A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[PolarBerry]

My husband's birthday is today and his gift was a breadmaker in which I made him fresh bread, plus a homemade carrot cake with cream cheese frosting! My birthday wish list is canning supplies and for Christmas I want pig fencing up and a chicken coop built I'm only 28 but don't need more unusable stuff, I'd rather have more critters

 

[rjohns39]

Yay and oh no! Could you feed it corn for a week or so before the deed to help with the fat maybe? Was the burbon good to eat though? I saw some beautiful young ones today and seriously thought about snatchin em up. About how old was your rb?

Next time I'll follow Ralph's approach for the last few weeks. This guy was 22 weeks old.

 

[sfgwife]

My husband's birthday is today and his gift was a breadmaker in which I made him fresh bread, plus a homemade carrot cake with cream cheese frosting! My birthday wish list is canning supplies and for Christmas I want pig fencing up and a chicken coop built I'm only 28 but don't need more unusable stuff, I'd rather have more critters

Mmm bread! I made yeast rolls yesterday and started a sour dough starter four days ago... should be able make bread from it in a few days. Yay fall!

 

[PolarBerry]

I need to make some sourdough starter but waiting until we are back from a weekend vacation.

I also forgot how fearful of change the turkeys are... they ran out of food/water overnight and I bought them a larger feeder and waterer so wouldn't have to fill twice a day and figured I'd use them today instead of refilling the old ones again. Wasn't until I was greeted with turkey alarms vs happy food chirps that I realized the colors of the tray at the bottom changed so it was total anarchy for a bit. How dare I?!

 

[Molpet]

LOL they sure hate change...
I had yellow handle scissors in my pocket I had forgotten about until a tom jumped on my leg attaching it... what an uproar ensued

 

[PolarBerry]

Yeah, the in laws visited yesterday and came into the coop to see the turkeys and all of the turkeys were so standoffish towards even me, with sunflower seeds in my hand... like if they could sneer they would have been.

My husband caught a few grasshoppers but they couldn't refuse those.

Also don't think I ever updated on the weird yellow poops: I dewormed with some wazine after the corid and continued cayenne in their mealworm treats and it's cleared up. I also bought some fenbendazole to switch up the deworming for next time. I assume they got something from eating bugs.

 

[rjohns39]

Yea, one of my feed scoops got broken so I tossed in a new one. Last was white, this was blue. They freaked out when I started scooping feed into their trough. They actually refused to eat it for at least a few minutes, then gave in to hunger.

 

[PolarBerry]

Question: we have someone who wants to give us their 5 year old chocolate tom turkey. My poults look like 4 hens and 2 toms... I'm assuming the older male won't be able to be integrated into my flock with existing toms?

 

[R2elk]

Question: we have someone who wants to give us their 5 year old chocolate tom turkey. My poults look like 4 hens and 2 toms... I'm assuming the older male won't be able to be integrated into my flock with existing toms?

You already have one too many toms for the amount of hens you have. I know that Porter only keeps his toms through their age 4 season. I would not bring in a 5 year old tom to use as a breeder.

 

[PolarBerry]

Well one of the toms is the scissor beak one so he won't be kept as a breeder. Just not enough meat on him yet and he's still growing fine.

They got him to eat but liked him too much. Although all his companions got eaten by raccoons through the bars and now he just lives in a dog kennel by himself.

Maybe I'll take him, set up in a separate pen, and sell him off before thanksgiving for cash and tell them he ran away

He's so big we don't have a way to scald/cook him!