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Bama1 said:
Its a good thing I dont !
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oh, ok!
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huntinwidow said:


Ok, here's the amazing story. I decided I wanted turkey eggs and found someone on craigslist near me offering bronze turkey eggs for sale. When I contacted him he said he had been unable to hatch them and thought them to be infertile. Because of that he was willing to give them to me. I felt bad and offered to trade chicken eggs for them.
When I got there, I found out he only had one pair. So the oldest of the 9 eggs he "gave" me was at least 9 days and probably 12 days old. I put 6 under a BCM broody and the other 3 in my incubator. Well my OE decided to set the same nest. But she must have laid one last egg before she went broody because at 24 days on the turkey a baby chick hatched from under the hens and they both left the nest with the turkey eggs. I found them cold and was certain they would never hatch. I rushed them to my incubator and to my surprise today I had 6 healthy little poults.
The moral to the story is never give up.
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Congrats. I may try raising a couple of turkeys next year. I'd like to hear an occasional gobble on our property.
 
Been a long break from BYC.... We have ended our 12 year olds varsity softball season, got our second oldest graduated and off to her new job (she is coming home in the fall for college), and finally got our chicken "house" almost finished!!!! The kids and I went to TN over the weekend and had to rush home cause we had one of our Am's go missing (the hubby was really upset when he came in off the train and couldn't find her and even more so when the sitter confirmed she was missing and hadn't told us). Then when putting them to bed last night one of my Dom girls went missing. Two birds in two days, I was loosing my mind!!!! Hubby had the son out checking every 30 during the night and has sworn he will take time off to finish the house when he gets back in....lol. So when letting the big babies out of the house this morning I turned and saw my missing Dom girl I was overly excited!!!! The son and I have since named her Hudini....lol can't wait to finish the coop so when I go out of town I don't have to worry about them, no one care for your babies like you do.....

Here's the house, almost finished just need to get them a little fenced in area and its good to go. It's supposed to be tractor style, but might eventually see if hubby will make it stationary so the run can be larger.....
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BSisco said:
Been a long break from BYC.... We have ended our 12 year olds varsity softball season, got our second oldest graduated and off to her new job (she is coming home in the fall for college), and finally got our chicken "house" almost finished!!!! The kids and I went to TN over the weekend and had to rush home cause we had one of our Am's go missing (the hubby was really upset when he came in off the train and couldn't find her and even more so when the sitter confirmed she was missing and hadn't told us). Then when putting them to bed last night one of my Dom girls went missing. Two birds in two days, I was loosing my mind!!!! Hubby had the son out checking every 30 during the night and has sworn he will take time off to finish the house when he gets back in....lol. So when letting the big babies out of the house this morning I turned and saw my missing Dom girl I was overly excited!!!! The son and I have since named her Hudini....lol can't wait to finish the coop so when I go out of town I don't have to worry about them, no one care for your babies like you do.....

Here's the house, almost finished just need to get them a little fenced in area and its good to go. It's supposed to be tractor style, but might eventually see if hubby will make it stationary so the run can be larger.....
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Your new house looks very nice! And so nice you found Hudini! lol
I had some get out of their new run the same day we finished it and we had to run to the store. When we got back DH went out to check on them and 1/2 our birds were out and huddled in the corner of the run and coop! They were trying to get back in! lol
 
BSisco said:
Been a long break from BYC.... We have ended our 12 year olds varsity softball season, got our second oldest graduated and off to her new job (she is coming home in the fall for college), and finally got our chicken "house" almost finished!!!! The kids and I went to TN over the weekend and had to rush home cause we had one of our Am's go missing (the hubby was really upset when he came in off the train and couldn't find her and even more so when the sitter confirmed she was missing and hadn't told us). Then when putting them to bed last night one of my Dom girls went missing. Two birds in two days, I was loosing my mind!!!! Hubby had the son out checking every 30 during the night and has sworn he will take time off to finish the house when he gets back in....lol. So when letting the big babies out of the house this morning I turned and saw my missing Dom girl I was overly excited!!!! The son and I have since named her Hudini....lol can't wait to finish the coop so when I go out of town I don't have to worry about them, no one care for your babies like you do.....

Here's the house, almost finished just need to get them a little fenced in area and its good to go. It's supposed to be tractor style, but might eventually see if hubby will make it stationary so the run can be larger.....
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NICE
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And glad you found your missing Dom
 
Wisher1000 said:
I always wait until the roos are about seven months old before I decide. There is usually one (maybe two) that stands out by that time. Gentle with the girls, vigilent, intolerant of the younger ones (leadership and protectiveness) nice looking (remember, he will be passing all those traits on to your future chicks) and most importantly, non-aggressive toward people.
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Thanks Wisher, that is a great idea, been playing around with it, wondering if there's enough room between the nursery pen (6 x 12) holding the 7 week olds, and the big pen holding the 9 week olds. (14 x 14). Hoping those roos will get along for as long as possible. Thinking eventually having to separate the roos into the 6 x 12?
 

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