I raise turkeys and have had good experience in Northern California raising turkey poults in a large run until 3-4 months old not fully imprinting bu
very interesting color on some of those!
That doesn’t look like a flock mate did that. I have had injuries like that on a turkey hen who got away looks like something grabbed them but she got away.
Similar thing has happened to pure phoenix pred grabbed tail instead of skin in that instance.
One of the fathers here on the farm started eating his chicks alive. His chicks lived with him from hatch day to about 1 month old I came to feed them he had eaten out the crop and eaten the neck of one of his children….. I was so mad at him. He was cooped him and that’s when I had the...
My mixed Asian breeds chase and catch small song birds that try to steal food also chase and fight rats. A rat got into a coop I went out right at sun up thinking something was getting into my coop it was a hen attacking a invading rat. The oriental mixed breeds definitely are fierce carnivores.
Have you seen “Yuba City Chickens? Feral flock in California.
I have been working on my lines. They roost high in trees but I have some determined racoons…..