A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[Finnie]

Ok, I googled it and found something but I'm not sure if the photos have copyrights, so I'll just put the link. Is this it?
https://www.google.com/search?q=his...q=allis+chalmers+roto+baler&tbm=isch&hl=en-us

 

[duluthralphie]

Ok, I give. Can you post a picture or something? Cuz now I want to know what an allis is, or whatever the heck you guys are talking about.

there ya go..

 

[Flashpoint]

LOL...Flashpoint, I understand completely. Here is my question for the day:

No secret I take my girls for a stroll around the front yard for a graze prior to bedtime. Why do men always want selfies holding a turkey? Two guys in a pickup stopped to talk about the girls. (new neighbors) I had to take their pics holding a turkey. While this was going on, a guy pushing his baby in a carriage stopped to talk & he wanted a pic too. Women don't seem to do this. They just want to pet the girls. What up with the selfies?

I wonder how many of those pics end up online with the caption "Look at what I bagged!". Honestly, I think it's just a man thing - the need for attention, bragging rights, ....just "macho stuff".

Just for the record, I was up and down most of the night checking on the turkeys. I made the mistake of putting the chickens and ducks away first. When I went to round the turkeys up ---- they had already went to roost in the Mimosa tree. Maybe they got tired of waiting on me?? Or a tad jealous that I spend so much time on the biddies? lol Anyway, they spent the night in the tree and I spent the night like a one-child momma whose kiddie went off to day camp for the first time.

 

[Bantambird]

Most of our equipment is from the 1960--1980 era. I think our round baler and the International that pulls it are 70s models, and the swather, small square baler, and the tractors that pulls them are 60s models, the tractors being a Ford 2000 and a John Deere 2020, I can drive those two. The square baler and the swather are new Holland. Not sure about the big round, but it's green so it could be a John Deere. There used to be a tractor graveyard out at the ranch, I think it's been cleaned up. There was a wooden horse drawn thing out there, might have been a combine, a farrower with a planter attached, also horse drawn, and any number of wagons and various odd contraptions. The wood finally dry rotted out.

 

[Bantambird]

The big thing dad has been able to preserve is the horse barn. It housed the teams of Belgian horses and had a hay loft above (huge colony of bats up there now, but we dislike mosquitos a lot more than bats, so they get to stay). He fixed the old tin up there, and sided the north and half the west with steel to help protect it, replaced boards and whatnot. It's the only original building that's saveable, besides the house itself.

 

[rjohns39]

Predator question: I lost a chick last night--but its weird. It looks like what ever the culprit was grabbed the bird through the chicken wire and somehow managed to pull it out. All that was left inside the wire was the gizzard. Blood on the bottom rail, and a trail containing a small bone, a partial wing and a foot. No tracks to speak of. The wire at the corner was bent out, but no holes or loose spots. Any idea what I'm dealing with?

 

[duluthralphie]

Predator question: I lost a chick last night--but its weird. It looks like what ever the culprit was grabbed the bird through the chicken wire and somehow managed to pull it out. All that was left inside the wire was the gizzard. Blood on the bottom rail, and a trail containing a small bone, a partial wing and a foot. No tracks to speak of. The wire at the corner was bent out, but no holes or loose spots. Any idea what I'm dealing with?

2-1 odds it was a coon...

I lost 14 birds last night...A Neighbor will be losing a dog soon.

 

[Bantambird]

2-1 odds it was a coon...

I lost 14 birds last night...A Neighbor will be losing a dog soon.

There are several relatives in the muskelid family, including raccoons, skunks, weasels, mink, ferrets and the like that will pull birds through the wire. Invest in hardware cloth. Now that it has gotten a meal, it will come back for more. If it is a coon, it will kill for sport too. We keep a live trap on hand when we know they are around.

 

[Bantambird]

First time the dog comes, it gets pellet gun to the butt. Second time? Well, it doesn't go home if we see it a second time.

 

[duluthralphie]

There are several relatives in the muskelid family, including raccoons, skunks, weasels, mink, ferrets and the like that will pull birds through the wire. Invest in hardware cloth. Now that it has gotten a meal, it will come back for more. If it is a coon, it will kill for sport too. We keep a live trap on hand when we know they are around.

I did not think a coon would kill for fun. Good to know, Maybe a neighbor won't lose a dog.

Either way I should know in the morning, as I will have 3 cameras out and the fence will not be able to be dug under.

The weasel I have had here will just pull the heads through and eat them.

Oh, I forgot I have a live trap set,,duh, I should go look in it.