French frogs

dan26552 said:

This is what Barney sounds like

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WalnutHill said:

AmyPaperlady said:

 
PaperKid wants to raise next year's Thanksgiving dinner (told her it was too late for this year, and there'd need to be building done this summer to do any at any time, anyway...) What kind of space requirements are we talking about, here? Especially if I decide to keep a tom and jenny each year. I'm guessing a 4 foot tall chainlink fence as a free(er) range boundary is fairly laughable... Too bad none of you folks have midget whites--at least, not that I can remember.

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Without a roof, you really don't stop a turkey.  If you clip wings that only makes them land harder from wherever they jumped to.

Midget whites grow very small and very slowly.  You'd have to hatch them out in February for Thanksgiving dinner and they'd still be small.  Any of the heritage turkeys will reach market weight in 26-28 weeks and won't grow too large.  While every individual turkey is different, I've found that they do vary in general.

If you want to raise your own breeders, I can send you some eggs from my smaller turkeys.  While they'd end up a bit small for Thanksgiving, the extras would be great for Christmas.  They'd be Narragansett base with gray, which can produce several nice colors.  The hen is on the small side and so are her babies.

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abbevilleoz said:

He sounds like a Banty rooster?

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dan26552 said:

He does, biggest roo in the bunch and he sounds like a banty 

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OrganicFarmWife said:

I would love to raise a couple turkeys, but you have to keep them seperate from your chickens right? Even seperate from where chickens have been raised in the past?

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RavynFallen said:

Mine run around with my chickens... and ducks...

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OrganicFarmWife said:

Really? When I first looked into it I was told, on BYC, that I needed to keep them seperate, something about worms or blackhead? So I figured that would be too much trouble, I only have one brooder and my chickens have been everywhere in my yard. But if I can keep them together, then it would be very doable, maybe I will look into it.

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