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Uploaded by on Nov 20, 2008

Backyard chickens and turkeys after an early snowfall. They were all sent to the processor a few days after this and came back with dressed weights of 29lbs, 23lbs, 21lbs, and 19lbs.

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  • Keeping turkeys and hens in the same coop can promote a disease that is deadly to turkeys called blackhead.

  • They only ever suffered from severed head.

  • Your birds seem to handle the snow and cold really well. The fox in my area LOVED attacking my broad-breasted bronze turkeys. Hopefully you won't have the same problem. Great egg production by the way. wow!

  • yeah...they are (were - the turkeys all went to freezer camp)) a hardy bunch. my hens have been sticking it out in the cold with only straw bale insulation (no hydro) and it has been a very cold winter so far! still laying daily!

    a little trick i've come up with is putting a bucket of fresh snow in the coop everyday along with a bucket of fresh water.... the water freezes after 5 or 6 hours, but the snow stays soft so they can peck and eat it. they think it's a treat!

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  • @kwikflikz Very good aswer!

  • I'm amazed at how many eggs you got from the small amounts of hens u have and even in the short days of winter.

  • Great egg production! What do you feed them? We only have chickens now, and are trying to get their egg production up! (we mix our own feed) Great video- would like to do turkey next year!

  • @ravenkid33 thats funny severed head is always fatal.LOL

  • did you clip there wings

  • @kwikflikz Is condition curable? HAHAHAHA

  • @ravenkid33 they chopped the heads off of them

  • That is a lot of eggs! And nice looking broilers - we were given two to eat and they were delicious - so we may try rearing them ourselves this year...

  • what are you doing when you go in to the coop?

  • Haaa very very cute

    @RuthieAppleby

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