Recent content by Missi

Still have your Sweetgrass? I'm looking for poults or fertile eggs. I'm in South Florida.

It's not the normal squeal. It's a distressed cry. Like when chicks in a brooder are too cold, only louder.

One of my black Spanish turkey hen is getting some moderate scratches on a bald patch under her wing. I noticed her "crying" as the tom was mating her, which was unusual. I had a close look at her and found the wounds. I have only a trio of turkeys and do not want to separate the tom so does...

That was the original poster, not me

It's courtship behavior. If you'll have another look at my comment, I state that I know what the behavior means. I was simply sharing a funny story being that my hubby thought my tom was having a seizure the first time he saw him doing his stomp dance.

Hubby saw our 4.5 month old black Spanish tom doing this the other day (I had previously seen him do it several times before because I spend more time with the birds) and he thought he was having a seizure! I knew better because I read up on turkeys before getting them.

Here are my 13 week old black Spanish females (ordered from Purely Poultry but shipped from Cackle Hatchery). The female is front right. See the markings on her breast feathers & the gray/blue wing feathers? There is another female behind her with gray feathers. They also have lots of markings...

One of my 13 week old black Spanish (ordered from Purely Poultry but shipped from Cackle Hatchery) with a bronze tail feather & faint lines in his flight feathers! What the heck?? If you're a professional company & say you're selling a certain breed, why sell mixes??? Anyhow, my 2 males aren't...

Since I posted that, I bought 5 black Spanish poults through Purely Poultry but they shipped from Cackle Hatchery (Purely Poultry doesn't raise their own birds? What's their point, then?). They are now 13 weeks old. Most of them have feathers here & there with patterning or light colored. Guess...

Such a sweet looking girl You expect to get green eggs from her, right?

I am considering keeping her (lets think positive, not rationally LOL) even if she turns out to be a boy. Time will tell. So if she turns out to be a roo, if I breed him back to any hen (not just naked neck hens), he'll make naked neck babies?

OMG It is literally a naked neck cream legbar! LOL

Here it is dry. Probably a boy???

I had a chick hatch this morning from a crested cream legbar hen mated by a turken (naked neck)/easter egger mix roo. What can you tell me about this chick? Would it be auto-sexing? I hope not because it doesn't have dark chipmunk stripes down its back, which would mean male!

I ordered a bottle of Tylan 50 from Jeffers for my poultry first aid kit. It arrived yesterday and I noticed its expiration date is 01/2016 which is...less than a year! Does Tylan just have a short shelf life or should I email Jeffers and ask for a different bottle?