A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[Bantambird]

Ralphie - there is a lot of truth to what you said! I live in that little narrow piece of MD where I can see PA and WV. Both borders are approx 2 miles from my location. At least I won't have far to run if the Po-lice come after me.

One of my grandsons left this week to spend the summer in Montana with his other grandparents. I fear he will never be the same once he returns.

I'm in Montana. It's a big state, and r2elk is a southern neighbor. Even though it gets hot in the summer, at least it is dry heat so sweating actually does something other than make you sticky. I feel bad for you southerners complaining about the humidity! I don't think I could do it. When I visited Iowa as a kid, I hated the humidity there. Plus being at lower elevations feels wierd breathing that thick air. My parent's ranch is 5 sections deeded and 5 sections BLM in central Montana, in one of the least populated counties in the lower 48. Yeah, back east the ranches are tiny! My parents ranch is considered modest! (A section is a square mile)

 

[JRNash]

Are you sure it's a warning? My experience is if you happen to be in the direct flight path, especially the return path, they will slam right into you since they do not deviate from their path.

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• R2elk
• Jun 10, 2017
• 3

Where is the air traffic control when you need it?

I have a friend that raises a ton of bees. He has seen the same behavior.
Once they start with the head butt if you go closer then they go to stinging

 

[R2elk]

I have a friend that raises a ton of bees. He has seen the same behavior.
Once they start with the head butt if you go closer then they go to stinging

I have been raising bees since I was a kid and I disagree with you. The only bees that I have heard of that do an intentional head butt are the Russian bees.

All bees when returning to their hive with their load of nectar and pollen will fly straight to the hive. If you happen to be in their way, they will slam right into you. It is not a warning.

I walk within 6" to 18" of my hives daily without any attacks but do get the occasional hit and bounce off when I happen to get directly in the path of a bee returning to the hive.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Let's talk about bees... I'm a new bee keeper. Got three hives. Went out this morning and one was literally covered in bees. Since today is check the hive day, I suited up and went in. I have a queen who is an over achiever... Two of my hives are progressing as expected, but this one.. WOW! They had pulled out comb in all 10 frames of the upper box and filled most of them. Again, WOW! So I setup another super to add to the hive. Then the rain came. ARG. Then it quit, so Off I went to add another super to the hive. Couldn't get the smoker fired up given the weather so just used a brush and added the new super. WOW! I really pissed off the bees. They chased me all the way back to the house. ARG!

Wow that's crazy! Did you get stung at all? We're still hoping to catch a wild swarm. A few weeks ago, we had 2-3 scouts checking out our one how. They spent half the day going in and out and circling. I was so excited about it. Then it started raining and rained for a week straight. I haven't seen them back

I have a wild hive in a hollow oak right behind the house. If I get too close with the tractor they will start head butting me. The head butt is a warning to back off. The aggression zone isn't very big.

That's interesting. I'll have to remember that once we do get bees

Aurora, rejoice in being still in your 30s! Sure, it's not 20s any more, but it is SO much younger than 50s. And don't put stuff off "until the kids get older". Because time starts to fly too fast, and some projects are better started sooner rather than later.

Lol, ok. Our kids are already 10 and 12.they grow so fast!

Also known as lightning bugs. Western Maryland - where I can see 3 states from my front door. )

They're lightning bugs here too

Yep I was thinking the dot is going to be the snood but I didn't know jenny's had snoods too.

I'll keep an eye out for the ones with the strange wings to see if they're toms.

Thanks

Congratulations on your new turkey babies!

 

[Finnie]

Good advise Finnie. But am finding out there is something special about each decade.

Memphis, I certainly hope so! Longevity runs in my family, so I'm pretty sure I have 3 or 4 more decades to go, and at this point, with joints starting to hurt, I'm a little nervous. And there are lots of things I want to do that require strength...

Like JR said, I don't know if some of my projects are feasible.

A couple of the poults look like they have angel wing but I researched

Hi Finnisher-welcome! When I got my first poults, two of them got misshapen wings. I researched too, and couldn't find anything. Those two turned out to be one tom and one hen. The tom went back to the breeder at 4 weeks of age because he had severe leg deformities. The female was the replacement for him. She outgrew those angel wings when the next set of feathers grew in. She is my narri Muffin, two years old now.

Ok, I have caught up, The new format showing the postings on each page at the bottom is confusing to us old and feeble minded...
I saw Memphis's post to R2elk on the picture and thought I missed it so I went back several pages looking for it.. Then gave up and went ahead and found it.,.WOW>..

I have had this problem several times. Now I know to expect it if I reply directly to someone's post, or to avoid it by waiting to reply until I have come to the end of all the new posts. BUT, if I take too long typing, there are often new posts that came before I added mine, but they come after my post! Until I go to the next page, then there my post is again, at the end. It takes some getting used to. It's weird.

 

[Finnie]

Memphis called for a photo bomb, so when I went out to take that picture of Muffin, I took a bunch of others too.

Swan, Blue Palm hen

Swan's children, Blue Red Bronze poults, they are 3 months old today. One of them is not blue, so I call that "Black" Red Bronze when I want to specify the difference, even though the term Red Bronze implies that. I named him Blackberry. My daughter named all the other ones different kinds of berries. Idk what though, so I call them all Dingleberry!

The new tom never really got a name, so I'm thinking Elderberry, since he's so old. Oh- and I did witness what could have been a successful mating the other day, so now Im hoping that means Muffin will start to lay again soon.

Black Langshan rooster Freddy.

Flora, one of two 15 week old SS pullets.

Tried to capture the 12 week old straight run SS, but they stick too close to their posse. My CLxEE hybrids are in this group too along with a couple other cockerels.

Here's Swanee. I'm surprised she's off her imaginary nest, so maybe that means she will go back to laying soon too.

Blackberry and a Dingleberry

 

[Bantambird]

Memphis, I certainly hope so! Longevity runs in my family, so I'm pretty sure I have 3 or 4 more decades to go, and at this point, with joints starting to hurt, I'm a little nervous. And there are lots of things I want to do that require strength...

Like JR said, I don't know if some of my projects are feasible.


Hi Finnisher-welcome! When I got my first poults, two of them got misshapen wings. I researched too, and couldn't find anything. Those two turned out to be one tom and one hen. The tom went back to the breeder at 4 weeks of age because he had severe leg deformities. The female was the replacement for him. She outgrew those angel wings when the next set of feathers grew in. She is my narri Muffin, two years old now.
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I have had this problem several times. Now I know to expect it if I reply directly to someone's post, or to avoid it by waiting to reply until I have come to the end of all the new posts. BUT, if I take too long typing, there are often new posts that came before I added mine, but they come after my post! Until I go to the next page, then there my post is again, at the end. It takes some getting used to. It's weird.

My dad is in his early 60s and still hand tosses square bales during haying season. Last year he stacked 6000 bales. He's a beast.

 

[rjohns39]

Wow that's crazy! Did you get stung at all? We're still hoping to catch a wild swarm. A few weeks ago, we had 2-3 scouts checking out our one how. They spent half the day going in and out and circling. I was so excited about it. Then it started raining and rained for a week straight. I haven't seen them back

No stings. I was out there today and they are happy again.

 

[memphis]

Finnie....love the "berry" theme! Elderberry is PERFECT for the tom. Beautiful flock. Love the SS!
Bantambird....do they actually have ranches in the eastern time zone?
Aurora....hope a swarm finds your box! A few of my friends raise bees and just love it. I guess its time consuming but what a cool hobby.

 

[holm25]

Here is pics of my lone little poult that's inside. Definitely think he is a Narri. But who knows. Trying to think of a name but can't come up without one... And there is a pic of his brooder mate too . The chicks is 1/4 welsummer 1/4 Australorp and 1/2 Buckeye