A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[OneMountainAcres]

Anyone know what breed these babies might be ?

I'd say bronze or possibly red bronze if they have a bit of a red hue to them.

Ralph-your distaste for ducks is just unbelievable!

R2elk-stay warm! I'm freezing just reading your post!


Well, I'm having a very successful hatch now that I've moved all the turkey eggs. It was successful before but much more carefree now. I think all but 2 have hatched so far (of 18) and besides that little disaster yesterday, everything is great! Poults are all strong and healthy. They will be going to the first swap of the year with me tomorrow and I don't expect to being many home lol.

 

[R2elk]

I'd say bronze or possibly red bronze if they have a bit of a red hue to them.

Ralph-your distaste for ducks is just unbelievable!

R2elk-stay warm! I'm freezing just reading your post!


Well, I'm having a very successful hatch now that I've moved all the turkey eggs. It was successful before but much more carefree now. I think all but 2 have hatched so far (of 18) and besides that little disaster yesterday, everything is great! Poults are all strong and healthy. They will be going to the first swap of the year with me tomorrow and I don't expect to being many home lol.

I am nice and warm now. Got a fire going. Just for a precaution I plugged in a heater in the greenhouse. I have a huge tomato plant in there that is loaded with tomatoes, some of which are just a few days from being ripe. My pepper plants are just about to start blooming.

 

[Bantambird]

I'm finding the turkey market here for poults is certainly a thing, as they are both expensive at the feed store and either aren't carried, require a minimum purchase of 15, or only offer bb turkey. I put out an ad on Craigslist and unloaded all my extras. There are no poultry swaps or meets as far as I know here. I'm going to be moving in about a year or so, and once I get settled, that's when I'll get my NPIP and really get the gears rolling on this thing. Oh, r2elk, congrats on your state passing that food freedom bill. I'm very jealous! If we had that here, I would totally sell homemade pies and home processed chickens and turkeys and eggs from the house. And sourdough bread too.

 

[memphis]

Food Freedom Bill? Now that sound interesting! Is it regulated, or can you sell food products to the public without state involvement?

Bantambird, I have a local baker that will buy every turkey egg I will sell her. Mine arent fertile, so those we dont eat, she gets.

R2elk, didn't know you had a greenhouse. Boy am I jealous of that tomato! I consider them one of the best parts of summer. I plant two sweet orange cherry tomato plants in pots on either side of my front porch. They grow up a trellis and form a small canopy at my front door. And for the five years I've done that, not one ever made it into the house. I literally pick them & eat them right there on the porch. Nothing better than a sun warmed tomato right off the vine! Just the best!

 

[duluthralphie]

Morning.. Only one poult out of 4 eggs....The other three are taking up space. That was last night. I have not checked the hatcher today for April fools babies.

I have 80 CLB eggs in the hatcher. I am hoping to get a dozen girls. I think of that 80, less than a dozen are whites. I must have sold too many white eggs three weeks ago. I also noticed and I have no idea how this happened but this coming week I only have turkey eggs set. I think someone stole my eggs.

OR I did something stupid and wrote the wrong date on them and threw them out....

I want to know what the food freedom act is too. I think I like it..

Of course, a good liberal state like Minnesota would never do something to make selling things easier. The state needs to protect us from ourselves....

 

[R2elk]

I'm finding the turkey market here for poults is certainly a thing, as they are both expensive at the feed store and either aren't carried, require a minimum purchase of 15, or only offer bb turkey. I put out an ad on Craigslist and unloaded all my extras. There are no poultry swaps or meets as far as I know here. I'm going to be moving in about a year or so, and once I get settled, that's when I'll get my NPIP and really get the gears rolling on this thing. Oh, r2elk, congrats on your state passing that food freedom bill. I'm very jealous! If we had that here, I would totally sell homemade pies and home processed chickens and turkeys and eggs from the house. And sourdough bread too.

I don't get the newspaper and I don't watch or listen to news programs so am really poorly informed when it comes to current events. From a quick google search, this is the second version that has passed. I may be wrong but believe the first bill was about making the commonplace sale of raw milk legal. Wyoming being a ranching state has always had prohibitive laws not only against the sale of homegrown food products but even against having your own homegrown meat products. While you can now have chickens in many towns, most zoning regulations prohibit having any animals that can be used for food in rural areas.

Those laws, etc. were passed in an effort to prevent any competition for the ranchers. Now that the legislator is becoming more controlled by lawyers than ranchers some laws are being written with more benefit to the citizens than the ranchers. (Who would have expected anything good from lawyers?)

https://www.farmtoconsumer.org/blog/2017/03/28/wyoming-expands-food-freedom-act/

 

[R2elk]

Food Freedom Bill? Now that sound interesting! Is it regulated, or can you sell food products to the public without state involvement?

Bantambird, I have a local baker that will buy every turkey egg I will sell her. Mine arent fertile, so those we dont eat, she gets.

R2elk, didn't know you had a greenhouse. Boy am I jealous of that tomato! I consider them one of the best parts of summer. I plant two sweet orange cherry tomato plants in pots on either side of my front porch. They grow up a trellis and form a small canopy at my front door. And for the five years I've done that, not one ever made it into the house. I literally pick them & eat them right there on the porch. Nothing better than a sun warmed tomato right off the vine! Just the best!

You should try Gold Nugget tomatoes. They are a yellow cherry tomato that is not a hybrid so the seeds can be saved if they are grown away from other tomatoes. They do well in a pot and they are prolific producers. My current plant is using at least a gallon of water every day and is so loaded with tomatoes that it isn't funny. They are the only tomato plant that I have found that will both blossom and set fruit under the high temperature conditions in my greenhouse. It gets over 110°F in there daily during the summer and that is with both doors open and a fan running wired to a thermostat for cooling purposes. We get a lot of sunny hours during the summertime.

One year I had one growing in a larger container and it was going through at least 3 gallons of water daily. I got a little behind in the watering. Instead of the usual size tomatoes it made a lot of tiny, dense ripe tomatoes. I would pick them by the handfuls and it was more like eating candy than tomatoes.

Since I live on a sand dune, most of the tomatoes that I planted tasted the same. They didn't have a whole lot of flavor and the texture was poor. I learned about azomite (trace minerals mined outside of Salt lake City. Utah) and now no one grows better tasting tomatoes than I do. It is also fed to livestock and poultry by those wanting the best from their herds and flocks.

I got at least 5" of snow yesterday. It was of the giant snowflake variety (up to 1 1/2" in diameter). It stopped snowing shortly after midnight and everything is covered in a minimum of 3" of white stuff.

 

[memphis]

Gold Nugget is what I grow!! And they are like candy!!

 

[memphis]

Azomite?? I need to learn more about that.....

 

[R2elk]

Azomite?? I need to learn more about that.....

http://www.underwoodgardens.com/mineral-restoration-of-your-garden-soil/

I swear by it. It makes my beets so sweet that they cannot be pickled with the usual one part wart water, one part vinegar and one part sugar method. The sugar in the beets uses up all of the available acid so the added sugar has to be reduced to allow enough acidity to pickle the beets.

I introduced my Doctor to azomite and now instead of checking out my physical condition he starts telling me about all the wonders that azomite has done for his garden, plants and trees.

I am sure there are other trace mineral supplements that are effective but I have not used them and I know that azomite does wonders.