A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[Huntmaster]

Thats why I gave them all the quail eggs today I just blend them shell and all. Throw them in microwave and Quail egg Soufflet for all the birds.

 

[KF0002]

I've been getting eggs from the sweetgrass pen finally. I have Narragansett split BWB x sweetgrass poults due next week. Those were not an intentional crossing but I threw them in the incubator anyway. My incubator won't be cold until late summer.

My Narragansett hen, Sassy is broody but I fear she was off the nest too long yesterday and it was cold. Somehow she managed to fly over into the goat lot with the bachelor toms and couldnt figure out how to get back out. I will candle her eggs soon and see if they are any good. She's been broody a week or so maybe.

 

[KF0002]

My oldest has had her FFA advisor trying to get her to get a market turkey, since our fair won't let the kids sell a heritage turkey as a market animal at the sale, so I relented when I saw a brand new batch of bbw poults at the Big R store. They hadn't gotten pinions and still had their egg teeth, so I knew they had just come. I also know that a lot of the feed store places don't understand that poults and chicks have different feed requirements so they feed them the same things on the display floor. I picked the ones that seemed the most active in the tub. I got her 4, so there are backup poults. They have all integrated with my newly hatched chicks, and are eating, drinking, and figured out where the infrared heater is. Even those chunky bbw are cute when they are tiny, although even as newly hatched, they seem bigger than heritage poults. Let's hope the kids get their birds to do well at fair this year!

 Awe that sounds like fun! If I didn't already have "too many" turkeys (or so says my husband), I would get some BB for meat. I hope they do well at the fair!

 

[KF0002]

Thats why I gave them all the quail eggs today I just blend them shell and all. Throw them in microwave and Quail egg Soufflet for all the birds.

I boil surplus eggs and feed them back to the hens, shell and all also. They love them.

 

[I Like Turkeys]

A new girl laid a chicken egg sized egg. Not incubating an egg that small but it’s cute to look at.

 

[KF0002]

A new girl laid a chicken egg sized egg. Not incubating an egg that small but it’s cute to look at.View attachment 3760508

Aww it is cute!

 

[TesoroSena]

Omg this thread was here for like 14 years! Wow

 

[R2elk]

Omg this thread was here for like 14 years! Wow

Check your math. First post was Apr. 5, 2015. Fourteen years won't be until 2029.

 

[Huntmaster]

Only need to keep it going for 76 edit to (91) more years to complete title.

A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100. ​

 

[R2elk]

And only need to keep going for 76 years more to complete title.

A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100. ​

Wow another bad mather. 100 -14 = 86. 100 minus the actual almost 9 years it has actually been going equals 91 years still to go.