Colorado

[Rock Home Isle]

pigs with feathers. Growing fast. the bronze turkeys are as big as the chicken hens.

I think next spring we're going to get a couple toms and raise for the holidays...I know I'm going to attached to them....I just know it.

 

[Hummingbird Hollow]

When I make kale chips or add kale to my salads I cut off the ribs for my chickens. As long as I cut them into little bits they eat them up just fine. I think they are a bit too tough for them to toss around and break into tiny pieces, but if I do the work for them, they eat them right up. I tend to keep a bowl beside the sink where all my cucumber and carrot peels, kale ribs, pepper seeds, not quite so crisp lettuce etc. as well as egg shells go. Either early in the morning or late in the afternoon I throw it all on the chopping board and chop it all into chicken-bite-sized pieces, perhaps toss in a bit of scratch and bring it out to the girls. They seem gobble it all down.

 

[WendyGeisler]

I have crossed the line, from chickie mommy to the land of
baby turkeys!!

 

[P-Funk]

So the guy at the end of the road got foreclosed on. Almost everything is gone, including his animals (chickens, pigs, dogs, ducks, geese) except 1 goat. Would it be wrong for me to go and just take him?

 

[samsr]

So the guy at the end of the road got foreclosed on. Almost everything is gone, including his animals (chickens, pigs, dogs, ducks, geese) except 1 goat. Would it be wrong for me to go and just take him?

If he just got left there, then I would gather him up also. No need seeing something like that have to fend totally for himself. I know they are pretty much a garbage disposal, but winter is hard on them like most animals.

 

[Minchi]

I have crossed the line, from chickie mommy to the land of
baby turkeys!!

Very cute.

 

[Pozees]

So the guy at the end of the road got foreclosed on. Almost everything is gone, including his animals (chickens, pigs, dogs, ducks, geese) except 1 goat. Would it be wrong for me to go and just take him?

I think it would be right. If someone comes looking for him you can always relinquish him then, but left to his own he's probably going to be some predator's meal soon enough. I had goats years ago, mostly cashmeres, and they can turn bad pasture to good in only a couple of years, eating the weeds and leaving the grass for the most part. The grass they do eat they don't kill, they just trim it. Only problems are that there probably isn't a fence they can't overcome if it isn't electric, and the intact males can be pretty smelly. I think the positives outweigh the negatives.

 

[Pozees]

I have crossed the line, from chickie mommy to the land of
baby turkeys!!

LOL I saw that coming They're cute! What breeds, do you know?

 

[wsmith]

I have crossed the line, from chickie mommy to the land of
baby turkeys!!

Awesome! Turkey poults are hilarious. Their brains operate differently than chickens, so you're in for a treat.

 

[wsmith]

I think next spring we're going to get a couple toms and raise for the holidays...I know I'm going to attached to them....I just know it.

We will eat the smaller of the two Naragansett toms, and keep the big one and the hen. The two bronze poults are destined for the oven. One is spoken for, a guy at work wants him, the other will probably go into the freezer. The Bronze poults are quickly catching up to the Narragansetts in size.