NY chicken lover!!!!

[featherz]

If the frozen eggs are not cracked, I just use them as normal. If cracked, I thaw them out, scramble them and feed to the chickens. I have a special area for 'chicken eggs' - cracked/oddball/overage eggs and they all get scrambled up, shells and all.

 

[stonykill]

cracked or not, we eat them

 

[Cass]

cracked or not, we eat them

Same here.....with as few eggs as I am getting, I can't waste one cuz it cracked while I was at work. However I know it is less than 18 hours old, and has been VERY cold, so no bacteria growth...

I do like Featherz idea of scrambling up "suspect" eggs for the birds .... When I have more eggs a day I think I'll do that, cuz, quite frankly, I forgot that chickens like scrambled eggs. DOH!!!

 

[rancher hicks]

I ate a cracked egg last night around 11:00pm and I figure my coop is clean and besides i cook them so they should be sterilized.

I don't own Turkey's Lord have mercy, I don't have time. Plus I'd have to figure out who will process them.

 

[marquisella]

I raised turkeys last year without any problem. The only r eal problem with mixing them is black head, andI don't think we have it in NY.
I acutally have a year old tom that I want to sell, he is the only one left, after I realized I don't have the room for turkeys. He thinks he is a chicken. I only want $10 if anyone is interested. He is a mix of bronze & black.
Sue

Anybody raise turkeys along with their chickens? Any problems? which breed(s). I'm hungry!

 

[stonykill]

I ate a cracked egg last night around 11:00pm and I figure my coop is clean and besides i cook them so they should be sterilized.

I don't own Turkey's Lord have mercy, I don't have time. Plus I'd have to figure out who will process them.

20...ahhhh, maybe 3 years ago we raised turkeys. Long before we had chickens. 25 to 30 a year. Butchered them ourselves. It's no harder than doing a chicken, just bigger. Our smallest hens were about 12 lbs dressed, and our largest tom was 36 lbs. Boy was he a big boy!

I have read somewhere that chickens and turkeys can't be raised in the same pen. Beyond that I'm not sure of the distance required. Something about turkeys carrying a disease that kills chickens.

 

[chicken stalker]

Chickens carry a disease that is deadly to turkeys. It's called blackhead disease and yes it is here in NY. I learn that the hard way. =(

 

[lovemyzoo]

I raised a white breasted last year with my hens. I am raising more this year but I have a 2nd area for them. They will have some free ranging together but their fenced run and houses are in different areas of the yard.

 

[vmdanielsen]

I have been thinking of trying turkeys. I will have to do more research. Maybe I should just do meaties......

 

[lovemyzoo]

I have been thinking of trying turkeys. I will have to do more research. Maybe I should just do meaties......

We are doing both. But my goal is to have a flock I can grow as needed at lest for my chickens.