A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[R2elk]

I am hoping for the same as your toads...
I am sure other have done this with BB and I wonder how they turned out.

I crossed a BBW hen with a Bourbon Red tom. The result was a Red Bronze that was nearly as big as a BBW with the growth rate about the same as a BBW. I sold it the fall of its hatch year so do not know how well it did in following years.

 

[Molpet]

I crossed a BBW hen with a Bourbon Red tom. The result was a Red Bronze that was nearly as big as a BBW with the growth rate about the same as a BBW. I sold it the fall of its hatch year so do not know how well it did in following years.

Thanks for the info.. I was hoping that would be the case..

 

[memphis]

Sigh...I'm just thinking of Feisty wandering the beaches & picking lemons off of trees...sigh
Lucky girl!!

Heading home tomorrow. Miss my girls. Daisy hasnt had a lap nap in 6 days. Starting to feel guilty.

 

[Molpet]

I am betting you will get a slower going longer lived bird that is bigger than a Nari. but as with the Toads, there will be set backs, at one point a couple years back I almost gave up on the toad project, I thought the naysayers were right. But I had a single pair that lived to breed and from them I got the 10 I have today. Not counting the eggs in the incubator that I have my fingers crossed will hatch.

I almost went to AI with them. So keep that in mind. I did do some trimming of feathers around the vents to allow better fertilization in the first generations.

This year I am going to give some of my first hatches to a 4h kid and have her show them in the "meat" division, I want to see the CX decrowned for toads. I do know my January Toads will be larger than any hatchery
CX and healthier.

CX's have won the meat divisions for too long!

yeah I only have 1 hen so that may be an issue if she doesn't live/lay LOL

Prayers the toads kick butt in 4h LOL

I only got 1 pullet from my mix roo/cx eggs , hopefully she will have many children.. may call her eve LOL

 

[duluthralphie]

yeah I only have 1 hen so that may be an issue if she doesn't live/lay LOL

Prayers the toads kick butt in 4h LOL

I only got 1 pullet from my mix roo/cx eggs , hopefully she will have many children.. may call her eve LOL

Best of luck with Eve, I know how nerve-wracking it is when the future of your breeding program depends on 1 bird with no backups!


Last spring it was all on Bert and Bertha, they were the most pampered, well treated birds with plush posh living quarters. This year is so much more relaxing. Relaxing enough I am going to eat a toad!

 

[duluthralphie]

Two Stupid Turkeys spend the night outside. I should take their heads now so they never do it again,,,

 

[Molpet]

Best of luck with Eve, I know how nerve-wracking it is when the future of your breeding program depends on 1 bird with no backups!


Last spring it was all on Bert and Bertha, they were the most pampered, well treated birds with plush posh living quarters. This year is so much more relaxing. Relaxing enough I am going to eat a toad!

I am not too nervous, I didn't think the cx would lay until spring. I figure I am ahead of projections anyway, with 1 pullet and 3 cockerels frogs and a cx hen LOL
of course winter just began and Monday I lost the cx hen cavemanrich gave me. She had a really nice personality, good looking with a small comb.. Purple all over when I found her.
Christmas day I think I had a hawk attack.. I went in the house about 1:15 and all was well.. I had given the birds some pumpkins to eat... about 2 pm I went out and heard a hen very upset. I went in the north end of the big hoop coop and the two mama hens ran out and the halloween chicks were huddled in a corner.
A big pile of turkey feathers was at the divider in the middle of the coop... the roosts in that half were knocked down.. the turkeys were outside in one of the old dog pens facing west on high alert... the roo was with them.(which is unusual)
The Labor Day bunch came running up from the south fence by the pasture, (which is not where they usually hang out) and ran into a different old dog pen where they usually hang out.. they were terrified.
No other chickens were in sight.. they were in the big hoop coop hiding in the old dog house and junk coop that are in there... all ok but terrified.
There was lots of snow and I was looking for coyote tracks thinking one jumped the fence... NO NEW TRACKS of any predator, inside or out .... I checked the turkeys and one has some missing tail feathers and another has a bald spot on his back bigger than my hand, no wounds. ...
All the birds keep looking up so it must have been a hawk.. thinking the hawk chased a chicken into the coop and either the turkeys were in there or went in after it... the divider lets a chicken through but not a turkey in the bottom corners... so the hawk could't get more than half way.
The adjacent small hoop coop had the 2 cx hens locked inside and they were all upset too... Might have contributed to the one dieing

 

[Molpet]

Two Stupid Turkeys spend the night outside. I should take their heads now so they never do it again,,,

You should... but so they don't teach the others.

you had one and now you have two night owls...soon it will be three and then all

 

[duluthralphie]

You should... but so they don't teach the others.

you had one and now you have two night owls...soon it will be three and then all

I am going to cut down on my breeds and Varieties (and pure numbers) so they might just lose them unless I can sell them.

I want to get down to JJ, a Slate Tom (Sidekick) 2 slate hens, a palm Tom, 2 hens, a Bronze and 2 hens and maybe a black... the rest are in trouble. 13 is the number to be reduced.


freezers are going to fill fast here this spring.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I am going to cut down on my breeds and Varieties (and pure numbers) so they might just lose them unless I can sell them. 

I want to get down to JJ, a Slate Tom (Sidekick)  2 slate hens,  a palm Tom, 2 hens,  a Bronze and 2 hens and maybe a black... the rest are in trouble.    13 is the number to be reduced.


freezers are going to fill fast here this spring. 

Wow, how many do you have now? That sounds like a dramatic drop.