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GOLLY Julie, glad you made it home -- I would've been mad, too! We didn't get the rain ya'll did, altho everything is a soaking mess. I don't think I've ever seen so much lightning before.

I would say our drought is definitely over!
 
TerriLaChicks said:
GOLLY Julie, glad you made it home -- I would've been mad, too! We didn't get the rain ya'll did, altho everything is a soaking mess. I don't think I've ever seen so much lightning before.

I would say our drought is definitely over!
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I agree! So glad you made it home safely!! It was horrible here, the thunder & lightening was horrible!!
 
Chris Herzog said:
Missi,
When you set Turkey eggs in an incubator....everything is basicly the same as with chicken eggs except lock-down is at 25 days, is that correct? Or is there something else I did not see? I'm not ready to pull the trigger on turkeys eggs yet....I'm just wondering about that.
Thanks,
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Chris, from what I've read everything is basically the same. Most say lockdown on day 24 though...
 
Okay so he's got his eggs from both breeds coming!!
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Yup, my gals were not impressed with their new olympic sized swimming pool. It didn't get much above 8" deep here during the flash flood yesterday and has already dried up. Unfortunately I still can't get in or out as the highway is under.


The highway...
 
Barred Babies said:
I have! They have some beautiful birds and gret information on that site!
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Yea, no kidding!

I have something sorta strange that happened today. A few weeks ago I went and picked up 17 NH's and 10 BR's chicks that were about a week old. I gott them home and I put them in a brooder with a RIR pullet that was about 2 weeks older then them. I was worried that the RIR might hurt the other chicks so I have been keeping an eye on her. So today my wife said that she noticed the chicks getting on top of the brooder so I might want to start putting my wire over the top of it. Sure enough, I walked in there and the RIR was up on the rim. When I walked in she jumped back down. I walked out and she jumped back up on the rim. This happened about 6 times while I was working on something else and had to go in and out of the room that the chicks are in. Finally, I put the wire over the top and went about working on something in the next room over from the chicks. So after a few minutes a strange noise or churp really, gets my attention so I walk back in there and just watch for a minute. The younger chicks are pecking at the back of the RIR and every time this happens she makes a strange churp. So I grab her and look her over to find a little blood on her back-side under her tail feathers. She was jumping up on the rim to get away from the other chicks, I get that.

So anyway I remove her from that and set her up in a wire cage inside of the brooder so that she can be with the other chicks but they can not peck at her giving her wound time to heal. I find it strange that the other chicks picked her out of all the chicks (28) in that brooder to pick on. Am I missing something here? Any thoughts on this?

Thanks,
Chris
 
Chris Herzog said:
Yea, no kidding!

I have something sorta strange that happened today. A few weeks ago I went and picked up 17 NH's and 10 BR's chicks that were about a week old. I gott them home and I put them in a brooder with a RIR pullet that was about 2 weeks older then them. I was worried that the RIR might hurt the other chicks so I have been keeping an eye on her. So today my wife said that she noticed the chicks getting on top of the brooder so I might want to start putting my wire over the top of it. Sure enough, I walked in there and the RIR was up on the rim. When I walked in she jumped back down. I walked out and she jumped back up on the rim. This happened about 6 times while I was working on something else and had to go in and out of the room that the chicks are in. Finally, I put the wire over the top and went about working on something in the next room over from the chicks. So after a few minutes a strange noise or churp really, gets my attention so I walk back in there and just watch for a minute. The younger chicks are pecking at the back of the RIR and every time this happens she makes a strange churp. So I grab her and look her over to find a little blood on her back-side under her tail feathers. She was jumping up on the rim to get away from the other chicks, I get that.

So anyway I remove her from that and set her up in a wire cage inside of the brooder so that she can be with the other chicks but they can not peck at her giving her wound time to heal. I find it strange that the other chicks picked her out of all the chicks (28) in that brooder to pick on. Am I missing something here? Any thoughts on this?

Thanks,
Chris
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Even though she was the bigger one she was out numbered!!
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It's the only explanation I can think of!!
 

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