A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[desertmarcy]

turn all the males LOOSE or eat them. Yummmmmmmy

We have more turkey than we can eat. I feed raw to my livestock guardian dogs, so they help thin out. But no way would I turn them loose only to feed the local bobcats. Besides, they are my breeding stock for the next year. I do not grow new toms each year, only if there is a reason one needs replacing.

 

[feedman77]

Desertmarcie: nice looking fall fires

After 4 days of slow soaking rain. I can say it is now a muddy mess. For some reason my hens decided that today they didn't wanna lay in the doghouses all the eggs were in the mud.

My long dreaded week at work has now become 2. The company decided to add training on my only 2 days off.

If I had some nails I could probably chew someone some nice 2 pt. Barbwire. A little perturbed.

It got the better of me I candled some of my chicken eggs that I sat for a hal. And they are veining good. So my new little roos figured it out. That's a bright spot. Lol

 

[JRNash]

I wage a constant war against my chickens going broody. One of the enterprising hens has figured out that I don't disturb the RP's. If you look closely center bottom you can make out her head. The RP's keep her covered like an overgrown chick! No telling how many eggs they are all sitting on.

 

[R2elk]

I wage a constant war against my chickens going broody. One of the enterprising hens has figured out that I don't disturb the RP's. If you look closely center bottom you can make out her head. The RP's keep her covered like an overgrown chick! No telling how many eggs they are all sitting on.

I had a Swedish Flower Hen that would only lay eggs in the turkey's nest. When both she and the turkey both went broody, the SFH sat under the turkey's wing. The co-sitters ended when the SFH decided to run the turkey hen off of the nest. The SFH got a lesson in how not to be broody. The turkey got her nest back. My arm started healing from all the nasty pecks I had gotten daily when I would remove the chicken egg from the nest.

If you want to get live poults from that nest, I highly recommend that you remove 2 of the birds from the nest permanently. From personal experience, when the poults start hatching, they will get stepped on. It does not matter how well the hens get along, it is too confined a space for that many feet.

 

[JRNash]

I plan on taking the eggs and putting them in the hatcher or under a broody hen. I have a separate pen where I can put a broody.

 

[JRNash]

And I agree about crowded. Lol

 

[JRNash]

I had the turkey eggs dated. Have to see what all is under them tomorrow

 

[Finnie]

I had the turkey eggs dated. Have to see what all is under them tomorrow

That ought to be interesting.

 

[memphis]

Feedman...it rained most of the time I was in Ste. Genevieve too. Sorry about the work overload....hang in there!

So I was in Missouri for 4 days. I swear my birds miss me. They are so clingy when I get back. Annie thought she was going broody. My chicken sitter thought she was laying an egg this morning. Well she was still sitting on it when I got home this afternoon. Kicked her out & stole her egg. Just hoping she decides she has better things to do than go broody.

 

[Finnie]

Here I sit at 11:30 pm, waiting for my Incuview to heat up so I can put Ralphie's Eggs in lockdown. I'm going to need a Grandma nap tomorrow! (Can I say that, even though my grandson isn't due for 2 1/2 more weeks?)

I had dog obedience class tonight, so there was a delay in moving the hatched chicks to the brooder and cleaning the debris out of the Incuview. And I got impatient this afternoon wanting to get this last hatch over with, and I assisted a chick to its death.

There were 3 that pipped late, and then made themselves little round windows, and I thought they were not going to make it out. So I interfered, and the chick didn't make it. (It looked glued stuck, so it might not have anyway, but I shouldn't have messed with it.) The other two I started to help, saw veins and put them back, and they finished hatching on their own. I hope I learned my lesson to trust the eggs and just back off.

Well, Incuview looks good, so I'm off to move the REs.