Question for all: Looking into either building or buying a multi-day waterer, any suggestions. We will be going to Aruba in early January for 5 days. My in-laws usually takes care of the birds while we are gone but with the weather being what it is that time of year and our massive up hill...
I always start with fresh beet juice, vinegar, pinch of salt and sugar and bring to a boil. I slice onions and put then in my jar with beets and eggs, pour in the warm brine.
I have a mustard egg recipe from the wife of an Amish guy my Pop works with that I haven't tried yet. I've tried hers...
My dad likes to send 10 dozen home with us every 2 weeks. We pickle half and hardboil the rest to toss in salad. Think I'm going to try mustard pickled soon.
I have a dozen that I need to candle in my incubator right now with a little over 2 weeks to go. I have 3 young turkeys from my first very early batch that are in the brooder along with 2 araucana chicks that came out of green eggs we bought at a farmers market around Easter for some photos (my...
If anyone is interested, my slate blue turkeys have kicked into overdrive and are laying like crazy. I've already hatched several and have a second batch in my incubator. $4.00 an egg, shipping will be USPS priority. Eggs will be double wrapped. Shipping cost would depend on how many eggs are...
I have 10 Muscovy eggs from the last several days. I have an incubator full of duck and turkey eggs right now. Anyone interested $1.00 each plus shipping ( $15.80 - large flat rate box, eggs double wrapped)?
I just checked and can't believe but I have no pictures of Suzi and Wilbert. We are...
12+ Blue Slate Turkey Hatching Eggs - BIN - $65.00 including shipping. These are yesterdays and todays eggs. The eggs will go in the mail tomorrow morning as soon as payment is received.
The slate blues pictured are our flock. We have found these birds to be incredibly friendly and curious...
One of the vendors that sells live mice and stuff to feed snakes always has birds that they raise too. Last show it was quails, this time call ducks and khakis. I just couldn't resist.
Question, our power went out yesterday morning around 4:30. We got the generator up and running around 9 after another update from PPL that it would be several more hours until power was restored. Anyway, our incubator got down around 74 degrees before we got it plugged in and back up to temp...
Our first run with our Hova-Bator was great. We set 32 of our chicken eggs, pulled 1 at day 14 during candling, disposed of another 1 the day before hatching started that had a tiny crack and started oozing smelliness. 3 eggs quit although the chicks seemed to be fully developed and we have 27...
I personally think that my turkeys have much more personality than my chickens. This is my fourth year with turkeys, having hatched our own last year for the first time. Last summer, our turkeys we hatched followed us everywhere. To me they have actually been more pet than a potential food...
My blue slate turkeys breed naturally and have been laying like crazy. Turkeys normally lay one egg a day to one every other day. We have so many, I'm going to start selling them and probably eating them too.
@cwojbaker I recently put 10 day old Muscovy duck eggs in the incubator. I candled...
Here's the start of our hatch!
My daughter checks the incubator every 5 minutes, as I was making lunch, I took a picture of her moving her chair over so she can stand and look in!
She refused to sit at the table and eat lunch. She had to be near the babies!