Here, I will be posting update of my journey. Though I have been in the business of rearing birds (not for commercial though).
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I intend to use this present sets for my breeding plan.
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Currently, I have

i. 2 local fowls (females, I intend using them to hatch)
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ii. 4 Turkeys
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iii. 3 Noilers
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iv. 2 Naked Necks
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v. 1 black cockreal
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vi. 5 goats

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PS: all my animals are ALWAYS strictly on ORGANIC MEDICATION

So I got the DOC on the 7th of December, 2022.
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Someone did the stress of nursing them for me till 4 weeks.
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This is them at 3 weeks +

As at today, the chickens and turkeys are 7weeks old.
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They are all on free range.
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Pic 1. Turkey
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Pic 2. Nacked Neck

I will advise you to get more local chickens, if indeed you want to use them for hatching.

My 2 youngest goats. Male and female (got them 5k each)
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I got them as an orphan, their mother was killed when they were 1 and half months old. With the help of God, they survived every obstacles

this ones go dey useful for Easter celebration

Gift96:
this ones go dey useful for Easter celebration

very well.
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But I plan on using all to breed my future farm animals

With the help of God, they survived every obstacles
This got me...

Waooo, I love this. I have similar farm too, but I don't have local hen except for one that was hatched by my frizzle noiler, a local roster crossed her.
I have been breeding and making money from it though not big money but I enjoy watching them grow.
I sold all my turkey and left one, she has been laying for few weeks now, she will go broody in few days or week, I intend giving her frizzle noiler eggs to hatch.
I have 3 naked neck too, but I don't like the female, it's too small and not mesty like the male, I ate one of the male and sold one, I only have the female remaining, I don't plan to harched it eggs again, cos I have 2 that I hatched and I'm not happy with their growth.
But I still have 5 frizzle feather noiler, their mother and the children, I have sold their father, but the children are now older and crossing thehens among them and their mother, one has started laying including the mother. Their mother usually go broody and hatch her eggs herself

epondudu:
With the help of God, they survived every obstacles
This got me...

ahbi nah, kids wey nor suck breast, e easy.

Redomi:
Waooo, I love this. I have similar farm too, but I don't have local hen except for one that was hatched by my frizzle noiler, a local roster crossed her.
I have been breeding and making money from it though not big money but I enjoy watching them grow.
I sold all my turkey and left one, she has been laying for few weeks now, she will go broody in few days or week, I intend giving her frizzle noiler eggs to hatch.
I have 3 naked neck too, but I don't like the female, it's too small and not mesty like the male, I ate one of the male and sold one, I only have the female remaining, I don't plan to harched it eggs again, cos I have 2 that I hatched and I'm not happy with their growth.
But I still have 5 frizzle feather noiler, their mother and the children, I have sold their father, but the children are now older and crossing thehens among them and their mother, one has started laying including the mother. Their mother usually go broody and hatch her eggs herself

Wow, this is a lovely read for me.
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Mind sharing pictures with us.
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This your naked neck story is frightened to me. I hope mine will do well, because this is the first time I am rearing naked neck birds

rainmoredays:
Wow, this is a lovely read for me.
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Mind sharing pictures with us.
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This your naked neck story is frightened to me. I hope mine will do well, because this is the first time I am rearing naked neck birds

I will share pictures. The males are very big and active, but the female naked neck is not as big as normal noiler

But for best result, I will advise you feed your livestocks very well. Free ranging won't give you the result you want.
For example, my chicken and turkey will start laying another clutch of eggs 3 weeks after hatching, but if they are on free range, that won't happen

1. All of them
2. Mother naked neck
3. Mother frizzle feather
4. One of the baby naked neck

1. All of them are eggs layed by the frizzle feather and hatched by the turkey.
2. Another baby naked neck, 5weeks old
3. One of the baby frizzle about to start laying
4. Frizzle roster, already crossing

1. White from the frizzle mother too, but not frizzle like other, it is somehow sizzle feather
2. Frizzle mother layed her eggs too, but it was crossed by a local roster,I don't know why the colour is black cos the roster that cross her is not white.
3. Egg layers, one of the baby from the frizzle
4. Eggs layed so far, all fertile eggs, I don chop two from the eggs

Redomi:
1. White from the frizzle mother too, but not frizzle like other, it is somehow sizzle feather
2. Frizzle mother layed her eggs too, but it was crossed by a local roster,I don't know why the colour is black cos the roster that cross her is not white.
3. Egg layers, one of the baby from the frizzle
4. Eggs layed so far, all fertile eggs, I don chop two from the eggs

Please, how do you know fertile eggs? Are their yolks usually tainted with blood?

IamAsiri:


Please, how do you know fertile eggs? Are their yolks usually tainted with blood?

1. When I have a mature roster among my birds.

2. When I broke an egg, there is this ring form you notice among the white/natural colour, not the yellow yolk o

The first two eggs I broke, I thought they are not fertilized eggs, untill I saw the round form, it was then I started monitoring my roster in the third day I saw one crosing the egg layer

Redomi:
B..

BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFULL.
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This is classical and awesome
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I actually do feed my chickens and turkeys morning and evening very well with feeds. After that, I release them to play around till evening when I locked them up again (that's what I meant by free range.)
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So do you actually sell your chickens out or you are rearing just for personal consumption
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One of my adult boiler started laying 5 days ago. I took 2 out of the eggs today (that's one of the beauty of boiler too, {egg production}

rainmoredays:
BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFULL.
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This is classical and awesome
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I actually do feed my chickens and turkeys morning and evening very well with feeds. After that, I release them to play around till evening when I locked them up again (that's what I meant by free range.)
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So do you actually sell your chickens out or you are rearing just for personal consumption
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One of my adult boiler started laying 5 days ago. I took 2 out of the eggs today (that's one of the beauty of boiler too, {egg production}

waooo, that's lovely, they will surely lay fertile eggs if there is a roster around to cross them.
I'm also looking forward to one day cross a broiler hen with a noiler roster.
Yes I sell some and sometimes I eat some, but I sell most, I only eat few.

Redomi:
waooo, that's lovely, they will surely lay fertile eggs if there is a roster around to cross them.
I'm also looking forward to one day cross a broiler hen with a noiler roster.
Yes I sell some and sometimes I eat some, but I sell most, I only eat few.

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Broiler x Noiler, omoh the experiment go hard small o.
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I am not saying its impossible o, but...
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rainmoredays:

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Broiler x Noiler, omoh the experiment go hard small o.
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I am not saying its impossible o, but...
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it is very possible. I have done noiler hem and local roster twice.

Redomi:
it is very possible. I have done noiler hem and local roster twice.

I am particularly interested in that boiler hen.
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Will the rooster be able to cross it, and more so, we know boiler are not good at laying eggs.

rainmoredays:
I am particularly interested in that boiler hen.
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Will the rooster be able to cross it, and more so, we know boiler are not good at laying eggs.

Sure a noiler hen will surely cross a broiler hen, because the noiler roster weight won't be too much for the broiler hen to withstand, secondly broilers can lay eggs like other birds too, but most of us couldn't rear broiler for 4-5 months because if properly fed, it will be too big and not able to walk properly

Redomi:

Sure a noiler hen will surely cross a broiler hen, because the noiler roster weight won't be too much for the broiler hen to withstand, secondly broilers can lay eggs like other birds too, but most of us couldn't rear broiler for 4-5 months because if properly fed, it will be too big and not able to walk properly

This is the part I thought would be an obstacle.

rainmoredays:
This is the part I thought would be an obstacle.

then keep some female broiler and feed them just once a day for 4-5 months, they will surely lay and and their weight will be minimal. Don't forget to feed them grower feed for just once a day

I have a plot of land I use for vegetable farming. I plant efo tete and little okro. I used the poo from my chicken. It's very lucrative. I made average 2k everyday

Redomi:
then keep some female broiler and feed them just once a day for 4-5 months, they will surely lay and and their weight will be minimal. Don't forget to feed them grower feed for just once a day

Thanks for the heads up

Redomi:
I have a plot of land I use for vegetable farming. I plant efo tete and little okro. I used the poo from my chicken. It's very lucrative. I made average 2k everyday

Wow

Efo tete stem, that's my birds favourite.

Redomi:
Waooo, I love this. I have similar farm too, but I don't have local hen except for one that was hatched by my frizzle noiler, a local roster crossed her.
I have been breeding and making money from it though not big money but I enjoy watching them grow.
I sold all my turkey and left one, she has been laying for few weeks now, she will go broody in few days or week, I intend giving her frizzle noiler eggs to hatch.
I have 3 naked neck too, but I don't like the female, it's too small and not mesty like the male, I ate one of the male and sold one, I only have the female remaining, I don't plan to harched it eggs again, cos I have 2 that I hatched and I'm not happy with their growth.
But I still have 5 frizzle feather noiler, their mother and the children, I have sold their father, but the children are now older and crossing thehens among them and their mother, one has started laying including the mother. Their mother usually go broody and hatch her eggs herself

Pls how do you succeed in making yourr turkey go broody, I mean incubating her eggs after they have been layed

Mine layed eggs and ignored them at times they match on it and it gets broken

Whats the way out to make her hatch her egg