Halloween/Thanksgiving Hatch-a-Long 2019

[muddy75]

I'm getting off here. Hope everyones hatches go great! Good luck to everyone.

i’m confused!!! 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!!)

 

[mixedUPturk]

i’m confused!!! 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!!)

It wasnt here but on another thread that neither you nor i follow

 

[ShrekDawg]

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!!!

 

[ShrekDawg]

@FortCluck I am so sorry if anyone discouraged you. I think you are doing a great job.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Oh and as for Indiana, Kentucky, all that, I actually briefly thought about moving somewhere out there. was thinking like Cincinnati or over the border somewhere haha also looked at other Ohio cities, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, etc.

 

[BullChick]

BBW. You’ll have to check my coop page link to see the right weights, but I think it was 19 and 32 pounds dressed.

 

[FortCluck]

I had to go clear my head...

I opened the twin egg, I saw veins and 1 yolk so I stopped. One twin hasn't fully absorbed the yolk yet. I put on coconut oil and returned them. Everything was 100% sterile. I had sterile tweezers, sterile drape over heating pad, sterile gloves, and sterile gauze.

 

[FortCluck]

Okay, I will figure out how to get the beagle in the cabinet too. Sturgis was easy. This dog is going to be fun.

A beagle in a cabinet? My beagle would flip out unless there was food in the cabinet

 

[FortCluck]

i’m confused!!! 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!!)

Just had to clear my head. You hear people tell you to do things that are different from what I call "the pros" tell you and it's hard to know what to do. I had to realize I'm the captain of this boat and do what I think is right. Which would be to save the twins and do whatever it takes to give them a fighting chance

 

[BullChick]

A beagle in a cabinet? My beagle would flip out unless there was food in the cabinet

I actually tried, and he wasn’t happy.