Recent content by cgmccary

Usually 6–12 months with 7 months my average.

yes! I have raised chickens and turkeys together for years and all get turkey starter. The fact is the chicks grow better on it. Poults must have turkey starter.

I raise turkeys and chickens together. I also have blackhead on the property. I keep young turkeys on oregano oil with piperine in their water until they are 10-12 weeks old. It works great as a blackhead preventative. I learned the trick from Peter Brown years ago aka the Chicken Doctor. I...

Storey’s Guide is one yes, written by my close friend, Don Schrider and I recommend an older book, “Turkey Management” by Stanley Marsden. Also, two great manuals published by the Livestock Conservancy, “Selecting Your Best Turkeys for Breeding” and “How to Raise Heritage Turkeys on Pasture,” I...

You took them to a lab and had that confirmed? What lab? Show me the report. You know what kills most poults in first four weeks? It is not blackhead and not coccidiosis. Blackhead in the first month is quite rare.

Corid is a thiamine (vitamin B1) blocker and is used only to prevent or treat coccidiosis. It does nothing for worms, and it does nothing for blackhead. Should you use Corid in case of what exactly?

They can actually have worms out of the egg, 1 day old, but it is roundworms that are on eggshell itself. Chicks, poults and everything on wire in brooders in my basement I use wazine at 4 weeks old but worm JUST ONCE at the early age. I should have been more specific and said the worm (cecal...

Poults hatched on May 5 should not be on Safeguard, nor any wormer. It could kill them. They also should not have blackhead already. The medication, Metronidazole, will kill poults that age. Corid does not prevent blackhead and it is not a wormer. It is a thiamine blocker that acts to starve...

Yes I exhibit Black Turkeys so I know what the APA calls them. In fact, I won the Turkey Extravaganza this past November with one of my Blacks and the third year in a row I won champion turkey at Ohio National with a Black cock. I maintain three separate Black lines. The exact variety is also...

Two Jennys and a Jake

Everything wants to eat a chicken. I use three Great Pyrenees dogs as livestock guardians. I live in a national forest and would get wiped out if I did not have the dogs and it wouldn't matter what kind of chickens I kept. The Pyrenees make what I have possible.

Oh I have other toms with 10-15 hens. I keep three lines of Blacks and my breeding pens can vary from a specific pairing to one tom with 15 hens. I decide what I am breeding to what each year. This is not a difference of opinion but a difference in what we are trying to accomplish in breeding. I...