Maine

[hoppy]

I have 2 hertiage turkeys for sale spring hatch. one hen bourbon red and 1 jake royal palm cross?? could be auburn cross but I think it's a mix, either way, still good eating or breeding. I am trying not to bring these to the swap this weekend as I have no box large enough to send them home in. my plan was to eat them this fall but I will have way too much turkey with all I raised

 

[superchemicalgirl]

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Rumford has a paper mill. It stinks. Really!

Maine has few jobs except for the coast where tourism reigns.

Also, Mainers do not like people from "away". I've lived in Maine for 8 years now after moving here from southern New Hampshire and I'm still considered an outsider. Try northern New Hampshire where the natives are friendlier.

if you can do the maine accent your better accepted. I get so many out of staters tell me about my maine accent (what I have an maine accent???) I'm not from maine so I just laugh.

In some areas it doesn't matter much, the more "urban" areas like Portland, Lewiston/Auburn, Augusta/Waterville. Once you go further out rural, yes, you'll never be accepted. I was once told "a cat can have kittens in the oven, but they'll never be muffins" when I asked if any kids that I might have would be Mainers.

Doesn't really bother me in the least. If you aren't going to like me for where I come from, you can just bugger off.

 

[Widget]

I think us natives are just very protective of our way of life. Personally I don't really care where people are from as long as they don't try to change the way I do things. What they do in their own families is fine but don't tell me I'm wrong. I also think that much of the perceived attitude is that so many natives are being pushed out of areas where their families have lived for generations. Think fisherman no longer being able to afford to live near the water since they can't afford the taxes. Or family cottages/camps having to be sold off because of taxes. Whether true or not the perception is that the ones who can afford all these properties are from away.
Now with that said I really don't believe that all of us Mainahs are that bad. It just takes a long while for us to warm up to newcomers. Most natives I know tend to be very private and don't want there business known to the world. Yet if you need help we will be right there in a heartbeat.
Of course the other theory is that we just pretend to be ornery and standoffish so those from away will decide to live elsewhere, say New Hampshire, ensuring that we have plenty of unoccupied land to enjoy for ourselves. In reality we are really friendly folk. And where else can you make a meal of lobsters and steamers with a whoopie pie for dessert and a Moxie to wash it all down.

 

[Coldweatherbirds]

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Wow, I love them! I wish I had a place for them. Why didn't I build a larger double sided coop so I could have turkeys too? So pretty. I want to breed them and incubate their eggs and have a whole flock of beautiful gobblers!!!

 

[hudsonnascarfan]

heck i live in hudson my dad lives in kenduskeag the next small town over from here and they say we are from away lol even though its the same school district i just tell them if they dont like it then buy my house and ill be happy to move to kenduskeag i dont really care what the other people think we try to stay to our selves but we do have family and alot of friends in the areai just dont know whats going to be said about us next spring when we get the piglets in the pig pen im building lol but we are only getting 3 or 4

 

[RHB]

I'm from away...and am doing just fine here. The only time I hear "away" type comments, it's more of a tease, like when someone would say, what would you expect a redhead to say.

 

[hoppy]

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Wow, I love them! I wish I had a place for them. Why didn't I build a larger double sided coop so I could have turkeys too? So pretty. I want to breed them and incubate their eggs and have a whole flock of beautiful gobblers!!!

my other pair live in a chain link dog kennel. they are for thanksgiving and christmas although I could be convinced to sell the christmas one once the other 2 are gone (a black slate hen)

 

[hudsonnascarfan]

id really love to get some turkeys but right now if i did my wife would serve me for thanksgiving dinner but im hopeing that next spring i can get some to raise by then i should have the money for another coop

 

[Coldweatherbirds]

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Wow, I love them! I wish I had a place for them. Why didn't I build a larger double sided coop so I could have turkeys too? So pretty. I want to breed them and incubate their eggs and have a whole flock of beautiful gobblers!!!

my other pair live in a chain link dog kennel. they are for thanksgiving and christmas although I could be convinced to sell the christmas one once the other 2 are gone (a black slate hen)

Has anyone ever succeeded in cohorting chickens and turkeys? LoL. (Seriously though, I think they have diseases that they can give each other or something?)

 

[hoppy]

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my other pair live in a chain link dog kennel. they are for thanksgiving and christmas although I could be convinced to sell the christmas one once the other 2 are gone (a black slate hen)

Has anyone ever succeeded in cohorting chickens and turkeys? LoL. (Seriously though, I think they have diseases that they can give each other or something?)

actually turkeys can get black head from chickens and chickens get "vaccinated" (if you will) for mereks from turkeys. the chickens will survive and do well but the turkeys don't do so well.