A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[Bantambird]

Go to the fertrell site and see who makes feed near you. You might be surprised.

Looks like the closest places is 250 miles away in Hamilton. *Sad face*
Besides, I'm not sure if I am ready to mix my own yet. I have a hard enough time making dinner for three kids and the man child, let alone all the birds too. But the products look like exactly what I wish was in my poultry food!

 

[Flashpoint]

I am super jealous. I really want soy free, but that would run almost 30 dollars for 50#. DH is soy sensitive, so I'm sure it would help him if the birds didn't eat soy, but at least he isn't allergic, so he can handle it. I've mostly been feeding everyone turkey grower with a hopper of oyster shells on the side, since the whole flock runs together and there are thirteen poults in the group that are around 8 weeks. They get to forage anything else that's around the yard and horse pastures. The turkey grower is 14$ per50#.

Ouch on the $30 for 50 lbs!!

It's a shame you are so far away from where I am. I looked up the soy free feed where the soybeans have been replaced with sunflower meal. The prices seem reasonable to me.

Soy Free Layer Mash: $13.50/50lbs~$520/ton

Soy Free Chicken Grower: $14.25/50lbs~$550/ton

Soy Free Chick Starter: $14.75/50lbs~$570/ton

The downside is a minimum of a ton order (according to website but I bet I can get it in lesser quantities).

The turkey grower is 24% protein, but has soybeans in that @ $14.50.

 

[sfgwife]

For those of you that are newer to this thread, we have developed a consise way to describe our Turkey's temperaments:

LAPPERS: Enjoys being held. Wants attention.
TOLORANTS: Also wants attention but doesn't want to sit in your lap. But doesn't struggle if being held.
LURKERS: Always around but doesn't care to be touched.
BELLYBUTTONS: Jerks.

So what about the turds that follow us round hollarin for attention... and then run away when we do put a hand out? . The hens are tolerants most days. But bout twice a week they do this nonsense. And when we leave the pen they follow us all the way down just makin racket cause we didn't give them their lovin. Eesh!

 

[Ravynscroft]

So what about the turds that follow us round hollarin for attention... and then run away when we do put a hand out? . The hens are tolerants most days. But bout twice a week they do this nonsense. And when we leave the pen they follow us all the way down just makin racket cause we didn't give them their lovin. Eesh!

Lurking Tolerants, lol...

 

[sfgwife]

Lurking Tolerants, lol...

Lol! They just get of a mind to be bratty two days a week.... they folow us and squat waitin for attention or coo all sweetly lookin up with us at their lil doe eyes... then bubkus. Waddle their way makin circles round us and brush up against us, sit on our feet when we try move. Follow us round when doin chores in their pen hollarin cause we are ignorin em. Cause how dare us do chores to make them more comfy right. The best is when they start nippin our hands.... and run away from said hands.

 

[Finnie]

What do we call the ones who still try and perch on your shoulder and dig their talons in to try and steady themselves?

Those are definitely lappers. No one said having a lapper was completely safe.

And don't forget that they will peck your eye out!
So if you have shoulder perchers, be sure to wear sunglasses/protective eyewear. (Don't ask me how I know this...)

 

[duluthralphie]

And don't forget that they will peck your eye out!
So if you have shoulder perchers, be sure to wear sunglasses/protective eyewear. (Don't ask me how I know this...)

I am wondering if this has anything to do with your family nicknaming you "Cyclops"?

 

[memphis]

Uggg....early flight to Salt Lake City this morning. But at least I get to go home tomorrow. Was out of town this past weekend so I've only seen the girls Sunday before bed and a bit yesterday. Daisy is down to two tail feathers. New feathers coming in on top of her wings. Poor girl. Annie seems to be through the worst of her molt.

 

[Mama Runner]

Persimmons. Your bird would love them most likey. Never pull them from the tree. They are bitter as horrible! You can use a seive like the first pic or a renderer like the second. Mine is the second pic. But i have done it with a wooden spoon and a fine mesh strainer. We make bread and puddin with ours. They sell for bout $8 a two cup bag also round here. Today i got 26 cups and still have the gallon bag in the fridge i forgot to do. :/. My tree is still givin me loads and i have five more to pick up from that a friend showed me on his property. I think i may freeze a lot whole for my turkeys for winter... cause i really dont wanna pay ten bucks for a watermelon lol! Persimmons only fall in the fall. On the ground they are sweet. Some people say only collect after the first frost.. but mine taste just fine here. And i am not sure any will be left to fall after our first frost. The trees are usually a black lookin gnarly lookin bark.

An old wives tale... take a seed and cut it in half widthwise (through the thin middle so you have two thin halves) and if it is a spoon you will be shovelin snow, a knife just super cold amd a fork very wet rainy sleety winter. The last pic was after several seeds were cut here... all were spoons.

Thanks!!!!!!!!!! I'm going to send the kids out to go pick them up later.

 

[casportpony]

The missing wing feathers and bare back area looks like repeated rough breedings to me and I have seen the heads of hens get worked over pretty bad by a rough breeding tom. Since the OP did not present any background information there is no way to know what the problem is and any guesses are just that. You may well be correct but...

The OP posted that she does not have a Tom, so I think that rules out the chance of the wounds being from mating.