 years old. They're fine in mature...

So I'm new to quail, other than the million wild ones around here. We invested in 30 recently, and I'm in love. The babies were so tiny. 11 didn't make the trip but (hatchery order) they sent extras against that eventuality so we ended up with 22. Now I'm wondering, why can't i keep a...

I'm asking because i don't think you did. I've got baby chicks in here and my truck is bigger than your car... off you pop! Back to school dummy.

I live in far northern Maine for the last 7 years and i confess i hate it. I'm headed back to Louisiana soon. My dream place will have a 10' high hurricane fence where my chick's can "free range" without fear. Some of those fancy coops, maybe. Where they (and i) can go outside without...

Pics to follow of the slightly older chicks, but to get started, this 2day pic. For the 2 week pics, I have to wait til its warmer today so the colors show up. So these lovely ladies were billed as Pearl Star Leghorns. Grey...?? No LH in either parent of this breed! Sussex hen and Barred Rock...

I have raised more than 80 chickens at this point, and i notice one consistent thing across all breeds - the chicken little stage. I get the babies, ordered or from TSC, and fresh out of the box i handle them daily. Chickens aren't really petting animals, they don't groom each other even...

So year before last all 40 of my starter flock stopped laying within a week of each other. I changed coop arrangements, fenced, then free ranged, rooster then no roo, followed all the advice i found here. Nothing worked. In autumn i moved them into winter coops and still, maybe 5-7 eggs from...

On this past Friday i bought the last 13 bantams at TSC for my daughter. They were on sale for 1$ each, so what the heck. Throw a separate smaller elevated coop together in 4 hours. Got them home, transferred them to the 95⁰ brooder, checked their eating and drinking was all good. I saw the...

No idea what this chick is. It was advertised as a Pearl Star Leghorn, and I've never tried those though IM a fan of leghorns. But looked them up at home, and the Sussex and Barred Rock parentage of PSLs should never have grey chicks, right? The super-fine down and round body makes me think...

Ok, so a blue eyed chick and now a turkey poult with TWO vents. One vent to the right and one vent to the left of his tail stub. We got him to "fix" from the local stores where they don't like to dispatch the babies. This one was presumed prolapsed, but after removing the huge poop paste on its...

I've 4 new easter eggers, this is one, but has anyone seen an eye like this before? This is my first round of easter eggers, and brings me up to 40 chickens have raised so far. Oh they grow up so fast, lol If anyone has seen this, what does it potentially indicate? If anything? Pics dont do it...

To all guinea owners Advice solicited on keet raising anyone I ordered ten, split them with a neighbor and kept six (space issues) 4 died right away, same and next day. But two are splendidly growing. Here's my questions; Baby chicks actually tame down really well around my house, lol...

So i have a one year old flock, with several varieties of chickens. I currently have 18 adults and 16 babies Only the Jersey Giant is a roo - he's the benevolent flock daddy. The adults are 4 brahmas, 2 grey Plymouth, 1 aquila, 2 sagitta, 2 mystic Marans, 1 sebright bantam, 1 Patridge rock, 2...

So for two years I've been working on my homestead, chicken flock grown from 2 to 30. But the price of Guineas has kept me from investing. Wanted guinea for two years so badly. Finally bit the bullet and ordered 10 from Hoover Hatchery. (4 went to a neighbor who also wanted some.) They arrived...

I have a rescue hen, very small leghorn, about 4 years old (?) She was already laying large white eggs when we got her, and in terrible shape. Lived her entire life in a small cat kennel ankle deep in feces. So thick were the feces, so small the kennel, she couldn't stand up. We took her in and...

So I have a wonderful black jersey giant rooster. He's only about 7 months old, but shows the best habits already. He lives peacefully with 13 hens. I'm trying to figure out how to feed him more protein without the hens eating it up. Because they do. They are almost all laying and I feed them...