A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[KF0002]

looks like she is going to be ok. It turned out to be my son's spring pick from last year, Waffles. She is now the runtiest goat out there, I really hope she doesn't get knocked up but I don't really have a way to keep them apart. If I were to try, they turn to liquid and rejoin like mercury.

Glad to hear she is going to pull through! Looks like you have similar luck as me. It was my son's favorite of all of our turkeys that got killed. I'm glad your son's pick is going to make it!

 

[I Like Turkeys]

two hens have started laying For me. 1 white holland and 1 black. I’m at 14 eggs right now, yippee. Both pens I want to keep poults back from this year. Fingers crossed I hatch out some nice birds once I begin incubating. My Black tom is about to be 4, so I need backup males before fertility starts dropping with him, and my white holland tom is a short and squat fellow, plus has blue eyes, so I desperately want to replace him.

 

[Huntmaster]

two hens have started laying For me. 1 white holland and 1 black. I’m at 14 eggs right now, yippee. Both pens I want to keep poults back from this year. Fingers crossed I hatch out some nice birds once I begin incubating. My Black tom is about to be 4, so I need backup males before fertility starts dropping with him, and my white holland tom is a short and squat fellow, plus has blue eyes, so I desperately want to replace him.View attachment 3736122

Good luck with your incubating and getting some new stock.

 

[Bantambird]

boop

 

[Bantambird]

She's such a pretty lady!

 

[KF0002]

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She's such a pretty lady!

She sure is! I would love to add recessive slates, but due to school I have to try to focus on just a few varieties. Your RS is a beautiful bird!

 

[KF0002]

My painted/grizzled cross poults are growing. They are coming up on 8 weeks old. I have thinned a few out to make managing them during school easier. I sadly had to part with two tri color mottled black jakes, a rusty barred black jenny, and a rusty barred black jake. And I gave one of the chocolate grizzled jennies back to the original breeder to back cross to her sire. I kept 5 out of the original 10: a solid white jake (blue eyes, split for painted/grizzled), a dark grey/black grizzled looking jake, a mottled chocolate jenny, a rusty barred chocolate jenny, and a grizzled chocolate jenny. All of the poults I kept have blue eyes. I am moving them to a larger brooder in the next day or so and I will try to get some updated pictures as soon as I can. I am in a pretty tough class right now so haven't had much free time.

Hope everyone is doing well!

 

[Huntmaster]

Well, was able to get about 90% of my turkeys separated back into breeding groups/pens. 3 days ago, I noticed the Fall Fire hen that started laying early last spring looked like she had been mated. Then noticed today her and her sister looked trodden on and feathers in pen. Looks like they are going to be early and first to lay again this spring. So, looks like I better get the nest houses cleaned and ready. The toms have been really strutting, fighting purrs, chasing just going crazy for a month or more with this warm weather. Never really had much of a winter here this year just a few weeks of extreme cold a few weeks back and been pretty much muddy most of winter here. Birds are looking good should be a good spring not going to incubate as many this year just enough for Thanksgiving to get that extra month of growth. The rest I'm going to let the girls do, those who want the poults are just going to have to wait a few more weeks.

 

[KF0002]

Well, was able to get about 90% of my turkeys separated back into breeding groups/pens. 3 days ago, I noticed the Fall Fire hen that started laying early last spring looked like she had been mated. Then noticed today her and her sister looked trodden on and feathers in pen. Looks like they are going to be early and first to lay again this spring. So, looks like I better get the nest houses cleaned and ready. The toms have been really strutting, fighting purrs, chasing just going crazy for a month or more with this warm weather. Never really had much of a winter here this year just a few weeks of extreme cold a few weeks back and been pretty much muddy most of winter here. Birds are looking good should be a good spring not going to incubate as many this year just enough for Thanksgiving to get that extra month of growth. The rest I'm going to let the girls do, those who want the poults are just going to have to wait a few more weeks.

A few of mine have started laying well also already. I have a few poults hatched out already, one Narragansett and 4 Fall Fires. I have a few more eggs in the incubator now. I will only be setting and hatching eggs from 4 hens mainly. It's hard not to keep them all but my husband keeps me in check.
 I also got two grizzled crossed poults from my friend. They are in with the 5 poults I recently hatched. Their mother was a rusty barred chocolate. One poult is chocolate and the other looks like it will be solid white. I look forward to working with the painted/grizzled genes.

 

[Molpet]

Mine are yelping and no eggs yet. A couple hens are starting to poke around in likely spots. Usually St Patrick's day is first eggs