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My Columbian hens are starting to lay. 1 pullet too. Too early to have chicks in Iowa with my set up. I hate to waste eggs from my best birds so will probably set some soon. I doubt many are fertile with the feather dusters I raise. Strange how my best bird last year was the 2nd egg I hatched and none after that matched her. Sent in my entry for the Northeast Poultry Congress show in Springfield Mass next month. It is a long way but my son only lives 90 miles from the show. Won't go if weather makes it unsafe to go.
Craig
 
Saw a great turkey prank on tv the other evening.....
Girlfriend/fiancee had been invited to the future inlaws for a Thanksgiving dinner and was asked to cook the turkey
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(think it was her first time).
Girlfriend was quite a prankster so the tables were turned.
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Sometime during the cooking of the turkey, one of the Aunts slipped a cornish in the cavity of the turkey!
So, girlfriend, proud moment,
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beautiful turkey, starts digging around removing stuffing and something isn't right???
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She finds this little cornish and is horrified!!! She backs up and starts to tremble. someone pulled out the cornish, Aunt says "Oh no! You bought a pregnant turkey!" "That turkey had a baby in it"!
Girlfriend feels like she murdered a baby turkey!
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Tears begin to flow, makeup all down the face. Poor woman looked like a clown! She was very distraught!
Then boyfriend (by now future exhusband), tells her it was a prank and the Aunt says she put it in there. Takes a moment to sink in then girlfriend says, "okay, you got me".
Of corse nobody remembers that turkeys lay eggs, they are just glad it was a prank!
I can picture Steph doing this!
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I did a complete candle last night and ended up with 20 out of 58. Considering which eggs they were and the dates on the ones I kept, I'd say it maybe had more to do with temperature. It was pretty cold for a lot of that collection time especially toward hatch day. The older ones, collected when it was warmer, seem to be doing OK. Every egg I open has a bulls eye, so I really do think the roo is doing his job. Now at least
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I also thought maybe 11 hens was too many for him so I took a couple more of the black ones out.
 
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Exactly - I get charged for "testing" my birds at the Stuart swap everytime and they even sign off on the testing document. They have NEVER had a tester when I have been there ( just 3 or 4 times)

Oscelola is the other auction I go to - they have a tester probably every other time I'm there. I go to this auction more. Unfortunately they sell sick birds occassionally.
 

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