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Yup boys are stubborn! Keep telling my hubby he's more stubborn than me all the time!

Good for you! It's hard separating them sometimes, but it's for the best. We watch Dandy pretty closely. His is caused by not drinking enough. He's a stubborn boy. I always think its so funny how he tosses his head and throws a fit. Like that's going to make me change my mind.

That is usually my issue, but this year I have an over abundance of girls. Seems like everyone else got mostly boys and I musta kept all the girl eggs. It's going to be really hard picking and choosing the girls as most of them are cuddly as all get outs. I'm hoping to trade some with another...

I'm good Tiffany and Steve! But I know noting about that breed, so I'm of little use to you there. We cleaned the largest coop today. It was due big time. Alex decided no more once a month! It's easier to clean once a week. Good luck with that my young son! I'm starting to butcher the...

Oh I almost forgot! We have three poults hatching today and need to figure out who the lucky momma will be. Alex votes for Lily, but she's not tried and true, so I'll think about it. Really hate to give poults to a momma that Ive had no experience with. Those girls can have chicks.

. Enabler! I thought that was my job! Yup I thought it was soooooo funny the first time I saw it! Come to think its still funny because it's true! We have lots of POL and keep finding eggs all over the yard. Not hid mind you just dropped wherever. Cleaning the largest coop today...

I know! Alex keeps thinking she will stop doing it, but I'm pretty sick of her! Had a neighbor from our last house out today to learn how to butcher his roosters. He plans to come back everyday he can over the next weeks to get proficient at it. I don't mind the help at all! He will be...

Aren't turkeys funny! Fidget is so loving with her little itty bitties right now, but let's me pick them up. Prissy sits below them and calls to the babies. She wants them so bad! I would let her help, but she left her own when they were only a week. Silly girl! I have one broody Marans...

Yup every single vehicle parked on the side oft he road is eyed with suspicion now! Even the ones that just want to watchtower the turkeys fly! I know that's what they want because I question them. I'm like a police officer on my stretch of the highway! DD you almost made me pee my pants...

Chiqita Alex had to tell my little girlies, and they are MINE whether he believes me or not, that they are getting boyfriends. Not that they understood, but he is super excited! He even told Brown Betty that she and her remaining brood need to move. She didn't give a rip either, but it was...

Yeah we've had animals die before, but with Harvey it was different. Loosing Eva will be difficult, but you expect that with age comes health issues. Crud I know at 50 I'm no spring chicken myself! It was made all the more difficult the way she died. I don't think a day has gone by that my...

Me too! Lily, Harvey's daughter and shadow decided to stay in the coop rather than look for Harvey anymore and subsequently has gone broody! She pouted on the perch and when I kept bothering her she crawled in a nest box. After about a week she decided the eggs were hers and began hissing at...

I thought that rooster collar was amazing and I seriously think she should patent it and sell them. If I lived in town and weren't allowed roosters I would be making them in a heartbeat! Lovely thought that Eva will be around for years, but with her being a Broad Breasted Behemoth I don't...

Eva came out of the house this morning looking like her old self! Yeah!!!! I'm super relieved. She ran well like a sumo wrestler over to the brush where she has a nest and laid her egg. Then came looking for love of which I gave freely. I'm sure she's on the down side of her natural life...

I've only ever heard of the term fowl pox, so I can't help you there. Sounds like you have had your hands full! Does it affect all species? I went to check on fidget and found a little fuzzy poult walking on perch that runs between the cabinets the girls use as nest boxes. I grabbed it and...

I take sneaky broodies and lock them in a dark cage, coop, or even box. Anything to make it nice and quite for them to settle back onto their eggs. I also use a greenhouse for over wintering. We started Eva and her siblings in the house in jan. when we got them and moved them into the...

Psanki now is the perfect time to plant spinach, lettuce, green onions, peas, radishes, or basically any cool weather crop. Anything I would plant I the early spring I will plant now. We also will be getting our winter salad boxes going and moving some late start tomato plants into large...

Little Harvette has hatched and was given to a broody hat only has one poult. I was afraid I would become too possessive of it and not allow it to be a normal turkey. I did mark the itty bitty though, so I'll know it's one of Harvey's kids. We took all the rest of her eggs and put them in the...

Yes it was on purpose. He drove into the ditch over 6 feet to kill her from the opposite side of the road. It makes no sense to me why a person would do something so cruel and right in front of us too. He could have hit something, lost control and hit us! Harvey never saw it coming as it was...

Hi all! We had a horrible unbearable thing happen the other day. Alex and I were on the road side of the of the brush and trees that grew up in the old fence line. Harvey girl my one eyed turkey had a nest in the brush. So does Cora. Anyway Harvey came out to see what we were doing and a...