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The last time I tried marshmallows in a live trap to get a raccoon we ended up catching a skunk. It was an unwelcome surprise. Good luck!

Maybe you're just talented. A lot of people would love to have smooth gravy instead of lumpy.

I don't know if this will help but I sold a 2 year old bourbon Red hen for $50 in the last month. I'm in northern California though. Also sold 2 year old slate hens for $50 each and a 2 year old standard Bronze Tom for $80. If you aren't seeing them listed, I would think either there's no...

Congratulations on the new job! That's aweful about your silkies, do you think it could be a group of raccoons? I've heard they move traps and can free each other if only partially trapped. Can you stake the trap down?

Me! Me! I think it was on the baluttie thread though. Thanks for the link!

Hey @duluthralphie did you see this one? I saw it on FB and thought of you so had to share

One was cracked and the other was dirty, so not ideal for hatching. Fiance was warned that I would be incubating sometime soon. There's 2 toms with 6 hens. Not ideal ratio, but I'm hoping we can make it work.

I got two turkey eggs today!! This group started laying before the mom group! Tomorrow morning I will check to see if they are fertile. Toms are Royal Palms, hens are 2 rusty slate?, 3 Bronze/red bronze, and a black. If they are fertile I'm thinking I need to incubate some this month. :) I lost...

I'm too low in elevation to get snow, or snow that lasts longer than a few minutes. We do get frost on the ground though. But drive 10-15 minutes up the freeway and they get snow there. 😁

It's 47° and cloudy here, it rained all yesterday. I'm tired of the rain, I'd love to be able to get some yardwork done.

Yeah, tame turkey hens would help call in the wild toms. That's kind of what happened at my parent's house, we had a wild tom hanging around trying to steal our hens, he didn't survive this hunting season.

That's hilarious! :lau

You could try quail, mine live in a shipping container and the darn things won't stop laying. I think they only get about 12 hours of light.

I'm so sorry

If you don't let her sit, how can she prove herself?

Rusty slate looks like the closest match but mine are a lot lighter and less red than the picture on the Porter site. Wonder if it's the lighting in the picture or maybe my birds are sunbleached?

But if the tom was a red bronze, shouldn't I have hatched some bourbon reds too? If the hen was barred slate, I would be able to tell by looking at the wings, right? I will try to upload the pic again when I get home and can use the computer. Phone is not cooperating.

This is a picture of the parents. They've been in the enclosed cage and haven't gotten out and no other turkey has gotten in. The wild tom turkey paces outside, if there was a way in he would have used it by now.

Maybe they are not Oregon grays? That's what I was told they were based on their fluff color. Posted here and the Porter FB group. They are gray/blue like the slate hens, but they have a reddish brownish band on their feathers. The ones who had the standard slate fluff didn't get this band and...

The blue slates, bourbon red hens are hatchery bought. The red bronze are resulting from crossing those hens with hatchery standard bronze, which also gave me the oregon grays. Clearly someone was carrying a recessive gene in the hatchery stock. The royal palms were hatchery stock bought this year.