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12 eggs for me again today.
On the bad news side, I found one of my hens dead in the chicken yard. No signs of attack. Am wondering if the tom turkey tried to breed her and broke her.
Someone on the turkey thread suggested I check her for a broken back and lots of bruising. Will try to do that tomorrow. I'm hoping that is not what happened because I don't want to get rid of the turkey or lock him up. He flies between the 2 chicken yards and usually spends the night outside perched on the top door cross piece between the 2 yards. I guess I could get him some more female turkeys ( but it would take a while for them to grow up), but I'm not sure that my husband would approve of that plan.
I'm not 100% sure but she appeared to be one of the more recent layers. So probably around a year.That was a sad news sorry to hear. How old was the hen?
I'm not 100% sure but she appeared to be one of the more recent layers. So probably around a year.
I have been trying to come up with a good way to band or tag them so I can keep track of how old the different birds are. However both methods I have tried in the past did not work out well for me or some of the birds. I bought some of the different colored split ring type plastic bands in the size listed for my birds. However some of them slipped off and others had their leg grow into the band. It was quite gross and I'm sure very painful for the chicken (especially when I had to remove the band).
The other method I tried was using different colored zip ties. But I had similar issues as well as 1 chicken that some how managed to get it's toe of the same leg stuck up in the zip tie!
So I am still trying to find a better method for keeping track of the ages of the various hens in the flock.