Good morning everyone. Just got in from checking on my goats. Got one expecting. 
While I was watching them all eat I got to looking at the area by their pens. It's covered and has support beams up. And it's just a big unused space. Got two walls (its the back of the barn) and all I would need to do it put up some more tin about half way and the rest chicken wire and throw down straw and some places to roost and some nesting boxes and man. I could buy some chickens....actual chickens! Since you know according to chicken math I don' actually own any chickens since mine don't lay eggs yet. But then we would have three coops!
This is bad. What have I gotten myself into?? 
An incureable addiction!!
Bubba Burger, AKA bubbaliscous, the knucke footed calf at almost 4 weeks.
Lil Red, the new king of the chicken yard.
LOOK at BUBBA's feet and Lil Red is gorgeous!
Well with a lot of help (120 from Guy) I set 5 full trays in the incubator this morning. Nothing like putting 900 eggs + or - very few in the incubator at once... I was almost tired from doing that. With 3 other trays in use that move to teh hatcher soon some later today I will start needing teh incubator space to set the eggs for teh next three weeks. That hatch is going to kick my tail but I need these out and going in early april to be ready for fall.
And we know that hatch is really going to improve your Rosecomb project!!!!
I can not even imagine setting that many eggs, I do good to keep up with the 2 small incubators that are goinf, esp. with staggered hatches.
Cjarvis and /or anyone else incubated turkey eggs ?
By chance with a styrofoam Lil Giant and with little knowledge of what I was doing Sucessfully hatched 4 of 6 wild turkey eggs. Raised them in a floor pen...medicated chick/broiler grower with extra protein. Offering bugs, worms, etc.
We are trying to hatch turkey eggs for the first time setting some at the end of this wk. I keep trying to set my peahens eggs & haven't had much luck with them yet.
The hail will be worse than the rain...
NanaKat,
I moved 5 LF eggs to the hatcher, the two OE did not make it they stopped somewhere around day 14
Thanks Carl...Wednesday okay for pick-up?
Gone all day yesterday, slept late today. Just got caught up. 
And we know what you were doing all day yesterday..sounds like you and Carl had a lot of fun!
Awhile ago I was feeding and didn't get the door closed as well as I thought o the guinea pen; one squeezed out and Shiloh got it. It got away several times, and I was about to go in and get Vashi to help when she came around the poultry complex with it in her mouth. It got away a couple of times more, but she kept trying to keep it away from me. She finally obeyed "Leave It!" and put it down, allowing me to get it. It is one of my few slates; my favorite color.
I don't think it is badly hurt although its back is skinned and bloody. I was going to put it in an isolation cage within the guinea house so the others wouldn't react to the blood and to keep it quiet, but when I got inside, it suddenly jumped from my hands and ran to its mates. Didn't even get a chance to treat it with anything. I was hampered greatly by two things; it is still hard for me to move fast with these two new and painful knees, and I had two newly-hatched Silkie chicks in the "portable brooder" (down my shirt front).
OH My ... The two chicks may have been more of a hamper than the knees... hope you are taking it easy on those new wheels.
LF: Col W., Cochins. Projects: Blue CW, Birchen W. B: OEGB, Rosecomb, d'Anvers.
"Speak kind words; hear kind echos." "When you get to your wit's end, you'll find God lives there."
"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."
Fabric Temptress - http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=3104712#p3104712
LF: Col W., Cochins. Projects: Blue CW, Birchen W. B: OEGB, Rosecomb, d'Anvers.
"Speak kind words; hear kind echos." "When you get to your wit's end, you'll find God lives there."
"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."
Fabric Temptress - http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=3104712#p3104712
