I need to keep this in mind! I would love turkeys! I'm getting white broad breasted turkeys in the spring so I can have home raised Thanksgiving turkey. A lot cheaper than buying $75 turkey at the store and a lot more fun!
You should get it!! It’s awesome!! I don’t know if it’s 100% you will get turkeys, you might or might not, it’s basically just like all the leftover chicks at the end of the hatches. When they’re cleaning the trays out after/between hatches and find some stragglers, late hatchers, whatever, and they try to find them homes instead of just killing them or whatever which I think is really cool.
You’re basically adopted baby birdies.
They could be a little bit older or maybe a different species or whatever.
I think it used to include ducks or just about any species but now it just says any chicken chicks, bantams, or broad breasted turkeys. So I guess it is mostly chickens and turkeys now so you’ll probably get turkeys I guess.
It’s awesome though. Great way to get variety and help/adopt birdies at the same time!! LOL
Cause they also have a lot of other assortments with plenty of variety but they plan those/purposely hatch them, you’re not adopting.
Meyer also has this cool thing called the Meyer Meal Maker where you can add an extra chick to your order for free with the idea that you can donate the eggs or meat to somebody. And they usually try to match up similar type of birds and breeds to what you have. So like if you get layers, they won’t randomly give you a meat bird and vice versa.
I didn’t add one with my April order just cause I didn’t have the room but I did with my first chicks and it ended up being a third Buff Orpington (I had ordered two of each breed) AND female.
I thought that was cool they not only gave me an extra of a breed I ordered but that it was also female.
Often free chicks and packing peanuts are just males but not this one.
i do bbs for thanksgiving.....i got a little later start this year as they didn’t have them in until labor day but last year i got my white August 10th and he was almost too big for the pot at 18.5 lbs Thanksgiving.....
Wow that is huge!!!
I hope you mean that you are just taking a break and will be back with updates soon!!! so sorry if anyone discouraged you.....I think you have done a splendid job with your hatch so far!!! (and as mentioned, you have made it much further with twins than most!!)
was thinking like Cincinnati or over the border somewhere haha also looked at other Ohio cities, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, etc.
Sturgis was easy.
This dog is going to be fun.
I actually tried, and he wasn’t happy.
