A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

I liked the old pictures... I could tell you are younger than me and grew up rich... they were in color..

duluthralphie said:

I liked the old pictures... I could tell you are younger than me and grew up rich... they were in color..

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LOL my brother had the color camera. He is 12 yrs older. He was in the air Force and bought it at the BX. Parents had a black and white.

Loved it. Thanks for pointing it out R2

Warmer here. Going to be 70 today. Daffodils everywhere! Found the girls sitting on the porch in a patch of sun. Right at the edge, looking out into the yard. Backs to the door. Had to admire how pretty their feathers are. Such beautiful birds. Of course they realized I was standing there, hopped up, & started barking at me. They were ready for their evening stroll!

memphis said:

Warmer here. Going to be 70 today. Daffodils everywhere! Found the girls sitting on the porch in a patch of sun. Right at the edge, looking out into the yard. Backs to the door. Had to admire how pretty their feathers are. Such beautiful birds. Of course they realized I was standing there, hopped up, & started barking at me. They were ready for their evening stroll!

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Most of us have snow LOL

memphis said:

Warmer here. Going to be 70 today. Daffodils everywhere! Found the girls sitting on the porch in a patch of sun. Right at the edge, looking out into the yard. Backs to the door. Had to admire how pretty their feathers are. Such beautiful birds. Of course they realized I was standing there, hopped up, & started barking at me. They were ready for their evening stroll!

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It's a grand 26° right now here. I was freezing when I was out feeding everyone. Apparently, were supposed to see 40's later on but we'll see. Here's the view from my front window. Side roads all have a layer of ice on them from the freezing rain the other day and a dusting of snow on top :/

We've been fortunate to avoid snow and especially ice...so far. Holding my breath till March!

Geez....30-40 mph wind gusts. Was over at the airport. Pretty amusing watching them trying to land planes. Got home & the wind is sure ruffling feathers. Chickens are hunkered down. Turkeys came running. Wind practically blew their tails straight up!

memphis said:

Geez....30-40 mph wind gusts. Was over at the airport. Pretty amusing watching them trying to land planes. Got home & the wind is sure ruffling feathers. Chickens are hunkered down. Turkeys came running. Wind practically blew their tails straight up!

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Having been in the position of the person trying to land the plane in those winds.....What you call amusing Vacuums big time. Steady winds are never a problem, high speed gust can cause all kinds of havoc, none of which is good.....My bet is the pilots were perspiring and not watching you watch them......

Another horrible day here, started cold, turned to a mini-blizzard...Snow stopped snow came out, winds picked up even more and temps dropped...

The plus side for today is 4 (good turkey eggs)......only one chicken egg for eating.



good means not frozen......

We've had our share of "fun" weather lately. First freezing rain then about 7-8" of snow on top, stuck around for 2 days and then got 5" of rain in a 48 hour period leading to flash flooding in the area. Thankfully we're at a higher elevation so the flooding didn't directly affect us...

Random question(s) as I plan for this years' birds... we have people interested in meat turkeys and we've looked at selling some broad breasted so we can use an electric portable fence to pasture them. My bourbons would just hop that without a care... Might do some bourbons for meat next year but would need a more covered area.

So question is, what's the golden age of harvest for broad breasted? I hear anywhere from 3-5 months, some say 20 weeks, others saying even 22-24 weeks. I hear some at 24 weeks can be 40-60 pounds which is much larger than what the people interested want. Aiming for the 15-20 pounders. Also, the hatchery has BBW, BB Bronze, and BB Black. Is there a grow out time difference for those different colors or if going for table-birds should I just pick the BBW for clean dressed?

Thanks in advance!