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[poultryand bees]

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Currently, I have 5 adult Narragansett turkeys, 3 teenager Narragansetts and ????? poults. The poults are confined to a flight pen for their own safety, until they get as large as an adult bantam chicken. All of the adults and teenagers free range. Several of the adult hens are sitting on nests, so we will hopefully have more poults in the next few weeks. I haven't disturbed them to see if they have all turkey eggs or a mixture of turkey and guinea and duck eggs.

It should be illegal to brag about having turkeys.

Fortunately, if you can keep them from drowning before they are about 8 weeks old, they are pretty hardy. They tend to pile on each other when it rains and the ones on the bottom of the pile become an imprint in the mud

Henny - do you need some to round out your flock?

 

[Greybear23]

Hi all, just catching up, as for my kids they are 13 and 4, hope all got some rain today, we got a little here, the garden needed it, the grass has taken over the garden, the pigs in the Pig Tractor are liking that though!!! Have a great day all, Lynn

 

[nnbreeder]

Years ago grandpa had a grocery sack full of rattlers from snakes that he had dispatched. He lived SW of Dover on the Cimmaron river. After the spring floods there were always new snakes to take the place of the ones killed earlier but now they are very rarely seen in the area.

 

[Poco Pollo]

No rain for Haskell yet. We had beautiful clouds, and an amazing sunset, but not a single drop of rain.

Students begin August 12th in Muskogee. Teachers have been in and out for a week or so. I'm trying to solve an impossible puzzle: I'll be teaching drama as well as English this year, so I need floor space for students to do short skits, improvisation, etc., but there just isn't room. Maybe I'll have to incorporate chair moving into the curriculum as a warm-up exercise.

 

[Chickenz1]

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LOL... I ran once too when I was in my shed one day looking for something on the workbench, and looked up to the shelf in front of me that was on eye level and saw a huge snake draped up there looking at me..I practically jumped the whole way to get out the door. I went back though with an empty feed sack and something to pick her up with..She was like a 4 ft long Blacksnake..
I totally respect snakes, I really do.. And I admit, I love the critters, though don't care to socialize with the toxic ones..

 

[artsyrobin]

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here is a link to the one i use on my laptop- doesn't use alot of memory-

http://www.free-av.com/en/download/1/avira_antivir_personal__free_antivirus.html

 

[RonnieAtkeson]

I just saw a pair of peacocks of for sale in Muskogee. 150$ A piece though, is that about right

Or 250$ for the pair, the luck some have had with hatching eggs and chicks dieing this may be the way to go.
http://tulsa.craigslist.org/grd/1304575071.html pair of peacocks

 

[Buster52]

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Does it have Vista? If so, it is probably that. I hate Vista. I got so tired of how slow it was I wiped my hard drive and loaded XP. Seems like it is rocket propelled now, by comparison.

 

[Slightly Cracked]

Quenston, we should hatch Tuesday the 18th through Friday the 21st. I won't want to get rid of the little buggers until Frday or Saturday, that will give everyone time to oogle over them.

Al, I did something foolish and scheduled myself to work the next two midnight shifts!!

The hatcher is at John's farm and he will plug it in in the morning and let it run all day. He has put good calibrated thermometers in it and he said he would check on it through out the day for me. After I get past this weekend and see how it run's I will give you a call.
Thanks for the help.

Spent the evening out at football practice and I am whipped and I didn't do a thing!! So good night all and I will chat with who ever is up late tomorrow!!

Neecy

 

[poultryand bees]

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$250 for the pair seems a little steep, unless they are at least 3 years old. The older they are, the longer the train of eye feathers on teh peacock, since their feathers come in longer each year. It looks like that peacock is either about a year old or has molted his eye feathers. Peacocks can live to be 20 years of age, unless they get stupid and fly to the top of a tree on a night when there is sleet and get tangled in branches when the limbs collapse from the sleet and the weight of the bird. Upside down, they tend to freeze to death.

I got my peacocks at the Prague exotic animal auction in 2006. I paid $75 for a 3 year old jade green peacock and $55 each for 2 pairs of year old black shouldered peafowl.

Peacocks easily fly to the top of light poles and have been known to roost on the tops of cars. Since they have long toenails that scratch the new out of paint, my peafowl remain in a very large covered cage. The only one I have allowed to free range was the stupid one that froze to death in the top of a tree.

The more exotic colors can be more expensive.