Posts by scrambledmess

It won't let me edit.  I wanted to add.  I have him wrapped in dry towels in the bathtub.  

Found one of my turkeys in the pool almost dead.  He had agonal breathing and his flesh and beak were very pale.  I pulled him from the water and dried him with a towel as best I could.  I then blew dry most of his...

sorry, I didn't see this.  I checked for several days and didn't see any interest.  I just sold them a few days ago.  Not sure how to close this thread.

Our tom is no in lock up because of aggression.  I could probably train him to respect me.  But I have 5 human kids who run my yard as well.  Too dangerous for him to run loose and no chance of everyone earning his...

I have four Royal Palm turkey poults for sale.  They are less then a week old, eating and drinking well.   They are for pick up only.  The picture is of our Tom.  I will trade for hay.

I just did a hatch.  32 eggs.  3 horrible temp spikes, one up to 108.  THEN I didn't write the date down and miscalculated the hatch time by 5 days....   I ended up with 4 hatching on their own...  but...

The pros and cons between the two were evenly balanced for me when we decided which we wanted.  I eventually went with goats due to the size of poop.  Who did I really want to clean up after?    

I think it was really dry.  Schools usually are.  I had the incubator set in my main bathroom.  With 7 people showering, that room was always quite humid.  But the school, not so much.  I like the idea of a rag...

I placed a little giant still incubator with automatic turner in my daughter's 3rd grade class.  I had no problem hatching from it last year.  But apparently, the school is much drier then my house.  The teacher couldn't...

Do you have any poults left?  I called and left a PM and haven't heard back.