First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

[holm25]

Thanks!!lol

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralph, you are welcome! You can buy me a drink at the B&G.

How is your cold coming? Yukon Jack helping you through... and helping you count?!

Hooray for Bert!! I hope he keeps on the mend. I am sure he is so excited to get back to his ladies! I love the Blue Behemoth. Perfect name.

Welcome to the Bar and Grill Raisinemright! Your babies look great!

Morrigan- They look perfect!

Turkey eggs have no action yet. They are set for Friday, so everybody cross their fingers. I have informed my DH I will hold off on serving him papers until Saturday.

Here is a video from last week, maybe closer to a week and a half ago of the meatballs.
Nevermind. I have no idea how to get a video on here. I will take pics instead!

If I can put a video on here anyone can.

You need to put the video on youtube which is easy and they walk you through it step by step. Then take the "embedded" URL they give you and copy it here. Use the symbol next to the picture loading icon, that looks like a railroad track, but is suppose to be a film.

 

[raisinemright]

Such a nice day out and my 2 1/2 week olds looked a little warm in the brooder I decided to let them out in a tractor for the afternoon.
And they are loving it!!

 

[Morrigan]

And my eggs in the bator r hatching!! And they r on day 23-24

 

[Morrigan]

Such a nice day out and my 2 1/2 week olds looked a little warm in the brooder I decided to let them out in a tractor for the afternoon.
And they are loving it!!

I envy all that nice green grass you have for them to run around on. It must be great to tractor them like that. The biggest chore I have with mine is changing out there straw every day so they have a clean, dry place to lay down on. The old straw does make great compost however.

 

[mountain mom]

Wowee.. look what I did. Thanks Ralph! I owe you a Mikes.

 

[raisinemright]

I envy all that nice green grass you have for them to run around on.  It must be great to tractor them like that.  The biggest chore I have with mine is changing out there straw every day so they have a clean, dry place to lay down on.   The old straw does make great compost however.

Well thank you, I do like "pasturing" them on fresh greens daily! They seem to really like it to. The older ones seem to know the routine and they rush to the fresh grass when the tractor moves over it. If moved soon enough they don't seem to destroy any grass.

 

[Turkeytruff]

What is your recipe and how does your DH "degas" them. I'd be scared they would blow while I was doing it.

Pm me and I'll be happy to give you the recipe. I grate fresh ginger into it every other day, add a teaspoon of sugar every other day, and once a week or so make 6 -7 litre bottles with the pop up tops.

I still have my scobies saved from making my Kombucha. Crazy good. Love it with fruit in it for a second wait. Definite degas it every day for 2 days before fridge.

Yes, I used to do kombucha, still do water and milk kefir. I love it with fruit juice or ginger.

So I made it back to see some chicken talk. Yay!

DK: Glad that you just processed them. Get yourself healthy! What is your problem with loading pics? When I try to upload pics I generally have to try several times to get them to go. If it doesn't load all the way and errors, I usually hit Back and retry. Most of the time it works but if not, I just do that again and again until the go. By the way, the Limoncello looks good but I'm with Ralph. 55 gallon drum of that is the only way to make any vodka drink if you only do it once per year.

Linda: You don't listen to Ralph! Stay away from gators!! I'm adopting you as my forum momma and I need to come here to talk with you every now and then.

I missed the name but the lady from Wasilla: I grew up in Alaska and while I took for granted the stuffed freezers of venison, elk, salmon and halibut, I sure as heck miss it now. I think it is why I have two freezers that I try to keep stocked with CXs that I raise and beef and pork that I buy from people that raise them right. I would kill for a freezer full of halibut. YUMMO!

Morrigan: The final 18 will make it through. Make them work for it. The veggies were probably helping keep them in better health. Maybe you can see if a local grocery store has garbage cans of the veggies they can't sell out back. It's a great way to get free chicken yummies. I have plastic totes and pull up to them, load the totes and make my chickens very happy that way. If you do it, make sure you have a pair of dishwashing gloves to wear. The cans are heavy and the veggies are wet!

EGG BIZ UPDATE:

Chicks will be 10 weeks old today. I have 303! Still on the packing peanut side. They are growing so fast and look so healthy. They could start laying in less than 2 months. Freaky!

The chicken tractor is basically done! One of my hens even laid an egg in the nesting boxes to test them out. My mom's memorial is Wednesday, so we will gone for the day. My dh told me the plan is to move the tractor to the pasture on Friday and get it all set up. Saturday will be chicken moving day. Woohoo! I am so excited!!

Hope the moving day goes fantastically well for you, Jessica!

I'm back! Pennsylvania was cold, family drama dynamics, blah, blah. I did get to see my niece and squeeze her for a couple of days though! And my son was given the shell casings from my grandfather's 21 gun salute. That is pretty cool. And he loves casings, he looks for them every time we are camping.

I am sorry to hear of all the CX issues everyone is having!
Jessica- I am sorry for your loss. I know you said no condolences, but too bad. I am condoling away. Is that a word? No weird red squiggle, so it must be.
Happy news for all the hatching! And for Holm's chick that recovered!!

I had no idea it took so long to make limoncello. I was very excited about making my own wine for a while... then I realized I can't drink it once it is done. I have to wait. I am too impatient for such a thing.

Did you-uns (that is how people in Penn say "yall") know that there is only 3.2 beer sales in Pennsylvania? You have to search out a "state store", which let me tell you, are very few and far between, if you want even wine. Hard alcohol, seems to be sort of like Big Foot... quite mysterious indeed.
Funeral and crazy family... no alcohol. I about went insane.

Anyhow, I am not positive my turkey eggs will hatch on Friday. My "dear" husband didn't fill the water in the incubator. 0% humidity last night when I got home past midnight. Sigh. I still upped the humidity and went for lockdown. I REEEEEALY hope they hatch.
2 were totally non viable. I took them out and opened them to check them out. I think both died early. One before the development started, one just after. I am sure one was a Ethel egg. It was dark spotted, Ralph.
I hope for the best, but if no hatching, I believe my husband will be served with divorce papers.

I am such a turkey snob, I don't think I will even get some from the feed store. I will patiently wait for next spring.

On the meatball front, all things are good. All the little fluff butts came running out to see me this morning... and hunt for worms! I guess it rained yesterday. Boy, they were thrilled. They are standing on top of their little momma bird brooder now, so I may turn down the heat setting a bit. They won't fit under for too much longer.
If I get to it today, I will go take a video of them, they are so funny!

welcome back, MM! Yes family dynamics..... there's an off topic.....
Glad you survived back to the B&G! Whew! And fingers and toes triple crossed for your turkey hatching day.

Thanks..

I have one turkey egg with a hole the size of an eraser in it this morning. MM I need to thank you, I knew our eggs were on the same time schedule and I was not going to but them into the hatcher until this afternoon. When you said you put yours in lock down I decided I needed too. so'''THANKS".


I am hoping an early pip is a good sign, I know this may sound weird but I think an early hatch is better than a late hatch. I seem to get more hatched birds and more live.

congrats!!! hope you have a terrific hatch.. And good luck with the creamettes - I guess after a few days you can always candle them and see how they are developing and find the later ones?

It was a beautiful morning, so I thought I take some pictures of my meaties to share. Like no one here has seen a meat chicken before, right?

what great pictures of your little guys! wonderful!

 

[duluthralphie]

First off... I have a JJ and Ethel baby!!

We had to do a turkey C-section, but baby is well an noisy. It was 19 hours and no movement on egg cracking. I have had trouble getting the humidity up in the hatcher, was around 40-45 most the day.

I kept adding water to the sponge but it still stayed dry. We did a full C-section and removed the entire egg from him and then had to pick the dried membrane off him. He is doing good now, walking and chirping like a banshee screams.

I have another that has started to zip and the moisture is at 61 now, just being very hard to get it up. (get your minds out of the gutter)..



MM I loved the video, you raise them right.
All these pictures are making me want some CX's.

Bert is outside tonight, but I am not sure he will make it, his foot seems "ok" but he is refusing to walk much, I will keep feed and water on opposing corners of his pen now to make him walk, if he does not walk he is a goner. I do not mean to seem cold, but I am not going to keep him around if I have to hand feed and water him and care for him like an invalid. Even though he is Bert he has a purpose in this world and if he can not do it, I will be sad but its the way it is. It makes all of your adult CX's such miracles.

 

[duluthralphie]