A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

Is this how people clean their wild birds? I always plucked
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Molpet said:

Is this how people clean their wild birds? I always plucked
https://www.onxmaps.com/hunt/blog/cleaning-wild-turkey-guide

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Really wasteful and stupid. Plucking is the way to go. Doesn't matter if you eat the skin or not but it does make a huge difference in how well the bird cooks with the skin on.

They are also missing the two best pieces of meat on any poultry carcass.

R2elk said:

Really wasteful and stupid. Plucking is the way to go. Doesn't matter if you eat the skin or not but it does make a huge difference in how well the bird cooks with the skin on.

They are also missing the two best pieces of meat on any poultry carcass.

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I have skinned owl kills in the middle of winter looking for punctures, but I get the thigh medallions if ok.

Who would miss those tenderloins? sad.

No pictures but first 3 hatches of the year. Monday was a chicken chick instead of the turkey eggs due next week. gave the turkey eggs to another due then.
Today a nest that had been rained on had 12 of 15 hatch. She was on a walk about leaving them alone, so I grab 11 and gave to the " Good Mama" ...she has a couple that hatched today and she is in a ex large dog crate in a coop. Came back later and cleaned up. One was clear, one quit early and one was halfway out dead.
The one that went from 12 to one seems to be ok with it. She called for a few minutes and the one came. She doesn't act like she knows I took them. She didn't see or hear me take them. I used my shirt like a harvest apron and they were warm and quiet. I sure didn't dilly dally since I had shorts on. But it was the perfect opportunity.

Molpet said:

No pictures but first 3 hatches of the year. Monday was a chicken chick instead of the turkey eggs due next week. gave the turkey eggs to another due then.
Today a nest that had been rained on had 12 of 15 hatch. She was on a walk about leaving them alone, so I grab 11 and gave to the " Good Mama" ...she has a couple that hatched today and she is in a ex large dog crate in a coop. Came back later and cleaned up. One was clear, one quit early and one was halfway out dead.
The one that went from 12 to one seems to be ok with it. She called for a few minutes and the one came. She doesn't act like she knows I took them. She didn't see or hear me take them. I used my shirt like a harvest apron and they were warm and quiet. I sure didn't dilly dally since I had shorts on. But it was the perfect opportunity.

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Had a hen hatch 8 of eleven eggs. On the way to the pen she stopped and picked a fight with the dog through a chain link fence.

I grabbed the little ones and put them in the brooder. When she was done fighting with the dog, she got really upset about her missing poults. After a couple of hours of hunting for them she went back to her nest. A couple of days later she came back with two more for a total of 10 out of 11.

I saw this and wanted to share, the bumblebees are out in force this spring.

Bantambird said:

I saw this and wanted to share, the bumblebees are out in force this spring.View attachment 3818099

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I have seen a couple this year.
Last year I followed several from the garden to between the house, bushes and steps in some leaf litter. That was the only pollinators in the garden.

Bantambird said:

I saw this and wanted to share, the bumblebees are out in force this spring.View attachment 3818099

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Nice currants. Here the bumblebees are after the gooseberries. The honeybees are working the plum, currant and serviceberries along with the dandelions.

Cherries and crab apples will follow soon.

Molpet said:

No pictures but first 3 hatches of the year. Monday was a chicken chick instead of the turkey eggs due next week. gave the turkey eggs to another due then.
Today a nest that had been rained on had 12 of 15 hatch. She was on a walk about leaving them alone, so I grab 11 and gave to the " Good Mama" ...she has a couple that hatched today and she is in a ex large dog crate in a coop. Came back later and cleaned up. One was clear, one quit early and one was halfway out dead.
The one that went from 12 to one seems to be ok with it. She called for a few minutes and the one came. She doesn't act like she knows I took them. She didn't see or hear me take them. I used my shirt like a harvest apron and they were warm and quiet. I sure didn't dilly dally since I had shorts on. But it was the perfect opportunity.

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Well I can't find this hen and her lone poult this morning. I assume something got them. Or she's hiding somewhere. There was a storm last night and I was out there checking fences a few minutes after sunrise. No sign of a struggle, she was in a knee high weedy area 100x50. I would think there would be smashed weeds if not feathers. It was almost 60f this morning and 65 now.

Never know what the best thing to do is. I don't want to deal with a brooder. I want them to eat and I get attached if I raise them.
A year or so ago, I locked one in with a few couple day old poults and 2 got trampled.
I guess I should have given them all to the Good Mama. She is sitting in the crate with babies running around, already drinking from the vertical nipple waterer. I don't know how many she hatched I gave her 11, she had a couple hatched shells but I never see more than 7 out at one time.