Quote: I understand. I lived in Minn. for a while with my parents I recall the snow and the cold. :/
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Quote: I understand. I lived in Minn. for a while with my parents I recall the snow and the cold. :/
Good morning...
It is the day I take my hands into my life!
I have to move my "brooding turkey hen" today. She has been setting on the nest for nearly 3 months. She is the worlds worst incubator. She originally took over eggs another hen vacated. I was in Florida at the time and my DW cannot tell my hens apart. (weird huh?) I removed those eggs after none of them hatched and replaced them. She sat on the new eggs for 30 some days and none hatched.. by this time she was getting skinny and I was worried about her health, but she refused to stop incubating. So I gave her a dozen chicken eggs. They should have hatched Sunday.
I checked on her Sunday, she was okay but PO'd I was looking at her. Yesterday, I lifted her off her nest to get a good look at her. BIG MISTAKE!
She was not happy with this move, after a few minutes of stomping around and letting me know she was upset. she attacked. She puffed up and jumped at me like a wolverine in heat! Hitting me in the chest, twice. Did you know their claws and wings hurt like H-e double hockey sticks! Her eggs were broken and there were maggots crawling through some of them. they had partially developed chicks in them. I noticed she is a tad "slow". She moves all the eggs into a circle around her so she can sit on a nice comfy nest and not those hard lumpy eggs..
Today I am moving her to a barren pen on hard cement until she gives up the incubating idea. If you do not hear from me again, you know she beat me to death.
I just want to double check before we really start throwing together our coop and run this weekend. Will a 12 x 20 run be plenty big enough for 8 heritage turkeys? The coop itself is an 8 x 10. Our birds will get to free range but for when we have to keep them confined for whatever reason.