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[Molpet]

 

[BReeder!]

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Yep! I was there again today to stock up on feed before Wednesday's nasty cold comes through. They don't even have an alternative product..

 

[Faraday40]

Poor Cupcake came back inside. The hen was on the roost, so I gave her a thorough look over. Her side re-opened, and then she took a dustbath & packed it with sand. Ick! I used a syringe to squirt soapy water at the cut to clean it. Then disinfected & applied antibiotic. It looks OK now, but she'll get to miss out on the frigid weather. I was really hoping to cut down on the number of house chickens.

 

[BReeder!]

@Faraday40 I double checked the turkey eggs. None of them were developing - all clears. To triple check I cracked each before tossing them, and none of them had any development at all.


I want turkeys!

I thought about ordering some turkey chicks through Farm and Fleet for Chick Days. They want $7.99 for Whites and $10.99 for Bronzes though... Seems a bit high to me. Only paid $3 each for our first 5 chickens as hatchlings.

Anybody out there near Chicagoland willing to part with some turkey eggs? Willing to incubate several and give some back to you even. Incubator could hold up to 34 eggs. Also willing to just take a few and test the fertility for you. I live in Plainfield, but work in the city and have to be up North in Lincolnshire during the second week of February for three days as well as this Friday - I can meet in just about any part of the metro area.

 

[Molpet]

@Faraday40 I double checked the turkey eggs. None of them were developing - all clears. To triple check I cracked each before tossing them, and none of them had any development at all.


I want turkeys!

I thought about ordering some turkey chicks through Farm and Fleet for Chick Days. They want $7.99 for Whites and $10.99 for Bronzes though... Seems a bit high to me. Only paid $3 each for our first 5 chickens as hatchlings.

Anybody out there near Chicagoland willing to part with some turkey eggs? Willing to incubate several and give some back to you even. Incubator could hold up to 34 eggs. Also willing to just take a few and test the fertility for you. I live in Plainfield, but work in the city and have to be up North in Lincolnshire during the second week of February for three days as well as this Friday - I can meet in just about any part of the metro area.

Those are meat turkey at fandf
I will not have eggs until spring
Even though my Turkeys are same age or older than Faraday's... they are not laying...and sisters to boot

 

[BReeder!]

Those are meat turkey at fandf
I will not have eggs until spring
Even though my Turkeys are same age or older than Faraday's... they are not laying...and sisters to boot

If I trap the groundhog, you think I could make Spring come early?

 

[cavemanrich]

I double checked the turkey eggs. None of them were developing - all clears. To triple check I cracked each before tossing them, and none of them had any development at all.

I may have been right thinking that those eggs were not fertile.

 

[cavemanrich]

They bite,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,???

 

[Faraday40]

@Faraday40 I double checked the turkey eggs. None of them were developing - all clears. To triple check I cracked each before tossing them, and none of them had any development at all.


I want turkeys!

I thought about ordering some turkey chicks through Farm and Fleet for Chick Days. They want $7.99 for Whites and $10.99 for Bronzes though... Seems a bit high to me. Only paid $3 each for our first 5 chickens as hatchlings.

Anybody out there near Chicagoland willing to part with some turkey eggs? Willing to incubate several and give some back to you even. Incubator could hold up to 34 eggs. Also willing to just take a few and test the fertility for you. I live in Plainfield, but work in the city and have to be up North in Lincolnshire during the second week of February for three days as well as this Friday - I can meet in just about any part of the metro area.

So sorry. Well at least we had a nice visit.

I'd skip the Farm&Fleet BB turkeys. The price is OK (higher cost b/c turkeys are big, eat a lot, & do not lay as many eggs), but those are not meant to live long lives. I have no idea why mine are laying now. They're very confused birds & keep submitting to me to be mated. They were raised as chickens, so perhaps that has something to do with their odd behaviors and early laying.

 

[Faraday40]

I may have been right thinking that those eggs were not fertile.

Who knows.... maybe they were fertilized by a rooster. That would explain no development. Those turkey hens squat like crazy!