***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Beautiful roo Dan. I love the color variations of color in that breed. Its one of their best qualities.

Wow Matt you sure did get hit hard! Hope clean up goes and safe and it melts fast.

Nana that's a lot of rain, and mud! lolIf the winter ponds wren t full they should be now.

 

[SharkmanDan]

I think so too. He's the most beautiful cockerel, I think I've ever seen. And, that's going some.

Now, for my surprise of the day.
I went to the coop, to lock up the birds after dark, tonight. I'd already collected more eggs, TODAY, than I had in the past week. With a bunch of birds in there, plenty of eggs is not uncommon, but for the past two months, with the daylight waning, an egg or two a day, and none, some days, was pretty normal. I had already collected 8, today, when it was time to lock them down. I start checking the 22 nest boxes, when I find another egg, under a pullet, that I thought was 4-5 weeks from laying. I reached in, under her, and got a handful of egg. A TURKEY EGG!!! My first since June. To get a turkey egg, in November (sure, it's the last day of the month, but, NOVEMBER, still) is surprising, to say the least. I had just gotten the Hovabator Genesis out, today, expecting to try my first run of eggs, in it, in a few days. Now, I need to break out the second Hovabator, and prepare for some turkey eggs.
I've been seeing the tom, doing his tom duties (copulation), every few days, for a couple of weeks now. Now, I need to get the breeding saddles, on the hens.
It might be fun, if I could hatch out some turkeys, in December!!!

 

[SharkmanDan]

Doggonnit!!! I guess turning on the lights, really helped a bunch. I got a second turkey egg, along with 8 chicken eggs, so far this morning.
I haven't run the Hovabator Genesis, with a clutch of eggs, yet. They recommend starting with a small batch. But, since I don't have the birds separated by breed, because I wasn't expecting to incubate, just yet, these are going to be barnyard mix. So, I might as well fill it up.
Has anyone had any luck, good or bad, mixing eggs of different species, in the same table top incubator? Or, would I be best off keeping the turkey eggs, in a separate incubator?

 

[Poco Pollo]

Doggonnit!!! I guess turning on the lights, really helped a bunch. I got a second turkey egg, along with 8 chicken eggs, so far this morning.
I haven't run the Hovabator Genesis, with a clutch of eggs, yet. They recommend starting with a small batch. But, since I don't have the birds separated by breed, because I wasn't expecting to incubate, just yet, these are going to be barnyard mix. So, I might as well fill it up.
Has anyone had any luck, good or bad, mixing eggs of different species, in the same table top incubator? Or, would I be best off keeping the turkey eggs, in a separate incubator?

Congrats on the turkey eggs! I have set quail and chicken eggs at the same time. I don't have any experience with turkey eggs. Maybe there is a turkey thread on BYC that can help.

I have my Hovabator Genesis in the garage. It keeps a steady temperature, but I have to add water nearly every day. The humidity is nearly impossible to control in the garage.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I have run guinea eggs with chicken eggs and they did fine. However, duck eggs with chicken eggs was a disaster for the ducks, both times I tried it. They need more humidity. Never tried turkey eggs- might google and see what their ideal settings are and see if they are close enough to chicken eggs or not.

 

[jrjoplin]

Tree cleanup continues. My priority has been the driveway and limbs that might fall on vehicles or walkways. I met the mailman at the end of the drive yesterday as with my luck lately I'd be buying a new mail truck. I've now moved on to trees that had more damage. Here are pictures of my most drastic transformation from one angle it looks fine but from the front it's another story.





* I had hoped to have started coop construction by now but something always seems to happen to push it back. My main coop & run will be in the area between this tree and the RV. The RV will be (hopefully) finding a new parking place in front of the fence.

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Wow that's terrible with that tree! It will probably be dangerous now about the other half falling . Especially if the wind catches it.
SHARKMAN I DIDN'T KNOW TURKEYS WEVER STARTED LAYING IN THE WINTER THIS EARLY! yOU MUST BE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT. gOOD LUCK HATCHING. wHAT BREED OF TURKEY ARE THEY?

 

[jrjoplin]

Wow that's terrible with that tree! It will probably be dangerous now about the other half falling . Especially if the wind catches it.

It seems rooted well enough for wind but I'll most likely take it down if we have another ice storm on the way. Our hope is that over a few years it will fill out again.

 

[Matt in Okla]

I definitely learned to pull my coop out to the open areas in case of winter storm. The trees woulda been a killer. The plastic on the bottom makes a tunnel underneath which they seem to love.
I guess I could build them a log cabin outta the stuff I bucked and piled from some of my downed trees lol

 

[allenw]

Looks like you've had a lot to clean up. We were fortunate enough that most of our trees had dropped their leaves before this ice storm or it would have been much worse here.

I'm back up to five ducks after it cleared off. Stupid things will take off and fly because they don't like walking on the ice and then they land further away then when they started. I still think some thing got the missing one out of the yard, never ending supply of varmints here coming of the river and the hired guns were sleeping on the porch waiting on their dish of dog food.