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3/30/12 at 4:51am

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what are those little black things in the water and food?

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3/30/12 at 4:55am

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what are those little black things in the water and food?

Marbles

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Silkies, Sebastopol Geese, Peking Ducks, 6 Katahdin Sheep, German Shepherd, and a Yellow Lab.

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3/30/12 at 6:24am

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Good morning everyone. I had a poult that hatched on yesterday. I brought it inside because it was hatched in the big chicken house and it wasn't safe there with the mother. I was soooooooooooo happy to see that it started eating and drinking on it's own immediately. One less thing for me to worry about.

It sure is cute Julie!!

I should have turkeys hatching Easter Sunday!

I also have about 30 that are due Sunday!! I'm gonna have babies coming out my ears!!

Have your girls been hatching a bunch of chicks??

Thanks Missi. That's going to be a lot of turkeys.

Luckily for my turkeys, I don't eat turkey

, so they are always safe at my place. The Bourbon Reds are popular in my area, so people contact me to get them as Yard Ornaments and a few 4H students contact me every year to buy them to show them at the 4H shows for school.

I am not hatching any chicks this year. That is a HEADACHE because of the amount that they hatch!!!! And I have too many chickens already. I am concentrating on selling eggs, hatching poults, geese and peachicks. My turkeys have done great this year with hatching poults. They are always hatching machines. Whatever eggs they set on, they hatch. I have goose eggs under chickens, ducks and turkeys right now. I had one turkey to hatch a baby gosling in the chicken house but I'm not sure what happened to it. I came home and found it dead. I think the chickens killed it. They pecked it's head.

And then something stole some of my turkey eggs. I'm thinking it was a snake.

And of course the 10 turkey eggs that I destroyed. I'm still crying about that but oh well. And I have my new girl setting on eggs and they should hatch in about 3 weeks.

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NPIP Certified-115 Chickens (50 chicks), 13 Geese (12 gosling), 19 BR Turkeys (5 poults), 7 Rabbits, 60 Muscovy Duck, 29 Guineas (15 keets), 9 Peafowl, 8 Sheep, 1 Goat and pea, turkey and guinea eggs cooking in the incubator.

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3/30/12 at 6:25am

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what are those little black things in the water and food?

Marbles

yep.

To prompt them to peck and the water and food and teach them to eat and drink.

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3/30/12 at 6:58am

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oh I thought the marbles were to keep them from drowning

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3/30/12 at 8:06am

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Thanks Missi. That's going to be a lot of turkeys.

Luckily for my turkeys, I don't eat turkey

, so they are always safe at my place. The Bourbon Reds are popular in my area, so people contact me to get them as Yard Ornaments and a few 4H students contact me every year to buy them to show them at the 4H shows for school.
I am not hatching any chicks this year. That is a HEADACHE because of the amount that they hatch!!!! And I have too many chickens already. I am concentrating on selling eggs, hatching poults, geese and peachicks. My turkeys have done great this year with hatching poults. They are always hatching machines. Whatever eggs they set on, they hatch. I have goose eggs under chickens, ducks and turkeys right now. I had one turkey to hatch a baby gosling in the chicken house but I'm not sure what happened to it. I came home and found it dead. I think the chickens killed it. They pecked it's head.

And then something stole some of my turkey eggs. I'm thinking it was a snake.

And of course the 10 turkey eggs that I destroyed. I'm still crying about that but oh well. And I have my new girl setting on eggs and they should hatch in about 3 weeks.

I don't blame you hun.... You have chicks coming out the wazoo last year!!! I'm hoping I sell all mine but even if I come home with some I'll be able tlo get rid lof them!!

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Great hubby, 2 kids, 3 furry babies, lots of chickens!!

Blue, Black & Splash Marans. Blue Slate, Narragansett, & Rio Grand Turkeys,

Guineas & Bob White Quail! NPIP Certified #851

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3/30/12 at 8:29am

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oh I thought the marbles were to keep them from drowning

Yes you are right as well.

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3/30/12 at 8:31am

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Thanks Missi. That's going to be a lot of turkeys.

Luckily for my turkeys, I don't eat turkey

, so they are always safe at my place. The Bourbon Reds are popular in my area, so people contact me to get them as Yard Ornaments and a few 4H students contact me every year to buy them to show them at the 4H shows for school.

I am not hatching any chicks this year. That is a HEADACHE because of the amount that they hatch!!!! And I have too many chickens already. I am concentrating on selling eggs, hatching poults, geese and peachicks. My turkeys have done great this year with hatching poults. They are always hatching machines. Whatever eggs they set on, they hatch. I have goose eggs under chickens, ducks and turkeys right now. I had one turkey to hatch a baby gosling in the chicken house but I'm not sure what happened to it. I came home and found it dead. I think the chickens killed it. They pecked it's head.

And then something stole some of my turkey eggs. I'm thinking it was a snake.

And of course the 10 turkey eggs that I destroyed. I'm still crying about that but oh well. And I have my new girl setting on eggs and they should hatch in about 3 weeks.

I don't blame you hun.... You have chicks coming out the wazoo last year!!! I'm hoping I sell all mine but even if I come home with some I'll be able tlo get rid lof them!!

Yea those chicks AND ducks almost made me lose it. I would have been joining Mike in the white coat hotel but on another wing - The Looney Bin. I was on my last rope then. I learned my lesson QUICK. And of course I have 24 Maran eggs in the incubator but the kind of luck I'm having with incubating, I doubt it they hatch.

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3/30/12 at 8:32am

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Set 12 silkie eggs this morning! Let's hope my brinsea behaves this time

What model of Brinsea do you have and how was it misbehaving? I have a Brinsea Octagon 20 Eco....just wondering if I need to watch for certain things.

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