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All 24 turkey eggs look like developing. Two don’t look the same. Not as much veining- but not clear either. It’s too early to tell. The shipped eggs still have loose air cells; 10 clearly have veins.
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I was wondering since I had to put down the main tom last year. He was a white and this years main man is a brown. Hens are both colors.
 
I still have my run tarped for the winter. It's Husky plastic sheeting being held in place with flex tape on the corners and ends and I have huge bricks all around the bottom to hold the bottom down. It held up this way all last winter and all through this winter though occassionally I have to patch a tear here and there when it's super windy.

This morning I went out to do morning chores and 4 of the huge bricks were moved a few feet away from the run allowing the one corner to blow freely in the wind. These are almost 20 lb a piece and laying flat on the ground so I have a hard time thinking wind could have gotten under them to blow. And aside from a bear, I don't know any animal that could have lifted them (and then gave up and left without getting into the run for the chickens. It had to be a human, right?

Here it is after I fixed it. It was 3 of those flat bricks and one of the curved ones as well as the tiny broken piece that were moved so that whole corner was blowing. The flat ones are 17 lb each and the curved ones are heavier.

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I still have my run tarped for the winter. It's Husky plastic sheeting being held in place with flex tape on the corners and ends and I have huge bricks all around the bottom to hold the bottom down. It held up this way all last winter and all through this winter though occassionally I have to patch a tear here and there when it's super windy.

This morning I went out to do morning chores and 4 of the huge bricks were moved a few feet away from the run allowing the one corner to blow freely in the wind. These are almost 20 lb a piece and laying flat on the ground so I have a hard time thinking wind could have gotten under them to blow. And aside from a bear, I don't know any animal that could have lifted them (and then gave up and left without getting into the run for the chickens. It had to be a human, right?

Here it is after I fixed it. It was 3 of those flat bricks and one of the curved ones as well as the tiny broken piece that were moved so that whole corner was blowing. The flat ones are 17 lb each and the curved ones are heavier.

View attachment 3062772
I have a tarp over a flat top tractor. The south top corners have a cement block on each top corner. Those have been moved from the wind in the past.
 
I still have my run tarped for the winter. It's Husky plastic sheeting being held in place with flex tape on the corners and ends and I have huge bricks all around the bottom to hold the bottom down. It held up this way all last winter and all through this winter though occassionally I have to patch a tear here and there when it's super windy.

This morning I went out to do morning chores and 4 of the huge bricks were moved a few feet away from the run allowing the one corner to blow freely in the wind. These are almost 20 lb a piece and laying flat on the ground so I have a hard time thinking wind could have gotten under them to blow. And aside from a bear, I don't know any animal that could have lifted them (and then gave up and left without getting into the run for the chickens. It had to be a human, right?

Here it is after I fixed it. It was 3 of those flat bricks and one of the curved ones as well as the tiny broken piece that were moved so that whole corner was blowing. The flat ones are 17 lb each and the curved ones are heavier.

View attachment 3062772
Look for footprint shoeprints since the ground is soft.
 

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