I love seeing you with your turkey! She is so sweet! “She’s pardoned.” I enjoyed your whole video! Thank you for making your content! You have a great sense of humor!
@@kerannasommers7324 it’s very scary. The key is really bright lights. It really helps when you look around and see there is nothing down there waiting to eat you 😅
I have three roosters right now, all separate from the hens currently. My oldest boy (Eclipse) is a mix of Faverolle and Jersey Giant so he's pretty big. After only having him with the hens for two weeks he tears their backs up.. does your rooster tear his hens backs up too? I don't know how to prevent it and if its just because hes too big for our hens? We have lots of different breeds but some of them are Amarucanas. Too small?
@@bloodshotrose3374 he has a few favorites that sometimes get raw on their back. You can always put saddles on the hens that are taking most of the damage. That was what I did!
@@pretendfarm Yes, I do put saddles on them but, 12 of the 14 hens have bald backs from Him. (That is why I have him separate right now, to give the girls a chance to grow them back a bit, and I have two molting.) Should I just limit the time he's out with them? I do give the chickens plenty of protein and they have a lot of space so there shouldn't be any bordem picking.
I heard you say turn lights off around run at night to detour predators? I have solar lights around coop and run which usually go out by 1-2am. But I like to see the area from my window . Is this wrong? I’m a first timer lol. I do have a camera I’ll set up too, tho. I think I’ve seen that they use when the night solar light comes on to go into coop? I appreciate finding your video! Thank you!🥰
I’m actually going through this with a rooster right now! We’ve been giving him selenium 3 times a day and for the first couple days he couldn’t eat or drink without help. I carry him around with me almost all day and make sure he’s doing good. Now he can eat and drink on his own and he’s loving life. It looks like he will be one that has it for a month before it goes away.
I really appreciate this video. And the fact that you also did a 1 week a 2 week and a 3 week update on her recovery. That helps a lot other people just upload the video. What they did for the sprain or the injured leg but never do an update so we could see if what they did work. I have a precious little silky. We don't know what's wrong with our leg, but we splintered it. Which is a very young chicken. We're not had to put her in a cradle because she couldn't stand on the leg at all and she was just laying down and she was having trouble eating and drinking because she couldn't get to the food
I've used ivermectin and safeguard for years both work wonderful and you're right the dosing on the bag when they tell you to use a scoop that doesn't exist is pretty frustrating. Then they give you a website to go to for the dosing calculator and the website doesn't work confidence builder there! Really want to guess my horse or my goats so I'm still going to use it but obviously I'm gonna keep going on here until I find somebody who figured out how to do this stuff!!!😂
Awww, I love how you and Pearl have porch time! I don’t think she’ll make it to the table any time soon. 😉I predict she’ll stay as the resident pet turkey. I have a question about baby chicks. How long have your past baby chicks slept in the nest boxes? I have 7 eight week old babies that are on their own, but still sleep in the nesting boxes. I’ve tried putting them on the roosts, but my teenage pullets peck at them, so I haven’t tried to train them any further. Do you think they’ll go up on their own when they’re big enough to defend themselves?
@@primitivedaisy Sam stay in the nest box longer than others but I found that when they’re ready they always make their way up. Just give them time and they’ll go when they’re ready ☺️
@@godsdaughter7556 if we get a really bad storm with a lot of wind and rain and it blows it sideways, it will actually get a little damp in the shavings. This is something that happens a couple times a year and I change my bedding out weekly so it’s never been an issue, but it does happen.
Thank you Pretend Farmer. I'm getting my first birds tomorrow & they will be free ranging, they're already doing that in the farm I'm getting them from so I'm hoping they acclimate to our place we'll. New subscriber
Can squirrel get in to that feeder? They got into mine feeder n waisting my feed😰I have to go away soon n I need a feeder that not squirrel or other animals can get into other than chicken.
@@unchana5652 so far I’ve had no trouble with squirrels or rodents. It’s too hard for them to scurry up the metal pole and even if they did they’d have to go up over the base to enter the feed compartment
See I get eggs around that size alll the time... from my silkies and frizzles xD I didn't know about actual fairy eggs though. I haven't seen anything like that from my bigger birds.
I got my first fairy egg a couple of weeks ago from one of my Welsumers, I think. It was so cute! But no yolk, so went into some scrambled eggs I made that day. 😊🐓
