New Englanders! Much ado about New England!

[Reinbeau]

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Howdy, neighbor!

 

[spook]

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Welcome to the insanity~! Wahaaa haaa haaaa!

BTW- I am asking a man I know what it would entail to make those chicken stickers or chicken foot prints. Wouldn't that be cool?!
I'll keep you all posted, he has done this on the side for years and enjoys it. So, I like to keep local when I can, it would be a great boost if others were interested.


I am NOT intending to duplicate or take any business from BYC- I love those sticker!

 

[the simple life]

Hey Bill, Good to see you here, I remember you from the easy garden site and you were one of the first people to introduce yourself, actually might have been the first.
So are you getting your chickens this spring? I think that was the plan if I remember correctly.

By the way everyone, if you can get to the Poultry Congress at the Big E in Springfield Mass. they had some incredibly beautiful birds.
Tomorrow is the last day.
I got 2 gorgeous blue laced red wyandottes today. I have been looking for a high quality pair or even just the hens for a long time and I found a pair today.
The mother of the hen actually was being shown and she won for her breed so I am very excited about the quality.
So if you can get there you should check it out, but dress warm its a little nippy in there.

 

[Baymen Moe]

Hey Natalie, yes that's me from Easy Garden and I do plan on getting some birds this spring. I think I'll be ordering from Meyer for a May delivery. I want enough time to do everything right.

Bill

 

[spook]

As a bring it up again question, does anyone in the New England area have Turkey eggs? I would like a dozen or so fertilized eggs to hatch out, the turkeys need to have been raised around poultry.
Someone somewhere must have a pair of turkeys

 

[the simple life]

Kelly, I was thinking of you when I posted about that show today. The women there were selling a turkey but it was a real nice one, meaning expensive. But I wonder if they have poults for sale or even if they would hook you up with some eggs.
I'll find their business card and send you their contact info.

The other thing is there is a woman on here that sells turkey eggs or at least she has and her name is Bargain. Contact her and see what she has.

 

[spook]

Thank you so much! I was talking with a man that is a tester for birds diseases, in which we all probably have, but when raising broilers, they do not get old enough to be affected, yet raising turkeys they get old enough to have Sinusitis from the MG disease. So it was recommended to only get birds from parents that have been exposed to poultry. I don't know if I'd like to house a Tom and hen for a winter, not only that but we have the wild ones that take over in fall and winter- they are cool and the chickens think they are just handsome! lol, its not pretty! hee hee
Thanks a lot for thinking of me, I really would like to keep the business in the "New England" area, it helps to keep us all going.
Then I sit and think....am I that stupid? LOL, Yep, I am.

 

[the simple life]

I hear ya, although I would think all of these were exposed to the poultry. I bought chickens from her today and she had the turkeys there too. I know bargain sells chicken eggs as well as I bought some from her.
I know that turkeys can get what they call black face from living with the chickens. I wonder if thats what he referring to as well.

 

[spook]

That is interesting, guess I need to look that one up. I was told that MS/MG are common place, it can affect the turkeys at 16 weeks. Guess I wont keep a pair, all I have room for is in with the hens.
Also there was a hen for sale in Uncle Henrys but no Tom- we got to laughing about tethering her out to a garden stake by her leg, wait for a wild Tom to tend to business...and tadah, we have fertilized eggs. Just kidding tho, but who knows !!

 

[the simple life]

Aw now if I had known you were looking for some turkeys I would have grabbed ya some off my front lawn a few weeks back .

2 days before Thanksgiving 11 turkeys, all hens showed up on my front lawn.
My husband opened the kitchen door to go out to the car and he was shocked to see 11 turkeys in my walkway and on the lawn.
I grabbed the camera and took some pictures.
I threw them some cracked corn and they came right up within a few inches of where I was.
I knew that some wild turkeys lived a few blocks down in some conservation land but I have only seen one or two at a time and very infrequently.
One thing I was surprised at is how quickly they can fly to a rooftop, which they did.
They wandered around, jumped over the fence and went into the backyard and then to my neighbors.
They were surprisingly graceful.
It was a pretty cool thing to stumble on.