Yes 30 will make it a much quieter. Still have about 32 jakes here left a few keeping for new breeding stock and others should be gone by Thanksgiving. Still have about 40 jennies and a few of them for new breeding stock and rest will probably be smoked. A lot of work smoking all of them but they go so fast can never seem to do enough to keep everyone happy.
Once his mottling becomes more prominent next year, he will be super gorgeous along with his relatives. I am looking forward to it!
I'm jealous! Absolutely NONE of my birds, even the chickens and turkeys, like pumpkins. I have never been able to get them to even try it. The turkeys circle them like some kind of predator making their little wary noises. It's crazy! I wish I could get them to like them, honestly, I really like the idea of giving them treats like that they can peck on for awhile rather than just eat in a second.
Ya sometimes some of my young birds that never had them yet act the same way. I just throw them some of the seeds farther away from the split pumpkin so they get used to eating them and find out they really like them. Then kind of sprinkle the seeds up to pumpkin with some on top and tap the pumpkin with my finger like I'm pecking them, they seem to take to them after awhile then start pecking at pumpkin itself. But much easier to have older birds that already know what they are and have been eating them go after them then young birds just have to try them for themselves. Isn't it funny how they are with things they have never seen
This one is just a Mottled black. If it were a "barred" version, then there wouldn't be white feathers but bronze feathers.
Got home around 8am. It's Just a little past 2pm now. What a horrific and said day. When my husband and I pulled up in the drive I thought somthing was wrong because no turkeys, chickens or ducks came to great us as always. So we got out of the car and went around the house to fined a massacre. Blood and feathers every where. All my chickens, ducks and turkeys gone. Found one dead chicken. Then found one of my turkey hens on her back unable to upright herself. I ran to help her. Then my son found one down around the tree line with alot of her neck tour open but alive. My husband yells it's dogs. Dogs did this. The back yard full of tracks in the mud. My husband grabs two guns and gives me one. We start looking for servivers and body's. I still only have found one body. After about a hour my son finds another turkey hen. She is in bad shape too. Big amount of flesh and meat out of her back. Then we found one turkey Tom hiding in a dog house the ducks use for egg laying. He's beat up a bit but not bad. He's in shock I think. We keep finding chickens wandering around toward the house. No idea where they are coming from. Still have alot missing. Found all the ducks. Some was in the next door neighbors pond. Some in the cat house. My pour babies. Still missing half my chickens and one turkey Tom and one turkey hen.
the next door neighbors just came up and found one of my turkeys. She's dead. 
