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I am so sorry. My condolences to his family and friends.

Thankfully, these bees seem pretty mellow-for bees. I only saw one tonight, so I think he got them all this time. Now to put the coop together again. One wall was torn down (he did tack it back up), one was cut open with a chain saw and the roosts were torn down. It's so miserably hot and...

Well, spring hatching has nearly come to a close. I've lost track of numbers, but somewhere close to 40 poults and the same in chicks, plus or minus. There's a few eggs in the bator, but those are, hopefully, destined for broody hens. I've had problems convincing the 3 momma turkeys to share...

I have 3 turkey hens that are raising chicks/poults. They are in an outside pen with dog houses. 2 hens get along great but they chase the 3rd out to the edge of the pen, the babies go to any of them, even the outcast hen. She always has a few that bed down with her at night. I tried to take...

I've got turkey eggs coming out my ears. 3 broody turkeys, incubators full. I need those other turkeys to go broody asap!

This.

What does this say for production? My turkey dragged another pecan into the nest box and has been sitting on it. Today, it pipped. Seems hatch time for pecans is only a week or so.

This is what I heard, exactly. Thank you.

I might be misremembering, but I think someone told me that the bees are interbreeding, so destroying all the Africanized bees isn't practical.

One of my Speckled Sussex went broody-yeah! I think she's about done being broody-boo! We'll see. I'm not there to keep an eye on her (at a friend's) and my friend just left for a dog show (national so she's gone 2 weeks). He husband can't be expected to report on my luke warm broody...

Keep an eye on this one, he's sneaky

Did you frame your sister?

Maybe give her blue golf balls and she won't notice the blue egg.

I have broody turkeys that I can't let sit yet. I keep taking the eggs, so one dragged a pecan into the nest. She sat on it for several days before I tossed it out.

This is what I'm doing. But, when I started thinking about getting chickens, I decided I needed to stick with one breed. I'm getting closer to moving my birds to a friend's place. They'll have their own pasture to range in. We've set up 2 fairly large rooster pens. I have 3 roosters at this...

It's not that poults aren't "smart", they learn by imprinting. So they see the behavior and imitate it. Chicks have instinct, so know what to do when they hatch. If poults aren't broody raised, it's best to raise them with a few chicks so they can imitate what the chicks do.

I'm definitely planning to try this when we get some birds moved to the new coop. Right now, the turkeys would lose their minds if I loaded a nest box with eggs. Have to wait until I can keep the chickens and turkeys away from each other.

That part isn't the problem. How about "The Wiggles"? (Hope I got that right. I don't have kids.)

Well, that's disappointing. What music would you recommend I play in the coop to set the mood for broodiness? Maybe a therapist?

I don't mean learned by watching the flock mates, I mean learn by being raised by a broody. Maybe imprinted would be a better word. If I have to wait for one of my SS to go successfully broody, I might die of old age. I had a couple try last year, but gave up after a week-10 days. I want to...