Mahonri's 3rd Annual, BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[rarely bored]

Now they're really going to be talking about it. Stockton is talking about declaring bankruptcy. It is actually a fairly large city, scary economy.

And then with the poultry farm in Turlock.... Running out of money and leaving 50,000 hens to starve to death!

Deb

Saw the bankruptcy thingy... My in-laws live there and my MIL has been complaining about the City's gifting of money to business for years. Guess they should of listened to her.

You would think common sense would say, 293,000 people shouldn't carry a debt load of 703 million, but what does common sense have to do with anything these days? Very frustrating!

I didn't see the Turlock story!

How Horrid!

 

[Mahonri]

I have GOT to get out of bed and clean some coops.. .I got up and made waffles for DD for her birthday breakfast... now I want to sleep

 

[AK Michelle]

Question for all you turkey owners out there. I have been waiting and waiting for my hen to start laying (I kept a pair from last year's Easter hatch so they are not quite a year old) The hen has been ignoring all of the tom's advances until yesterday when she finally let him breed her. Does this mean that I should be getting eggs out of her soon? I keep hoping that I will have some for this hatch.

Not really. Turkeys lay eggs seasonally: spring through fall. My turkey hens were laying for a while before they let the tom breed them. Yours may be ready to lay, but it is still too cold outside.

Laree, you know I love you,but I have freak turkeys (and some artificial motivation). 3 of my turkeys started laying in December (or maybe November, I should have written it down.) I have a midget white who gives me about an egg a week, a royal palm who lays daily, and of the 5 blue slate hens in the pen with the Tom I get 1 or 2 eggs a day. They are in a heated environment, usually about 60*, and they have added "daylight" and, as I've said before (insert broken record sound effect) they get cayenne pepper in their feed. I have yet to try this on a bird near laying age and it NOT work. It works every time. I don't put in every time I fill the feeder (I forget sometimes) but I usually manage to remember every second or third bag. But it's easy, inexpensive and worth a shot. I'm spoiled and have a super-deluxe barn, but it's Alaska and hauling water in the cold sucks. The barn was kept at a much lower temp, between 45 - 50*, for most of the winter, I only turned it up when I fired up the incubator. Of the 5 turkey eggs I set, 4 hatched.

 

[crazyeggs]

We got around 3 1/2" of heavy wet snow. The chickens don't seem to mind it. I am just happy we did not get the 6-10" predicted!

 

[ChestnutRidge]

I thought you guys might like to see this. It's from this article, but I'm not sure where you can see the whole article. I am poking around on my university's online database.


ETA: The outside of the shell is on the bottom, and that netting-type stuff is the inside membrane.

 

[AK Michelle]

I WISH. The DH doesn't mind processing them, but he wont do it unless he has 2 helpers. We've got one person who wants to learn, but we need #2...
Volunteers?

Beam me down Scottie! I'd love to learn how to process.

 

[NotAFarm]

I thought you guys might like to see this. It's from this article, but I'm not sure where you can see the whole article. I am poking around on my university's online database.


ETA: The outside of the shell is on the bottom, and that netting-type stuff is the inside membrane.

These types of photos are so interesting.....never would have guessed eggshell!! And...all those intricate layers created in 25 hours!

 

[AK Michelle]

I thought you guys might like to see this. It's from this article, but I'm not sure where you can see the whole article. I am poking around on my university's online database.


ETA: The outside of the shell is on the bottom, and that netting-type stuff is the inside membrane.

COOL!!!

 

[ChestnutRidge]

One more that might be of interest...

 

[Farmerboy16]

One more that might be of interest...

How cool is that!