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    Droopy neck Legbar

    I ordered hatching eggs this year and I hatched 6 Legbar chickens. 3 males , 3 females. Recently something has been going on with them. They seem to be lethargic and have a drooping necks. One was also twitching and couldn’t keep still. I have kept chickens on my property for 4 years and never...
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    Lilac and Dilute/Dilute Blue gosling down

    So every year I like to hatch a few eggs from crosses just to see the colors that come out. This year I have a Buff Toulouse gander that has been mating an Embden goose. I ran the calculator to see what could be the possible results and I noticed dilute, dilute blue, and lilac were the outcomes...
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    Turkey laying mystery

    So this is my first experience with turkey breeding season. I have three separate breeding groups of turkeys, a pair, a trio, and a Tom with four hens. The group consisting of the Tom and four hens are not laying any eggs at all and are the most mature of the three groups I have. I’m getting...
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    Bumble in between toes?

    I am thinking one of my turkeys has a bumble sore in between toes. I’ve not yet had a bird with bumble foot… I have read soaking with epsom salt and removing the plug and then wrapping the foot sometimes helps… I don’t think I can wrap this as it’s in between the toes. Anyone more experienced...
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    First time processing turkey

    Hello meat bird people 👋 I have been processing meat birds for about two years now. I still consider myself to be fairly new to the processes involved. I have done a number of chickens, ducks, and mostly geese. This year I added heritage turkeys to that list and am pretty excited to try them...
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    Molpet, R2elk, Casportpony, & other turkey people: can you look at this poult?

    This evening when I went out to check on the 4 week old poults in the outdoor brooder, one was acting odd. I have never seen a poult vomit, but this looked like that was what it was trying to do perhaps. Any of you all have any idea what is going on? Info on the poult in question: -4 weeks old...
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    Strange duck appeared

    This morning I was greeted by my ducks, but this time they showed up with friends… Are these hybrid ducks or some variety I’m not familiar with? I only keep Muscovy so my knowledge of other varieties is limited. I couldn’t find many images that looked close. I figured maybe a mallard / khaki...
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    Crossbred Poults ID

    I got some breeders choice crossbred poults from Porter’s recently. There’s some that have residual marker on them I think, but I can’t really tell what they may be. Anyone want to help me identify what types I have here? I’ll update and take more pictures as they grow. At this stage I don’t...
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    Geese for meat

    I know there’s lots of meat chicken talk going on… I like chicken, it’s good. But, where are all the people that also eat geese? I know I’m not the only one! I started with laying hens but added geese within a year. Now I keep way less chickens and more geese as the meat is “meatier” lol hard to...
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    Debating introducing eggs or chicks to broody hens.

    So I have a a handful of eggs in the incubator with around 6 days to go until hatch… I have wanted to use broody hens for raising chicks for a while, but I have not gotten the chance till now… I’m wondering if it’s better to let the eggs hatch under the broody hens or if I should let them hatch...
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    Dimorphic and Dilute

    So I’ve been playing with these color calculators off and on this season. I like it, but I keep getting hung up because I don’t know the definitions as well as I should yet and the photos on the calculators are not great to compare to real birds…forgive me for asking repeated questions about...
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    Buff Dewlap Toulouse

    I ordered a dozen hatching eggs this spring and now have 6 Buff Dewlap Toulouse goslings. Anyone else here raise this variety? They’re from Ester Run Farm in OH. I look forward to seeing how they develop, some of the flock photos in the website they’re from look like dewlap Toulouse, others...
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    Muscovy Duck heterochromia (split blue/ brown eyes)

    Hi all, usually I lurk around the goose forum but I also keep Muscovy Ducks, which are very similar to geese but have more color variations. I have a genetic trait question 🧬 🧐 I have a drake that comes from a mixed flock of almost every plumage color except some of the barred types. He...
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    Buff dewlap Toulouse Wrong end pips and saddled air cells

    I am currently in lockdown on a dozen Buff Dewlap Tolouse hatching eggs I ordered this spring. There were issues from the start… the post office took 6 days to get our “2 day shipping” order of hatching eggs to us. I let the eggs settle for 24 hours and then incubated the same as any of my other...
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    Turkeys and Electric Netting

    Does anyone range heritage turkeys using electric netting? I am new to keeping turkeys, I hatched 10 Narragansett poults about a week ago now and will have a few weeks before they go out to pasture. My plan is to grow them out and retain a tom and 3, maybe 4 hens… But my plan may be foiled...
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    Piebald / mixed breed color variation

    I saw another thread where discussion of goose plumage and genetic stuff was going on… needless to say, at my experience level I did not understand much of it. I got that some genes are dilute and others are dominant. But that’s pretty much it… this year I’ve hatched some goslings that were a...
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    Goose nest smelling off

    I normally incubate goose eggs, but this year I wanted to see if one of my geese would do it all on her own. She’s an American Buff but I believe the eggs are a combination of her eggs and some from an Embden. There’s around 30 eggs under her. I went to check on things and got a feint whiff of...
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    Poke Weed and geese

    Now that plants are growing abundantly I’ve noticed some strange grazing habits. I’ve allowed geese to graze some areas they haven’t before and I’ve seen them eating the stems and leaves of poke weed. My limited knowledge was based on what I can read online regarding poke weed toxicity, the...
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    Post your 2023 Goslings!

    I think it would be cool to have a thread where everyone can post photos of goslings you’ve hatched or received this year. Has anyone been trying new breeding pairs, breeding for select colors? Stuff like that. I will start with a small pile of mixed breed geese. (Embden, American Buffs...
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    Anyone care to guess the sex of these mixed breeds?

    I incubated and hatched 12 chickens (hatched March 18). I mostly hatched these for fun and to see what color eggs these would lay as they are Prairie Bluebell Eggers x Black Copper Marans x Blue laced Red Wyandottes x Easter eggers. They come from a flock of 25 birds and there is one rooster...
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