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post #21 of 939
8/8/12 at 6:11am
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Originally Posted by ChicksinPR View Post

i wanted to hatch a couple turkey eggs... but my family gets too attacheched and i don't thin they will eat it. i have no room to keep turkeys as pets. 


I asked my husband the same! He said NO, we don't have room for turkeys. Maybe next year.

Nicole & William

Abby [Naughty Dachshund] & Sticks [Sweet Italian Greyhound]

Lots of Orpingtons roaming free in my backyard.

♥ Poopsie, Popcorn, Mr.Splash, Bella, Loki, Thor, Starbuck, Chief & Sweetie Pie  ♥

I'm a Certifiable Chicken Addict!

Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. -George Eliot

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Nicole & William

Abby [Naughty Dachshund] & Sticks [Sweet Italian Greyhound]

Lots of Orpingtons roaming free in my backyard.

♥ Poopsie, Popcorn, Mr.Splash, Bella, Loki, Thor, Starbuck, Chief & Sweetie Pie  ♥

I'm a Certifiable Chicken Addict!

Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. -George Eliot

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post #22 of 939
8/8/12 at 6:12am
I have some show quality light brahmas coming for someone but might keep one or 2 should i get enoughEggs due here Thusday or Friday which means Sat or more likely Monday Haha
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post #23 of 939
8/8/12 at 6:42am
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Originally Posted by A.T. Hagan View Post

Set forty turkey eggs Monday night. Sold all of the spring hatch so I'm hatching more for the fall.
i wanted to hatch a couple turkey eggs... but my family gets too attacheched and i don't thin they will eat it. i have no room to keep turkeys as pets. 
This is a common problem with turkeys. I think about half of the folks who I sell birds to who tell me "we're going to eat them!" still have them a year later. Once they discover turkeys have personality they can't bring themselves to do the deed.

A bronze tom strutting in the sunshine does make for some mighty fine yard art though.
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Is your profile picture of 'Rex' the 45lb rooster?
I drink that wine all the time. LMAO.
I bought a bottle of that wine just to get the label!

But no, my boy isn't Rex. He's a lot bigger than that!
Chance favors the prepared mind.
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post #24 of 939
8/8/12 at 6:46am
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This is a common problem with turkeys. I think about half of the folks who I sell birds to who tell me "we're going to eat them!" still have them a year later. Once they discover turkeys have personality they can't bring themselves to do the deed.
A bronze tom strutting in the sunshine does make for some mighty fine yard art though.
I bought a bottle of that wine just to get the label!
But no, my boy isn't Rex. He's a lot bigger than that!


i might get some eggs then... got any recommendations on turkey eggs sellers... ? Over here they eat the Guinea meat... i was thinking of raising 1 or 2 for the holidays... love to try something I never had before...

So I am hatching MORE EE this month..lol

 

currently have too many EE...

 

 

 

 

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So I am hatching MORE EE this month..lol

 

currently have too many EE...

 

 

 

 

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post #25 of 939
8/8/12 at 6:54am

I'll be in on this one with Heritage RIR eggs this time. Setting the eggs either Saturday or Sunday depending on what day they arrive.

 Eggs in the Bator: Chocolate, Crele, and Lav. Orps, CCL, Khaki Campbell, Silver Appleyard, Bourbon Reds,Midget Whites, Asst. Guineas & Jumbo quail.

 

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 Eggs in the Bator: Chocolate, Crele, and Lav. Orps, CCL, Khaki Campbell, Silver Appleyard, Bourbon Reds,Midget Whites, Asst. Guineas & Jumbo quail.

 

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post #26 of 939
8/8/12 at 7:09am
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I'll be in on this one with Heritage RIR eggs this time. Setting the eggs either Saturday or Sunday depending on what day they arrive.


Yay!

 

Have you had any experience with the RIR? I almost got some but my friend told me that her parents had them and they were very aggressive? Any truth in that, or did they just have mean chickens?

Nicole & William

Abby [Naughty Dachshund] & Sticks [Sweet Italian Greyhound]

Lots of Orpingtons roaming free in my backyard.

♥ Poopsie, Popcorn, Mr.Splash, Bella, Loki, Thor, Starbuck, Chief & Sweetie Pie  ♥

I'm a Certifiable Chicken Addict!

Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. -George Eliot

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Nicole & William

Abby [Naughty Dachshund] & Sticks [Sweet Italian Greyhound]

Lots of Orpingtons roaming free in my backyard.

♥ Poopsie, Popcorn, Mr.Splash, Bella, Loki, Thor, Starbuck, Chief & Sweetie Pie  ♥

I'm a Certifiable Chicken Addict!

Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. -George Eliot

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post #27 of 939
8/8/12 at 7:13am

Setting new batch of coturnix quail eggs. After the devastating loss that led to only one survivor, I'm trying again

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post #28 of 939
8/8/12 at 7:16am
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Setting new batch of coturnix quail eggs. After the devastating loss that led to only one survivor, I'm trying again

Good Luck! I hope your hatch is much better this time...

 

I've never seen a quail in real life? Are they for eating? or eggs?

Nicole & William

Abby [Naughty Dachshund] & Sticks [Sweet Italian Greyhound]

Lots of Orpingtons roaming free in my backyard.

♥ Poopsie, Popcorn, Mr.Splash, Bella, Loki, Thor, Starbuck, Chief & Sweetie Pie  ♥

I'm a Certifiable Chicken Addict!

Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. -George Eliot

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Nicole & William

Abby [Naughty Dachshund] & Sticks [Sweet Italian Greyhound]

Lots of Orpingtons roaming free in my backyard.

♥ Poopsie, Popcorn, Mr.Splash, Bella, Loki, Thor, Starbuck, Chief & Sweetie Pie  ♥

I'm a Certifiable Chicken Addict!

Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. -George Eliot

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post #29 of 939
8/8/12 at 7:24am
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Good Luck! I hope your hatch is much better this time...

 

I've never seen a quail in real life? Are they for eating? or eggs?


Mostly for eggs! but they will be my beloved pets :) And to keep the sole survivor company, she(I think) is very lonely now

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post #30 of 939
8/8/12 at 7:35am
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Eeeek.

 

I just started the 12 hour process that is, recalibrating my digital thermometer/hygrometer.

 

I absolutely love this thing, but I was so impatient that I didn't want to wait 12 hours and calibrate it when I got it, so my temps may have been off.

 

I can't love this thing enough, if you want a good little hygrometer/thermometer, the Xikar digital hydrometer is the way to go :) I paid $25 for it at the local cigar shop but it's already paid itself off in accurate measurements [more accurate than the other crap thermometers I had in there before ] Lol.

 

I'm also cleaning the incubator, I had one Mille fleur d'Uccle egg that looked like it was going to hatch, but he's made no progress at all and I can't see anything candling him so I'm tossing the egg and hoping I wasn't wrong.

Nicole & William

Abby [Naughty Dachshund] & Sticks [Sweet Italian Greyhound]

Lots of Orpingtons roaming free in my backyard.

♥ Poopsie, Popcorn, Mr.Splash, Bella, Loki, Thor, Starbuck, Chief & Sweetie Pie  ♥

I'm a Certifiable Chicken Addict!

Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. -George Eliot

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Nicole & William

Abby [Naughty Dachshund] & Sticks [Sweet Italian Greyhound]

Lots of Orpingtons roaming free in my backyard.

♥ Poopsie, Popcorn, Mr.Splash, Bella, Loki, Thor, Starbuck, Chief & Sweetie Pie  ♥

I'm a Certifiable Chicken Addict!

Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. -George Eliot

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