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Had to share a pic of the tomatoes I picked yesterday evening--Tomande and Purple Cherokee. BLT time!!! I pulled some of them a little greener than I like but the birds are getting to them -- have to go buy some bird netting this morning to put over the plants.
 
Barred Babies said:
Lost 2 more turkeys!!
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I'm about ready to give up!!
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So sorry! Have you figured out what's causing it?
 
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RusticDreamer said:
Barred, try rosemary, mint or bay leaves (we used real, not dried) for the flies. Vanilla or the citrus fruit is good for the mosquitos  :)
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Will have to try those then. Everybody on BYC talks about how great the vanilla is for flies!! :confused:  I'm wondering if fragrance oils will work?? I have some Fresh Squeezed Oranges FO I use to make candles & sprays with. I also have some peppermint essential oil too!! Whatcha think???? I guess it would be worth a try to give it all a go huh?? I might end up planting some rosemary all around the coop!!
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I tried the vanilla air fresheners and they work. They are great!
 
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Had to share a pic of the tomatoes I picked yesterday evening--Tomande and Purple Cherokee. BLT time!!! I pulled some of them a little greener than I like but the birds are getting to them -- have to go buy some bird netting this morning to put over the plants.
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Oh yeah I already gathered a big bunch of tomatoes and a whole heap of Squashes it seems like they all hit at one time and I got my first Cuke yesterday evening and I ate it right there in the garden peeled it with my old dirty pocket knife and all. mummmm it sure was scrumt-deli-umpt-cious LOL
 
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grambysfarm said:
I wish that I could help you but I don't know anything about turkeys. How does Julie keep hers?
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I'm not sure! Maybe she'll come on and give me some idea!!
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Missi, I'm so sorry to hear that you lost more poults. That has to be frustrating. :hugs

As far as my poults, I keep them locked up until they are about 3 months old. I keep them in my enclosed pens. I think you all have seen them before. Pics are below.

A few weeks before I let them free range with the others, I allow them to free range all day on the weekends when I am home, so that I can monitor and supervise their roaming skills and how they get along with the other animals. That gives them the opportunity to walk around and find out what's what and where's everything and the chickens and turkeys teach them the "Rules Of The Yard". They get a chance to interact with the other animals. Upon nightfall, they are herded back into their stalls. I do this a few weekends in a row before giving them 100% full access to the yard. When I let them out for the last time from being confined, they have already learned what they need to learn to survive. So, in the event of bad weather, they already know to go into a coop or the chicken stall. Their learned behavior kicks in and they put themselves up.

As far as me and only me (others have different opinions and do different things), any age less than 3 months for a poult is too young to allow them to roam on their own and expose them to inclement weather. Their bodies aren't ready for it and they stand the possibility of getting wet and dieing. In all of the years that I have raised turkeys, I have not lost any poults to rain or inclement weather by following the same steps that I do every year.

I'm not sure how old your poults are but they may still be too young to have "roaming privileges". They may have to be confined somewhere that is covered until their bodies continue to grow more. A lot of people on the turkey thread have lost mostly all if not all of their poults because they allowed them to roam to soon and they were exposed to bad weather (rain). The poults simply don't know that they should get out of the rain, so they stay and get rained on and die. It's sad but it's true.

I don't know what your set up is and where you have them but you may want to try confining them until they are a bit older. One of the turkey breeders on the turkey thread does not allow his poults to touch ground until they are at least 3 months old. They are off of the ground. Their feet (yes, I said feed) DO NOT have any relationship with dirt. That is how I started mine off as well and I have never had a problem losing any poults. The poults that I have now are in my chicken stalls and they are on sand. They are too young for me to let them out. It will still be a few more weeks before they graduate to their weekend pass. All they can do now is look out at the other animals and hope and wish for the day they can be FREE. Until then, they are on lock down. I hope that this helps Missi. I was hoping that you didn't have to go through this with poults but when you said that you were getting turkey eggs, I just cringed in fear of the outcome. :oops: Because I know from experience how difficult poults are to raise (they are my "problem children") I have to spend more time in making sure they can survive. :/

How many do you have left? How old are your poults?

I hope the rest survive.

Pics of where the poults live until they are old enough to have full access to the chicken yard.





 
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