A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[R2elk]

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[memphis]

How cute! What's the deal with Turd Bird? Was it hatched in your greenhouse??

 

[R2elk]

How cute! What's the deal with Turd Bird? Was it hatched in your greenhouse??

No, it was hatched in its mothers nest in the Crabapple tree. When the neighbor came over to get tomato plants the other day it was standing in a tray of water in the greenhouse after being on the deck railing that morning.

 

[Eric Exley]

i'm noticing my Narragansett hens are basically opposites, the one I hatched 2 poults from (they are the only poults i have currently) has bred to my Tom only once, and now she is not laying eggs (this is new to me), and the 2nd hen does not want to breed to my Tom, yet she is laying an egg almost daily...
I wish i knew why they are not breeding to him (he is a Docile, yet protective Tom), my bronze turkey hens i had long ago were breeding to him, and laying eggs, but the poults unfortunately died during a flash flood after the Bronze hens were killed (the Bronze hens were killed long ago by the neighbor's dogs, and cats).

I am being really careful about their safety this year since these days I now have to worry about a Bobcat (havent seen it for a couple of months), and a feral pack of dogs (they were originally a neighbor's Australian shepherd dogs that had a litter of puppies and it grew out of control from there)

 

[aliciaplus3]

i'm noticing my Narragansett hens are basically opposites, the one I hatched 2 poults from (they are the only poults i have currently) has bred to my Tom only once, and now she is not laying eggs (this is new to me), and the 2nd hen does not want to breed to my Tom, yet she is laying an egg almost daily...
I wish i knew why they are not breeding to him (he is a Docile, yet protective Tom), my bronze turkey hens i had long ago were breeding to him, and laying eggs, but the poults unfortunately died during a flash flood after the Bronze hens were killed (the Bronze hens were killed long ago by the neighbor's dogs, and cats).

I am being really careful about their safety this year since these days I now have to worry about a Bobcat (havent seen it for a couple of months), and a feral pack of dogs (they were originally a neighbor's Australian shepherd dogs that had a litter of puppies and it grew out of control from there)

I am currently trying to hatch poults out of a half broad breasted hen I have but I am finding that her eggs are not always fertilized. Silly bird all the other hens think the black Tom is a studd and willingly allow him to mate, guess she thinks otherwise. Of course I am more interested in continuing her Gene's in my flock, she is a Big girl easily as big as my Tom. We will see what this next batch does, with any luck we will get a couple poults. Full disclosure my incubator has been running since December and I had planned to shut it off by june but I have So many cool things I can hatch out of my different flocks and I keep finding an excuse to put just one more batch in...

 

[Eric Exley]

Same with me, i love hatching baby chicks, ducklings, and turkeys... but currently my supply of eggs is limited because of so many problems this year, i only have 4 hens in my flock of chickens (one has hatched 9 but now only has 3 left).
1 adult female White Pekin duck (her mate is a large male muscovy Duck), and then my trio of turkeys (my Golden Narragansett Tom named Big Tom, and his 2 Narragansett Hens).
And then there are the Guineas I inherited from my Aunt (she passed away a few years ago, and her guineas wandered the 1/2 mile between our houses up to my house, and have not left since) all 3 of them are males, 2 of them are over 20 years old, and the 3rd is barely 5 years old... and its very hard to find them females that won't get killed just before its time to release them with the male guineas...

 

[memphis]

Ha! Finally got one!!

 

[memphis]

 

[Molpet]

Ha! Finally got one!!
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they do exist

 

[OneMountainAcres]

She's very pretty @memphis! Is she calming down any?