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[Sally Sunshine]

Speaking of turkeys, what's the best yard turkey for eating? Hubs will let me hatch eggs I'm sure!

now your stinkin!!!

walnut can help you with this one

 

[lazyacre]

are you serious!!! ha ha ha!!! you should find a sale.... or at least chicken

Yes I am serious. I'm just tired. I've had some health problems. And still working full time. I just want to sleep Thursday and Friday. I have ground turkey. Maybe I should make tacos. I need an easy and simple Thanksgiving. Anyone have any ideas for simple and easy?

 

[napdognewfie]

What? I haven't even bought a turkey.  I am so not ready.  Thinking about doing a non turkey Thanksgiving this year.

Mine is still solid according to DH. I will let in soak in a hot tub (aka kitchen sink) all day while I make pies. 24+ lbs. Butterball. Homegrown heritage next year.

I have friends who don't eat meat. They have tofurkey. I have not tried it. The first year (of many) she made it, she called and asked my opinion. It is this little meatloaf size thing and said it serves 12 to something. I said that was because everyone only needed a tiny bit....oh no, that's plenty for me. Lol

 

[WalnutHill]

HOW many people have turkeys that aren't thawed through? mine is still freezing!!!

HOW much does your turkey weigh?

WHAT MAKE MODEL AND BREED IS YOUR TURKEY?

Mine were never frozen, they were harvested Friday.

3 Bourbon Red hens, 8 pounds each. Two will be traditionally oven roasted, and one roasted in a wood fired oven.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Yes I am serious. I'm just tired. I've had some health problems. And still working full time. I just want to sleep Thursday and Friday. I have ground turkey. Maybe I should make tacos. I need an easy and simple Thanksgiving. Anyone have any ideas for simple and easy?

yes, meet me and go for drinks and skip it completely?

 

[napdognewfie]

Yes I am serious. I'm just tired. I've had some health problems. And still working full time. I just want to sleep Thursday and Friday.  I have ground turkey.  Maybe I should make tacos.  I need an easy and simple Thanksgiving. Anyone have any ideas for simple and easy?

Rotisserie chicken from Walmart. Already cooked mashed potatoes in a tub and canned vegs. Stove top stuffing. Sara Lee for dessert.

Go buy it all today and reheat tomorrow.

Spend all the time saved in the kitchen by sleeping.

I had one Christmas that I only got a couple pictures of. Then I went to bed for the rest of the day with a bucket beside the bed. Good times. Lol

 

[karenerwin]

karenerwin

awwwww the will to live! @karenerwin as long as it takes! therapy is just like us.... some takes longer than others.... amazing job with them!!!

what humidity did you run at for lockdown? do you think it should have ran at 70-75? that your air cells lost a tad much? or were they bigger chicks and too much humidty during incu? or you think opening closing bator had something to do at the end?

I tried to keep humidity around 70%, sometimes when I got back home from work, it had dropped to 60% & had to be raised. I didn't open the incubator during lockdown except when I took the 5 chicks out ( 1 had been in there for 48 hours the others 24 hours) ( 1 was drinking the condensation off the bator window ). But because I had put some in a day (or it might have been 2 days ) after the originals possibly opening the bator to quickly grab out the chicks might have messed things up. I didn't think my air cells look exceptionally low and the chicks seem to be average in size, a couple of them I would even say are on the smallish side ( the white one and the all black one that was last to hatch).
It is odd to me that only 2 of the green eggs actually hatched because those looked really good going into lockdown ( I couldn't really see well into the blue eggs & all but 1 of them hatched;and the brown egg that looked good didn't do anything either). I haven't done eggtopsies yet, but plan to do them today to see what was up.

oh, another thing that is probably important, I kept smelling a funky smell during most of the incubation ( last have of it anyway), but when I candled none of the eggs smelled like they had gone bad... I am making sure to extra clean the bator incase it just wasn't cleaned well enough after the last use. I use bleach water to clean it, but...

 

[WalnutHill]

Speaking of turkeys, what's the best yard turkey for eating? Hubs will let me hatch eggs I'm sure!

All depends on a few things:

How much yard?
Is it fenced?
Would you have much trouble with predators (fox, raccoon, coyote, hawk, eagle) if you left them outside?
Do you want birds that lay, hatch, and brood every year, or that you just get new ones every spring?
How big a bird do you want for eating?

If you want sustainable heritage turkeys, pretty much any are good tasting, but many run pretty small. Forget Royal Palms on the table, they yield very little meat and easily fly out of any enclosure. At the other extreme are the Broad Breasted poults, you just buy them at the feed store in late spring, get them started indoors, let them wander the yard for the summer then harvest when they reach the size you want in 4-5 months.

If I had to pick one variety it would be Narragansetts. Either the regular or Golden color. They are lovely birds to look at, are relatively docile, and taste great. They're not overly big, they typically grow to 10 pounds for a hen/14 pounds for a tom in 6 1/2 months. Great egg layers, I can't comment on broodiness as I take the eggs from mine.

 

[Bejammie]

All depends on a few things:

How much yard?
Is it fenced?
Would you have much trouble with predators (fox, raccoon, coyote, hawk, eagle) if you left them outside?
Do you want birds that lay, hatch, and brood every year, or that you just get new ones every spring?
How big a bird do you want for eating?

If you want sustainable heritage turkeys, pretty much any are good tasting, but many run pretty small.  Forget Royal Palms on the table, they yield very little meat and easily fly out of any enclosure.  At the other extreme are the Broad Breasted poults, you just buy them at the feed store in late spring, get them started indoors, let them wander the yard for the summer then harvest when they reach the size you want in 4-5 months.

If I had to pick one variety it would be Narragansetts.  Either the regular or Golden color.  They are lovely birds to look at, are relatively docile, and taste great.  They're not overly big, they typically grow to 10 pounds for a hen/14 pounds for a tom in 6 1/2 months.  Great egg layers, I can't comment on broodiness as I take the eggs from mine.

Thank you, good info! I'd want to hatch eggs or even let a hen go broody each year...

I have about 8 acres but unfenced in Bob cat coyote fox dog cat snake werewolf country. Lol jk on the werewolf but dang we have every other predator like crazy.

Id like them to go up in a coop at night and in the yard in the day, heck probably build them a run like the chickens...

 

[Bejammie]

Hey guys how do build my chicks resistance to coccidia??? Safely?