A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[duluthralphie]

Those Creamette eggs are pretty!

Chaos....how are the new turkeys doing?

Did you see I have ne creamette that lays an off colored egg, it is kind of green blue instead of pretty blue.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I would love to show a few birds but in PA all poultry is still banned from shows because of AI fears :/

Ralph I just use a sharpie to mark my eggs.

 

[duluthralphie]

I would love to show a few birds but in PA all poultry is still banned from shows because of AI fears

Ralph I just use a sharpie to mark my eggs.

That doesn't run when the moisture gets high for hatching? It doesn't hurt the chicks?



They have opened shows and swaps here this year.. again, until the first commercial grower has a bird die from over crowding..

 

[holm25]

Ralph are you going to add the layer of the off colored eggs to your layer flock so you dont get those bad egg color genes in your flock of CLB?

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralph are you going to add the layer of the off colored eggs to your layer flock so you dont get those bad egg color genes in your flock of CLB?

I am. I mark each chick as it is hatched and the egg it comes from. Yea, we watch the that close, my DW and I love watching them hatch. The chicks from the greenish eggs will go to the layer flock, even though green is an allowed egg for Creamettes.



We use Childs jewelry rings from Walmart for marking chicks, They come in a ton of colors.

 

[holm25]

So are u going to sell your creamettes?? Or are you going to keep breeding them??

 

[duluthralphie]

So are u going to sell your creamettes?? Or are you going to keep breeding them??

I have not decided yet. I sure could use there pen for the partridge Chanticlers.


I might just keep a trio or two of them in smaller pens.

 

[Chaos18]

Mine in the picture are not in the incubator yet so no markings. I keep them in a turner until they go into the incubator.

What do you use to mark yours, I have never found a good pen/pencil/marker for that.

I'm using a super-fine tip sharpie to mark air cells and just a regular sharpie to mark numbers.

Those Creamette eggs are pretty!

Chaos....how are the new turkeys doing?

They are still alive. Which is a positive thing.

I would love to show a few birds but in PA all poultry is still banned from shows because of AI fears

Ralph I just use a sharpie to mark my eggs.

Same here for egg marking.

 

[Chaos18]

That doesn't run when the moisture gets high for hatching? It doesn't hurt the chicks?



They have opened shows and swaps here this year.. again, until the first commercial grower has a bird die from over crowding..

SHARPIES on EGGS? Sure! post #10857 & the age old question Can you write on a hatchin egg with sharpie. answer is yes with proof

 

[duluthralphie]

Actually as I think about it Holm, I may move them out of the big coop soon. Putting them in a 4x4 coop with a 6x12 run on it. I could put one rooster and 3 hens in each one. I would have 4 sq ft of coop and 18 additional sq ft for each bird of run.


Then I could put other birds in the coop. Maybe Bird Jr and his gals or the BA's. I only have 3 Chanticler so they do not need that space this year. Same as the Sussex, I only have 3 of them.


I guess I am just not sure what to do.. I could put Sidekick and 3-4 hens in there, give them artificial light and begin hatching Slates..


Also I got a call last night from a guy wanting 2 Slate hens. I have 8 self blues so I think I will sell him two. I do not need 11 hens. I would have a thousand turkeys in the fall!