How many turkeys do we have?

[chickenannie]

Quote:
Ivan, for some reason I thought you had LOTS of turkeys!! Are you down to 3? You give such good turkey advice...

 

[bigchickenman]

336+1 BB White+2 standard bronze=339

 

[boxermom]

339+6=345

 

[ivan3]

Chickenannie wrote: Ivan, for some reason I thought you had LOTS of turkeys!!

We started off with 3BBB's (and had to buy chooks to get the turks). Initially started off as a project for our oldest grandson but we brooded the little bunch together in one of the bathrooms and (as well as the next 6 heritage poults) so we got to observe (and listen to...) these guys up close, a lot.

Cass found EZBYC when the BBB's developed spraddle leg at approx. 3wk. of age (looking for ideas). We managed to keep one alive and `moving' for four months.

Cass, in particular, enjoys the turks (she was a farm girl who was in charge of the hundred or so `spring chickens' her family would raise every year, from the age of ten until she left for college she fed/watered and butchered - her ma processed them from there). That such an `adept' would want to keep any poultry alive any longer than where the feed cost to wt. ratio lines crossed impressed me.

Of our six heritage: Our Royal hen was mortally wounded by a raccoon on a daytime schedule. She had two nests - one in the protected area with the Slate hen. Another, about twenty yds out in the woods (would go there and lay, then she'd be back on the shared nest when we'd lock them up).
Our big Slate tom died suddenly (out following Cass around in the early afternoon - dead by midnight - e.coli in the lungs - insisted on sleeping outside during a three day stretch when we received over seven inches of rain - no doubt, inhaled).
The third died in my hands when only three days old.
Both Slate toms have/had poor eyesight (genetic) and became apparent when we would try to feed them peaches (think: the cartoon of the kid with open mouth and ice cream cone stuck to forehead). They would try to fly near all these trees and strike a wing and go into flat spins like a fighter struck by an 88).
The Royal tom developed what we thought was an abscess on the lower beak (turned out to be a chondrosarcoma) that was removed (there's a thread about that somewhere with pictures of the surgery - vet is very accommodating).
Our `closest' neighbors also have turkeys (they're casual about their security so they go through different varieties just a little more rapidly than the preds do).

When I'm here, I observe everything closely. It is hard enough to determine that what I am looking at is what I am actually seeing (given that `everything' is run through the `wetware' on a time delay before `I' get a grip on ``it', and my wetware's wiring is fraying - old and in the way), so I always check against whatever literature I can get my hands on (suspect as well) and only then make approximations.

In a perfect world, some `unusual' turkey behavior would occur repeatedly, I'd submit a proposal, get the funding and purchase 10,000 poults and proceed to improve my focus.

As it is, I've learned to duck (hard to ignore

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ed: our count won't go even lower just before thanksgiving...​

 

[signal chicken]

345 + 16 = 361

All 16 are Bronze

 

[SunAngel]

361+1=362

1 Wild Eastern

 

[bee_wrangler]

362+7= 369

7 Royal Palms

 

[cwhollars]

369+6=375

Red Bourbon

 

[card5640]

375+2= 377
2 whites 1 hen 1 tom

 

[Schultz]

We have 2 until the 15th on November. Does that count?
1 Bronze and 1 Bronze mix.
377+2=379