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[Okla-doodle-doo]

Okay if you guys aren't going to come out and play I am going to bed! Gotta get up and take MIL to church tomorrow. Would rather take a whippin!lol. There is no filter between her brain and her mouth so she will say anything and doesn't know what a whisper is! If she some one with a big butt she will comment on it and you just want to swollowed up by the floor!lol
Have a good night and may you dream of fluffy chicks!

 

[phpoultrysales]

Had A Great Night Down In Fletcher!!! It Was Great Getting To Visit With Everyone!!! Looking Forward To Seeing Everyone Next Saturday! Auction Starts At 4pm!!! We Will Begin Taking Birds From 9- Through The Sale!!! If There Is Any Questions Let Me Know!!!!

 

[sjarvis00]

Good Morning!!! I havent seen the board this slow in a long time. I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday weekend!

We went to Fletcher last night and had a great time. After the auction was over we went to Michael Daugherty's place to look at all the pretty birds! And we still made it home by a decent hour.

Well time to start working. Gotta go to the lumber yard today so we can work on pens tomorrow.

Everyone have a great day!!!

 

[al6517]

Morning all : Up early this morning had to fire up the Smoker for today's BBQ, doing a full compliment of the traditional meat's. Pork shoulder, 2 rack's of ribs, Brisket, Chicken, and sausage and all the fixin's. So I gotta get hoppin plus I am going to have the small TV outside so I can watch the Indy 500 and do some serious relaxing with my girls and a few friends, oh yeah I think that little cowboy who's been sniffin around Alyssa will also show up

AL

 

[al6517]

I coulda helped, but how in the world do ya get lost in a one horse town, we don't even have a stop light LOL, Carl musta been driving hehehehe.

AL

 

[sjarvis00]

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No, I was! LOL! We went to Trivets and had a late lunch, Carl was joking and said we should call you and say we were lost.... He said I bet Al would get a kick out of it, how in the world do you get lost in a small town.

 

[al6517]

OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I seeeeee soooo it's like that is it, playin tricks on me uh

AL

 

[TheBarnSwallow]

Good Morning,

Have good and bad news all rolled into one..

For a long time now one of our bronze turkey hens went really broody...never leaving the nest that I saw... anyhow picked up our kids last night and came home(i slept in very tired) Jason comes in because Aleisha went to go check on the turkey hen and found an egg rolled away from the nest squished but with a full turkey in it (downy feathers and all) so that means that was a fertile mertle egg... my few questions are this

Will she move off the nest if a baby is hatching ?

and if so

is it possible for the other turkey hens and the tom to "kill it" if it was trying to hatch out on its own?

She still laying on about 8 eggs right now and doesnt want to leave the nest we would like to try and candle them but dont want to disturb them as much as possible...

should we move the other turkeys away from the turkey pen for a lil while to see if any thing else tries to hatch out?


I am so eggcited but sad at the same time.... knowing we could have had our first turkey baby born .... naturally too!


JEANNIE

PS HELLO everyone

OH MY I am a THREAD KILLER

 

[oldbat]

Hi Barnswallow I just had something similar happen so can only tell you what I did.

Mine (Sweetgrass) had nested next to the border fence in the pasture right behind the machine shed at the edge of the feed ground......with one of her sisters. When the eggs started hatching, the sister grabbed the first two and quit the flats, going out past the buildings to the open pasture where the other turkeys and chickens only visit...don't hang out much. The one left refused to leave....had hatched out 5, but still clinging desperately to the nest. I put a waterer and feeder near her so the poults could drink and eat if they wanted to.

When 3 days had passed, and I found one of the first born poults dead, I took the rest of the eggs, peeled the crushed shell off one that was cheeping madly (no blood showing anywhere in the shell...he'd been at it a while), stuck the new poult under the hen, gathered up the rest of the unhatched eggs......nine of them.....put them in a feed bag and added them to the burn pit. (I'd already incubated and hatched over 60 turkey eggs, so you might not want to do that if this is the only hatch you've had. They could have gone into an incubator and finished hatching, but I really do not need any more turkeys, and was letting the hens set simply to see how/if they would/could handle raising a family by themselves with no help from me....for future reference.)

The hen still refused to leave the nest, so I occasionally went out and pestered her to make her move. After about a day and a half, she finally started moving along the pasture fence. That evening, while I was feeding, noticed the five remaining poults had taken matters into their own hands , had gone thru the hog wire into my driveway, and were busily hunting for something to eat. The hen was frantically running the fence, trying to get to them. I opened the gate to let her into the yard with them, then eased them across the yard, opened the south gate into the part of the pasture where the other hen had gone, and let them work their way into it while finishing my chores.

That was 3 days ago. This morning, the hen had her poults next to the yard fence, and all five were still alive. Later saw her sister who also still has her pair.

If there are other turkeys ...or chickens....in the same area as the nest....especially juveniles....they will try to kill newborns. The adult turkeys and laying hens paid no attention to either mom or poults, but the younger birds became a major PITA until I turned the garden hose on them when they went to that area. They soon decided they had business elsewhere and don't bother the little birds now that they are out in the bigger part of the pasture.

Along the same line....another hen (also Sweetgrass) who set earlier, and I'd been kind of ignoring, brought in 13 poults and when I checked the nest, all had hatched....only zipped halves left there. That was over a week ago, and she still has all 13. Excellent mother. Because there is no running water in that pasture, I've put some regular waterers at various places in the pasture that the Moms and their kids seem to pass through. Birds on the feed ground have big pans, which don't work for little guys.

I now have two Beltsville Whites walking the fence looking for a place to nest, and will need to figure out some way of discouraging them. I DO NOT need more turkeys.

All eggs are crossbreds.....head tom is SG; I did not get them separated when they should have been 'cause I seem to have developed a tendency to develop phlebitis at the slightest excuse, and having to lay in bed a lot with one leg in the air cuts down on what you get done. Since they were going into my own freezer/canning jars anyway, it really doesn't matter that they are not pure. Will be trying to sell some breeding pairs....they're nice birds.....pretty, too; I just don't need that many....they're way too prolific!!!

Hope this helps a little and you can save your eggs. Any questions, I'll try to answer them. Good luck. Old Bat

 

[smfamf]

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Jeannie, I don't know what to tell you about the turkeys. I have my first set of poult hatching right now. I couldn't remember what day I set them, so I was waiting for some sign to put them into lockdown. (Thanks for the incubating instructions, Roy.) They were doing nothing this morning and when I just got home from town, I had two pips. They are in the hatcher now. I have 13 eggs in there. I hope that I get a good hatch. They are Narragansett from Carla and Donna. I'm hoping to get at least a breeding pair for personal use.