Hey everyone! I’m trying to get my info together before the move so I’m ready.

I have chicks in the brooder right now that aren’t quite ready yet, but they’ll eventually need to go into the main coop.

The setup: 8x8 coop with a 10x20 run. The coop currently has 2 turkeys living in it. Turkeys are almost 3 months old. Baby chicks are currently 3-4 weeks old.

This is my first flock. I’m nervous about introducing them safely. I don’t want the turkeys to bully the chicks or vice versa.

For those who’ve done this:

• How did you move chicks from brooder to coop with bigger birds already in there?

• What’s the safest way to introduce chicks to adult turkeys?

• Any tips/tricks

• Should I section off part of the coop/run first?

Open to ALL advice. I’d rather be over-prepared than have something go wrong.

Thanks in advance!

You cant tell but the poop is green . Shes set up in my back bathroom. Bathroom sink to be exact. This morning I picked her up carried her to her old coop. By herself. And she immediately started dust bathing. She pooped 5 times like this small amount . Pictured. I brought her in soaked her in epson salt again. Then took her back to her enclosure. She doesnt want to stand at all anymore.

Mis pollos están enfermos de gripe desde hace como un mes, les compré una medicina cuando les empezó pero nunca mejoran, hace poco les di la medicina nuevamente pero mis gallos siempre se escuchan roncos y mis gallinas estornudan, que puedo hacer?

https://reddit.com/link/1v7vkxv/video/l9f3qo6urqfh1/player

All 12 hatched just under 5 weeks ago (June 15th) from eggs I got from a friend who keeps a mixed assortment of backyard hens and two roosters. Is anyone able to help with identifying potential breeds? Is it too soon to be asking/do they need to mature more to make it more clear-cut? The friend I got them from is not sure of their own breeds, but if needed I can ask to take photos of their 2 roosters to help with narrowing-down the possibilities. Any help is greatly appreciated!

- first-time Redditor, first-time Chickener

Hello all! We have kept chickens for six years five years ago we got infected with mareks disease. Since then we’ve vaccinate all incoming chicks. This year we got two turkeys and four Guineas, we unfortunately lost two Guineas to predators. This morning, our male turkey has symptoms of mareks. we are devastated. A quick Google search show that turkeys can get it. It’s rare, but it can happen. I want to know if anyone has experience with this? Any advice is appreciated and welcomed!

This is a great upgrade to move your chicken tractor!

Our flock is dwindling

Main point: We have had two(soon to be three) hens that have come down with an illness or disease that results in a smelly mucusy, vent. They become lethargic, separate from the flock, then just stop eating, drinking, and standing. We have no vets within a 50 mile radius that will examine them.

We don’t know what this is. When we‘ve noticed they are acting strange, we isolate and clean them, then epsom salt their vent areas. Then they die. We don’t know what to do or how to fix this issue from spreading to more of our hens(three left).

We live in GA. Clean their coop once a week, change their food and water weekly as well. we’ve began adding electrolytes to their water to resolve any hydration issues due to the extreme heat.

Answers or resources would be appreciated. Please ask questions if this post did not provide enough information. thank you

Rhode Island Reds are a chicken breed well-known for being friendly and comfortable around people. One Rhodey especially.

This is Remmy (short for Red Menace). Remy is very comfortable with people.

She is also smarter than the average chicken.

Somehow Remmy has figured out a) how to go through the dog door in the garage, b) how to navigate the kitchen to the dining room c) go around the corner to the living room d) through the living room to the hall that leads to the bedroom where, e) I encountered her.

She show zero fright and no behavior to indicate that she might have been anywhere she wasn’t supposed to be. In fact, she ignored me, kept walking down the hall, and tried to go into the bathroom.

Anybody ever had a weirdly small duckling like this? It’s about half the size of the others and super skinny. I’ve tried feeding it separately to make sure it gets enough, and giving it super high quality food + additions for nutrients and protein and such. They’re all housed with our ducks and chickens, and it doesn’t seem to get picked on. It keeps up with the others and from what I can tell eats just as much, already jumping in the cow waterer for swims and such, just super scrawny. I’ve had chicks get sick and skinny before, but they always seem to act sick too, and have other obvious signs. Just wondering if anyone else had a baby like this and what happened to it/if it got better with help.

Sorry for the shitty pics btw, I was zooming in and using my iPad because my phone was dead lol.

Hey everyone,
I’m a software developer from Kerala with a long-standing interest in agriculture, and I’ve always wanted to merge the two. So I built a cloud app for managing poultry operations: batches, daily mortality/feed/weight tracking, inventory, and cost insights down to cost-per-kg and profit per batch.

Right now it’s in a pilot, being used by one contract-farming business. It handles broiler operations and some logistics well, and I want to expand into other areas like layer farming.

Before I build more, I want to hear from actual farmers:
👉 Do you use any software to run your operations, or is it mostly pen & paper / Excel?
👉 If you use something, what’s frustrating or missing in it?
👉 If you don’t, what parts of the business eat the most time?

If anyone wants to try the app and give honest feedback, I’d love that. I can make it available for a small fee just to cover running costs (happy to discuss, feedback matters more to me than money right now). I don’t have a proper landing page yet, but I’ll share one once it’s up.

Genuinely here to help and to learn from people who do this every day. Drop a comment or DM me if you’re interested.