A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[PolarBerry]

Sooo a question: the turkeys have made the several feet of ground around the coop door entrance fairly muddy (along with poop). Since it’s outside the coop and gets rained on should I do something like hog fuel (large wood chips), gravel, or straw?

Edit: it’s clay soil so it’s slick as snot in the rain.

 

[Molpet]

Sooo a question: the turkeys have made the several feet of ground around the coop door entrance fairly muddy (along with poop). Since it’s outside the coop and gets rained on should I do something like hog fuel (large wood chips), gravel, or straw?

Edit: it’s clay soil so it’s slick as snot in the rain.

I added leaves,sand shavings... what ever I had on hand

 

[Molpet]

OH and I added barn lime,it soaks up and cut down smells and bacteria... spread thin and dry items on top...it gets churned together

 

[R2elk]

Enjoyed the heat wave today. Almost mid 30s. Above freezing so the rain we got yesterday didnt stick and was gone quick.

Today's low temp so far was 36°F at 12:34 AM. It is currently 41°F and got up to 50°F yesterday. There is really good snowball snow everywhere because of the 20.6" of snow I got in December. The paths are really slick from the packed snow. As is normal here the wind is blowing.

The toms never stopped displaying all winter but the hens are not yet in receiving mode. Around here that won't happen until next month followed by eggs in the middle of March.

 

[duluthralphie]

r2elk, Your weather is making me consider becoming a squatter--- If you see a shack on the back 40---stop and have coffee with me...

 

[Bantambird]

It's been pretty nice here, sharing the Chinook with r2elk. We are supposed to get snow tonight, but that's fine. Tis the season.

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

This is funny, but only if you're not the one being attacked.

http://www.cleveland.com/rocky-river/index.ssf/2018/01/aggressive_wild_turkeys_in_roc.html

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Sooo a question: the turkeys have made the several feet of ground around the coop door entrance fairly muddy (along with poop). Since it’s outside the coop and gets rained on should I do something like hog fuel (large wood chips), gravel, or straw?

Edit: it’s clay soil so it’s slick as snot in the rain.

gravel and lime

OH and I added barn lime,it soaks up and cut down smells and bacteria... spread thin and dry items on top...it gets churned together

x2!!

 

[PolarBerry]

I put down the remaining portion of straw I had on hand and will rake and replace once we get a haul of gravel.

Good idea on the lime, we used to have to do that in our rental that had a small hard packed yard and we had 3 dogs peeing on it. So we would lime it periodically to keep noses happy.

 

[PolarBerry]

Should add the straw was pretty dusty but they loved it. They were all doing dust baths in it and coated from head to toe and making their happy chirps. Too bad we’ll get like 2” of rain overnight so their fun might wash away.