Recent content by jennajolynne

It all started about a month ago. A friend of mine visited some of their friends who knows this guy who every year gets bored with the animals he has collected and gives them away. To make a long story short, she came home with 5 guinea fowl and 3 red bourbon toms and gave me one of the toms. I...

This is helpful thank you! I have heard so many people say they won't go inside. I am thinking of just building them a tall perch or a lean-to with no sides, just a top and perches.

Hello all. I was wondering if you could show me some of your turkey "houses". I have heard turkey's don't care to be cooped so I was wondering what everyone uses in the winter to keep them protected? I live in upstate NY where it gets very cold in the winter and I don't really have any tree...

We have checked the neighbors yard but there is a large heavily wooded area across the road as well as a large tall grassy field.

No feathers in sight

So my red bourbon hens are fairly new, I have had them two weeks. We kept them in a separate hoop coop with our red bourbon tom we got for free about a month ago. After a week of caring for them we slowly started to let them out (supervised) for a few hours. The first day I went to my neighbors...

Looks like a roo to me

12 weeks

The OE is 11 weeks

I forgot to add the olive egger....

I have two that are questionable. One is an olive egger, the other is supposedly a freedom ranger crossEd with a RIR. Thoughts?

Honestly I think this is too much. The most I will pay is $10-$15. I have gotten burned a few times now too. I was sold a hen that didn't lay and a hen that was crippled that we ended up having to cull. Make sure you know what you are getting. It might be worth the wait to buy pullets and wait...

I posted some pictures above.