A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

Auroradream26 said:

Your dog was stunning! She's in such amazing shape in those pictures

I have to ask, was she raw fed too? Just curious. I thought about getting my bulldog mix into agility when she was young. She LOVED to run. Heck, she still loves to run, when her body will let her. Unfortunately, she's the result of Backyard breeding and has so many issues. They weren't obvious then but now, at only 4 years old, there are days where she can't walk because her joints hurt so bad. She can't hear well because of the constant ear infections she gets from all her allergies, and she can't see well anymore since she had to have the glands removed from her eyes (cherry eye) and now gets dry eye issues every winter. But when she's feeling good (like today) there's absolutely no stopping her! She will run full speed around the yard, crashing through anything in her way. If you're not watching her, she may plow right through your legs, and you doing to the ground HARD and keep on going like nothing even happened lol. She's mixed with rottie btw. Apparently a few generations ago.

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I took Mia to re-home at a year old and ended up keeping her. She was NOT a pet, she was a working dog. She'd chase a ball for hours. She was never a lap dog. I had actually met her as a puppy because I was working at a vet clinic. Her owner passed away and his daughter kept her tied in the yard for 6 months before calling me. She came from a BYB, too. If you look up faults in the Boston standard, she had most of them, lol! She was raw fed as soon as she came to me. She had bilateral knee surgery when she was 5 to fix her luxating patellas. She was an amazing dog. My only regret is not having her now, when I'm a better trainer and training has advanced so much.

Your dogs are lovely. Your bully x looks like a blast.

tracyjg said:

Puppy illness and allergies and walking issues can't see well I can relate.we like to get ours back to training for agility courses again.we our working on issues. Will not be before July we can put turkey and dogs issues together

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Agility is addictive. It's hard get out once you've been bit by the bug.

feedman77 said:

I have a hen now that is determined she wants to get broody. I have gotten her off the nest twice to get the eggs.

She is a little more tempremantal each time. Flaring feathers and starting to hiss tonight.

The only bad thing she's right a year old and there was only 2 eggs in the nest. Would better if she waited for a few more.

Since she is so determined might separate her and let her have her own little clutch.

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Might be a good thing to let her have a small clutch for her first try, then you can see what kind of mama she is! So far I've been able to deter Coco and Big Bird when they start trying to sit....hopefully this trend holds for now, since I have no fertile eggs. I haven't been hissed at yet, didn't know that turkey hens could make noises like that

Daisy was sitting on my lap & someone she didn't know leaned over her & she hissed. She was sleeping. I think it startled her. So far mine aren't acting broody. Keeping my fingers crossed. But I'm probably doomed.

Feedman, how is Superglue? So I'm guessing you aren't up to a hen wrestling match?

Superglue had to spend an extra day in the incubator.

Moved him and uh-oh to the brooder this morning. They are both doing well.

Uh-oh is outta one of my blue palm tom and I assume a royal hen. He has the mask of a slate. But his down is almost silver. Might have to keep him to see what he turns into.

Superglue is tiny compared to her hatch mates. Maybe half the size. She has pure white down. So I'm thinking maybe a blue palm when she's older.

As far as turkey wrestling. Nope.
Not up for that.

I think my days of wrestling anything are behind me.

I would let her have her clutch of her own.

My hen Poppyseed hissed at me one night when I had to get her off her nest out in the brush and make her come in to the coop. It was the first time she didn't come in by herself. I had been leaving her two eggs in that nest, and taking one away as each new one was laid. But the night before, some animal had found the nest and eaten the two eggs that were in it.

I thought about you all having your wrestling matches with broody hens, but man o man- one hiss, and there's no WAY I'm getting any parts of my body even close to striking distance! So I fished around in the dark for a stick, and could only find a thinnish one. Poking and prodding only got the stick bitten, no hen moved. Fished around in the dark and found a much stouter stick, and between the two, I was able to push her off the nest, using the long side of the fat stick, not the end of it. Once she was away from the lone egg, she got to her feet and grudgingly walked back to the yard and waited for me to open the gate.

The next time she wanted to lay an egg, she looked at that same spot, and decided against it. Laid her egg a few yards to the east of there, but has not laid another egg at all since. She was doing about every other day, but now it's been 6 days with no egg. She doesn't leave the flock any more either.

So does that mean I broke her from being broody and at the same time broke her from laying? Can I expect a certain amount of time before she starts laying again? She only laid 7 eggs in total.

Finnie is she a new hen? (yearling)?

They sometimes take breaks in laying. Is she getting enough calcium? (oyster shells)

As far as turkey wrestling goes, I have a anti wrestling device I use to gather eggs. I have a broom handle. I taped a soup ladle to the end of it, I just push it under the turkey and pull out the egg. They will raise a little when they hiss, so their hissing helps me steal the egg. This is all done from 5 feet away so it is safe. I used and old broom handle but had to buy a 99 cent ladle as my wife refused to let me use the one from the kitchen.

BTW I messed up yesterday, I did not collect eggs from the one group of turkeys, so unless they sat on them they are all frozen and cracked. It is 9 degrees.

Superglue died this afternoon.

She was fine at 10 this morning.

I went to move so chicks out of the bigger brooder and checked my small chick brooder and she had passed.

duluthralphie said:

Finnie is she a new hen? (yearling)?

They sometimes take breaks in laying. Is she getting enough calcium? (oyster shells)

As far as turkey wrestling goes, I have a anti wrestling device I use to gather eggs. I have a broom handle. I taped a soup ladle to the end of it, I just push it under the turkey and pull out the egg. They will raise a little when they hiss, so their hissing helps me steal the egg. This is all done from 5 feet away so it is safe. I used and old broom handle but had to buy a 99 cent ladle as my wife refused to let me use the one from the kitchen.

BTW I messed up yesterday, I did not collect eggs from the one group of turkeys, so unless they sat on them they are all frozen and cracked. It is 9 degrees.

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Interesting invention. You might market that. But I had a hen that I'm pretty certain would have snapped the broom handle in two. She only got tighter to the eggs if I walked near by. She was wicked mean. She hatched one poult and nearly killed him by being overly protective. She'd go after anything that came near him, but she'd chase them for 5 minutes. Meanwhile, poor baby was left on his own. I sold her.