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My turkeys, ducks, and chickens are ready to transfer to an all flock feed. However, my local TSC does not have all-flock crumbles. They only have pellets. Last time I tried giving my birds pellets they didn't eat them unless they were crushed. How can I get them to eat the pellets?

My 8 week old keets just fought yesterday and the other keet's head started to bleed a little bit. then the losing keet crouched down and the fight was over. Are my keets both male? I thought one was a female since one is a little smaller than the other.

Of the various homestead ducks, I have two favorites: Mallards and khaki Campbells. Mallards have a nice flying ability and tend to stick around the area that they were raised in. They are super active and good at foraging. Khaki Campbells are super egg layers, which is what the mallard lacks...

life with chickens, turkeys, ducks, quail, and guineas in a neighborhood 😅 rainy day photos: Chicken government committee meeting (mr boss rooster is on the far left side of the circle) Mallards are super quiet for 99% of the day but when the females quack they quack loudly for a good 20...

Ive got four young OEG bantams. I plan to free range them but have them return back to the coop at dusk. Do old english gamefowl have the coop-returning instinct or are they too wild to return to their coop (like junglefowl).

I had a coturnix quail raise my two guinea keets, and these are the quietest guineafowl I have ever seen. Whenever they are near the quail, they barely make a noise, and they barely get spooked by anything. Compared to guinea-raised keets (that get scared of leaves falling down trees), these...

First time with my dream chickens, old english game bantams. Is their care any different from other baby chicken care? They kinda cute but really fragile. I got 3 dutches and 1 duckwing. Will they lay eggs by this summer or will they have to overwinter without laying? its May now and it...

i free range my turkeys, guineas, mallarsd, and RIRs. I am thinking about adding in a few medium sized bantams to my flock. will they get demolished or bullied?

I have a fox issue and I need a dog to defend my turkeys/ducks/guineas. However, I have a really small acreage and I cannot fit a dog like a pyrenees. Even a cocker spaniel is capable of scaring away a fox, but they have a hunting instinct (not good for my birds). Is there such thing as a...

There is a small eastern cottontail roaming my basement. How do I get it out of there?

My 2 keets are almost 6 weeks old, and I plan to free range them with the rest of my birds. I have some rhode Island red pullets and a few turkeys and ducks that all free range and now return to their coop at evening. It took a while for the turkeys to get used to this, but now they are the...

Why do chickens sing the egg song? Is there any breed that does not? I had a barred rock make my neighbors file a noise complaint. She used to cackle even when she did not lay an egg. The second I open the coop door, however, she is silent for the whole day. Do chickens sing the egg song to get...

They are super easy to catch, all you need is some birdseed. How loud is a white pilgrim goose? Will two pilgrim geese be loud enough to startle neighbors? I heard that they were a quiet breed.

I am interested in getting English game fowl or junglefowl because o want a bird that is ok with roosting in trees overnight and a bird that is capable of flying away from foxes. Since they roost in trees, will they sing their egg song in the morning like coop birds? Are they super loud?

I live in a close-knit suburban neighborhood and I have 4 teenage turkey poults, quail, 4 ducks, and two guinea keets. I had to get rid of my chickens once because my neighbors did not like them clucking at 5AM. My turkeys are extremely quiet and they are a bronze heritage breed (so if my...

I picked up two small keets from my feed store and they were super stressed. They were not eating food or drinking water, and they were absolutely terrified of humans. I heard that keeping them with chicks will make them somewhat less wild and loud. My chicks are too old to be kept with these...

Today a polite red fox came to visit my garden and admire my ducks, turkeys, and chickens.. It was a good thing I was there to scare the fox away. This is the first fox visit I have ever had with this new spring clutch. My fence is really short that even my turkeys jump out of it often, which...

I wanted to pen up my 6 week old bronze heritage turkeys until their adults before letting them free range but they had other plans... They stayed in the pen for a few weeks and then they began flying out of the pen and wandering my garden. I gave up trying to contain them and I just leave the...

I am raising two mallard ducklings from McMurray hatchery along with my other farm ducklings. I know that the farm ducks can free range because they have lost most of their flight ability, but mallards can fly well. So far, they stick around with the farm ducklings and do not really leave them...