calling any one from missouri

[karenerwin]

I’ve been dealing with bed time issues too... think we’ve got a routine now though...

I’ve been taking Laurel and Hardy for a walk around 7, then I sit on the front porch while they mill around until they get ready, then they come roost on me around 7:30... the chicken first then eventually the turkey

then I walk through the house with them riding on my shoulders and put them in their ‘crib’ which is a storage tub with a heating pad set to low on the screened in back porch...

I think if the turkey saw fire flies he’d want to stay up all night, lol

a couple more weeks of this and they can stay out in their ‘day coop’ all night

JUst be sure that their "day coop" doesn't have anywhere that raccoons can fit their little hands through! We lost 2 turkey pullets ( 8 to 10 weeks old) and a 3rd one got scalped but lived through it when we had moved them to their coop. They had decided to roost on the ground near the side of the coop. The nasty raccoon(s) pulled them through in pieces or else grabbed them and held them to where they couldn't get away.
After that incident I put much smaller mesh hardware cloth all around the base of the coop and up about 3 feet. Never had that problem again. That was my first time with turkeys, several years ago.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

JUst be sure that their "day coop" doesn't have anywhere that raccoons can fit their little hands through! We lost 2 turkey pullets ( 8 to 10 weeks old) and a 3rd one got scalped but lived through it when we had moved them to their coop. They had decided to roost on the ground near the side of the coop. The nasty raccoon(s) pulled them through in pieces or else grabbed them and held them to where they couldn't get away.
After that incident I put much smaller mesh hardware cloth all around the base of the coop and up about 3 feet. Never had that problem again. That was my first time with turkeys, several years ago.

That’s good stuff to think about for sure... I won’t tempt the jinxes by saying it’s raccoon proof... but it’s pretty good... I’m guessing not bear proof though

But we’re just now entering the time period when a few of the many raccoons that were drawn to the mulberry tree start testing the coop setup because the mulberries are running out... so I’ll have to keep an eye out and likely remove a couple problem critters

The ‘day coop’ is actually all solid walls all the way around... it’s the other half of the lean-to that is the chicken coop... and has enclosed run on two sides, coop on one side, and the last side is into the shed...

Right now we go for a walk at 6:30 in the mornings and then they go to the day coop and I then let the cat out...

then I make sure the cat is locked in the garage, and we walk the yard looking at flowers and hunting bugs a few times during the day...

Then I put them up, let the cat out... rinse and repeat, lol... it’s a bit of a circus

I was sniffing one of the bee hives here at the house today (I love that funky fermented bee bread/honey smell that a hive has when they’ve been productive for a while) and the turkey snuck up to see what I was doing... and got interested in the bees... I tried to call it away... but that didn’t seem to work... and around to the front of the hive it went!...

I guess Ma Nature installs baby turkeys with ‘bee beware’ because it putted it’s little put and ran back toward me, somehow knowing that was danger, lol

 

[shawluvsbirds]

 

[OhZark Biddies]

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fence lilies!!!!

 

[OhZark Biddies]

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remember these? ... you posted some of these last week or so...

something beard foxglove... or foxglove beard something....

Laurel and Hardy and I found some on the power line

Also a bunch of ‘black eyed Susans’...

 

[shawluvsbirds]

remember these? ... you posted some of these last week or so...

something beard foxglove... or foxglove beard something....

Laurel and Hardy and I found some on the power line

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Also a bunch of ‘black eyed Susans’...
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I spotted some growing wild out at the school house place too.

I was working on my little fountain pond today and realised some of my lilies over there didn't come up this year.
I had some fancy peachy colored ones an old friend give me starts of years ago.
Not a trace of them. .
That makes me sad.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

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Hello! Would anyone want Loui? His is a three year old Porcelain D’uccle and still fertile. We bought him for 4-H but stopped doing it so now we need to get rid of him. I posted a thread on it but no one lived near enough to take him so I thought I’d try the MO thread He’s also for free so if any body want him I live near Kansas City

He is a handsome fella and I hope you find him a worthy home. We're roostered up, now having three .... and we're clear on the other end of the state. Have I told this thread the story of Wesley and Buttercup?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I'm from southwest (guess you can call it that) where are others from. We just recently just started back with chickens...

Southeast. Poplar Bluff area. -ish.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

It's hard to get my young chickens to go to bed. They want to stay up late. The adults all go in before 8. Moonshine gets her brood in slightly after 8, they all follow her in. But my 7 have no such direction and like to mill around until 8:30 or later. I can't order them in, or chase them in. And if fireflies come out, they get all excited chasing them.
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Yup, those youngbloods like to stay up late and party hearty! Don't give them cell phones or they'll order pizza, then they'll keep you up till midnight!

 

[OhZark Biddies]

...Have I told this thread the story of Wesley and Buttercup?

Nope! But there better be ROUS (rodents of unusual size)!

let’s hear it!