A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[JRNash]

Is there a button I don't know about that you press to direct your conversation at someone?

 

[JRNash]

There are a few of the "NOT" midgets that are starting to annoy me. That is generally a prelude to a massacre. Like the roosters. I see one grab one of the chicks and its alllllllll over.

 

[JRNash]

Wrong place and off topic BUT does anyone have any idea WHAT this is?? I just noticed a half dozen or so different sizes . I bought two and ONLY two Rhode island reds from Tractor Supply a while back. I'm pretty sure THEY died. There are at least 6 of these. This one is extremely long legged. What ever it is is growing the frame to be a BIG chicken.

 

[JRNash]

Yellow legs yellow eyes and it looks to have dark tips to the tail feathers. If its one of my olive egger hatches it slipped by me.

 

[R2elk]

Is there a button I don't know about that you press to direct your conversation at someone?

Press the Reply button (lower right) in the post that you want to respond to and it will automatically quote that post for you with the cursor in the proper place to start writing your message.

 

[JRNash]

The obvious often escapes me.

 

[JRNash]

Ralph's comment about genotype sent me off on another eye crossing internet search. I ended up reading a study by "BMC Genomics" they did the DNA thingy and came up with some (to me) interesting data on our turkeys.
For one thing ( I didn't know) the heritage and production strains all originate from southern Mexico way back when. Turkeys also have less genetic diversity than any other domesticated animal. They said a lot more stuff that I didn't fully understand but did find interesting

 

[JRNash]

Something about all the turkeys being from the same haploid group. I think that means they went swimming in a shallow gene pool

 

[Ravynscroft]

Wrong place and off topic BUT does anyone have any idea WHAT this is?? I just noticed a half dozen or so different sizes . I bought two and ONLY two Rhode island reds from Tractor Supply a while back. I'm pretty sure THEY died. There are at least 6 of these. This one is extremely long legged. What ever it is is growing the frame to be a BIG chicken.View attachment 1066142

Red Ranger, maybe?

The obvious often escapes me.

Don't feel alone... I can understand some very complicated things, but some days walking and chewing gum at the same time is impossible...

Something about all the turkeys being from the same haploid group. I think that means they went swimming in a shallow gene pool

Means they are all the same breed... there's just different color varieties...

 

[Ravynscroft]

I agree. They are so inquisitive and curious, that I would think they would know everything about their environment. I was watching the poults after I moved them to the brooder, and within minutes, they had explored every corner of it and pecked at everything in sight. Found the nipple drinkers and the different feeders. It made me wonder why they even need mentors.

I don't have mentors with my poults...

I run my bators around 100-100.5 and 30%-ish humidity until lockdown, then bump it up to 65%. Turkeys routinely hatch 1 day early and chickens right on time.

My turkeys are on time, chickens can vary, lol... I have bantams and lf...

huge tick issues here, i need more birds

You need more Calls... free range those guys...

Folks,

What type of predator prefers the innards over the carcass? What ever it is, appears that my top roo went toe to toe with it last night and lost. His head was bloody--but intact. None of the carcass meat was touched. What ever it was was big enough to knock down the fence on the way out. I have no idea how it got in.

To add insult to injury, I've got a couple coyotes that have been trying to figure out how to defeat the fence. Once I figure out their time table, that threat will end. But I'm still trying to figure out what else I'm hunting...

Sorry, Bob, that's awful.... just took out a HUGE coon myself last night, duck eggs were his specialty though, luckily he hadn't upgraded yet...

I have been under the weather and went out late to feed and release birds.....

over 20 dead in the Guinea Gulag. I think this is the 4th year I have had it and never had a predator. I walked around and saw 2 spots something tried to get in and dug towards the pen but the wire underneath is intact and it stopped the attack.

I will have to look closer this afternoon. At this rate I will be birdless in 6 weeks. The guinea gulag is the last place I expected an attack to succeed. I think it opened the door, locked it after it and when it left.

Not one of the birds appears eaten. The last attack like this (3 weeks ago) I lost over 20 and about 20 died in next 2 weeks from injuries or infection from the bites. I do not even notice they are sick until they die from the battle injuries.

The last attack was my fault I have no horizontal hardware cloth as it was a temporary pen. This one had the barrier.


Arrrrrrrgggghhhhhhhhhhhh

That's even more awful! Sorry for your losses... fisher, maybe?

soory for the attack.. sounds like a weasel or a relative of weasel.. they can get in any opening bigger than 1/2" and they climb ( see my profile pic)

X2 ask Alaskan about the stoat that decimated his flock...

If I ran dry in my climate, nothing would hatch... Dry humidity here is around 10% and adding water bumps to 20-30% for incubating. I put in three reservoirs in my hatcher to bump up humidity to 70-80%, the Marans have a hard time otherwise.

Dry here is 30-40%, no lower... Bob is in my climate, thus my suggestion... but I clarified my humidity in another post...

@DwayneNLiz henceforth DL.
In my defence I prefer ham.....and they GIVE away FREE Turkeys when you buy a ham....

I prefer ham as well...

And I call her Liz, lol...