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They are 8 months 3 weeks old. We put up a roost for them three nights ago and another one last night. We checked on them just after dark last night and one on them was on the roost. We caught the other two and put them both up on them also. It was kind of cute, because the one that had...

We kept our heritage turkeys in a pen and they do fly up to their roost (they started flying in their pen at just a few weeks old). When we thought they were big enough, we let them out of their pen. They just sat on the ground the last two nights and did not fly up to any place to roost. How...

We kept our heritage turkeys (they started flying in their pen at just a few weeks old) in a pen and they do fly up to their roost. When we thought they were big enough, we let them out of their pen. They just sat on the ground the last two nights and did not fly up any place to roost. How do we...

Thank You everyone. He does not act sick, so hopefully its just scabs from a scraped head!

I went out to do the turkey chores last evening and saw one of them had strange Scabs on its head (this is the first season we have had turkeys). My husband told me he has seen them be pretty hard on each other at times. The turkey is eating and acting fine. I just was wondering if this is...

We will have to spend more time figuring out who is the problem. We have removed two, we thought were the problem and put them in with the turkeys. But I think we have two others.

Yes, thank you! I think she will be in my hospital for quit a little bit. However long it takes for feathers to grow in on a raw bald hind end.

I had two hens that were getting plucked by some other hens. I removed them for a couple weeks and reintroduced them last night. I got home today and one was dead and the other had all her tail feathers out. I brought the plucked one into my hospital in the garage. I was wondering how I...

This summer I started with 11 turkeys. I have 9 now. My chickens killed one and my dog killed another. They are 2 months old now and it’s pretty clear what they are. The males are very colorful on their heads and their snoods are are now starting to hang over the side of their beak, while the...

I had my 1month old turkey get into my chicken pen. The hens roughed her up pretty good. The top of her head, neck and back was skinned. My husband was in the harvest field and so I drive an hour and a half to our closest vet (my husband was not happy I did this for a $6.00 turkey). My vet...

I posted some pictures below. If you need more information, let me know. It is truly the BEST thing we have done and now I don't get crabby at them for being wasteful. We just made one for our 4-10 week old chicks a few days ago and they are doing great with it. We built one for our cousin...

I would LOVE that!

That sounds great! My chickens are a hobby for me and I need them to be fun and not too much work. 9 months of the year I am away from home 12 hours a day. I am not comfortable putting my chicks outside until they are about 10 weeks old. Even then we can easily have our night temperatures...

Here are some pictures of our waterers and feeders we have made. I loved my waterer we made for my hens last summer. They used it well and the water lasted about 10 days for my 10 hens. I did put a bowl of water out also for them and a mister when it was very hot. My husband has been...