**~~>>Second Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatchathon<<~~**all poultry welcome!

[Arielle]

OK i like the dark meat on a Turkey and chicken I know its the lesser of the healthy part of the bird but IT is my fav
would a Heritage bird be the best for me or BB ?

I eat both. I raise both.

ANd I totally disagree with the dark parts being less healthy. A corn muffin is less healthy; a chocolate chip cookie is less healthy. Fill up on good meat and a pile of veg ! Sorry-- I don't follow the "low fat is best" rubbish. THat was debunked years ago but it still persists on the morning TV shows. Ughhh

I love the dark meat and eat the white under duress; my son likes the white meat and skips the dark. Fine with me!!

Your home grown bird will grow up without antibiotics and in a cleaner environment and with less stresss. ( I"m not anti commercial, rather home grown is better.

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[Arielle]

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i keep my geese with my muscovy too

I'm drawing the line at Muscovies!!!! Love looking at geese, love eating them . . . . . 6 ducks is more than enough to share the kiddie pool, lol, might fit 1 goose in it, all to himself.

you could do what I did... buy more kiddie pools!


my cayugas and pekins spend more time in the water than the muscovys


Just waiting for the summer items to show up!!!! The one pool jgets so yucky that I tip it, spill it, clean it and set it up to dry. THen refill the next day. WOuld be nice to alternate pools of muddy water!!

 

[yinepu]

Quote: My friend's cochin is sitting on 32! I think she said another hen is helping sit, but not sure if that's all the time.
HOLY Molasses On the COUNTER!

Now why can't they pose like this at the end of my driveway?

Then I'd be really cool.

how cool! what on earth are they doing? they gonna have a gun fight doin paces or wha?

just two hens waiting for the lucky toms to come along....

 

[superchemicalgirl]

OMG would someone please sew me a straitjacket?

In an attempt to NOT CANDLE THE TURKEYS TODAY...

I just bought some dark cornish hatching eggs on ebay.

And now I'm going to go candle my turkey eggs.

 

[Arielle]

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ROTFL

At least the rams are gentlemen, they talk to the girl, and nudge her with his front leg and needs to read her willingness or not. Rather endearing.

 

[Arielle]

Can a Standard Cochin hen sit on 14 marans eggs? I want to make sure I didn't give her too many!

My tiny EE hen came home with 13 chicks . . . . not sure how many she was sitting on. SHe's one of my smallest hens= mixed breeding of hatchery standard stock.

Ignore this-- you have a plan.

 

[Arielle]

Second Annual Cinco De Mayo Turkey Hatch a long Digest 4-11-2013

TahiDye has the allergic to chicks cat with the growth. We were assured that the cat had anti biotics and was getting to eat Tuna. Lucky Cat!(for getting to eat tuna) Also asked about chicken saddles….for the hens of course….not the cat

Mahonri was the person egg bombed by SCG! He has joined the hatch but now must convince the DW that he did not buy those eggs…SCG posted after that about “accidentally” spilling Ketamine on her hands and hoped there would not be a random drug test.

Tommysgirl candled and found veins in the Dorking eggs!

Wife2abirdman posted pictures of Turkey Poults in a stylish purple laundry basket. Lovely Poults! That is what I am hatching?

Razadia added more to the bator today and is hatching too. She sends them to the feed store!

More TammyN Poetry—this one about bear cubs and a scared room mate!

Lotsapaints posted a huge paragraph about incubating in a Cabinet incubator and chicken life at his place.

Sally Sunshine wished us a good morning!

Arielle reminded us that the Feed conversion ratio is not good with Emus and chickens a better conversion ratio making Emus better for pets than meat birds. Then she told us, in red font, that Muscovy Ducks were needed! Ynepu posted more information about the demise of Emu Farming—Lots of reasons for the demise it seems.

Post switched to Broody talk then. Karimw has 4! LFchixranch wondered if dunking a broody in ice water would break them. Please check the Geneva Convention first!

Razadia fixed the broken laptop by hot gluing the cables together. I thought something from Jurasic Park had spit on the cables at first. Good Job fixing the power cable! We also found out that Razadia is Certified or rather her place is NPIP Certified!

Nickie form Kentucky will give DURR some Turkey eggs for EE eggs but DURR has to get to Kentucky. Durr wanted to pay for shipping instead of driving. Prices of Poults and the difference between hybrids and Heritage Turkeys continued for several posts.

ThaiDye posted a link to Vulture Hocks: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/106976/vulture-hocks gryeyes has vulture hocks on some chicks. She does not care since she does not enter them into shows.

Gryeyes is very proud of her Tom Turkey—he mated today! The description of the act sounds kind of messy though….

NotAFarm posted a Haiku!

Sally Sunshine wanted to know if a Cochin could sit on 14 Marans eggs! Yinepu said one had 20 under their hen! Wisher had a Buff Orp sit on 24 and hatch 21! Not to be outdone, ThaiDye has a friend with a Cochin sitting on 32!

Tomorrow is Friday!

Thank you ROn!!

 

[Arielle]

really I've even met ronott1 I am a woman don't want to be a girl again either.....well I have chicks making quite the racket and how many times have you all candled your eggs? I can't since I have chicks hatching in there....have about 4 dozen turkey eggs so far to put in there Sat or Sunday come on chicks hatch so you can get the flock outta there LOL I knew those turkeys would know I couldn't put any in the incubator for a few days. I have 2 toms who look at each other and mate the air who knows why even if they have a hen laying down right by them if only I knew turkey sign language they just make that puff sound....when they were younger I caught them being lovey dovey to the 2x6 I guess that was practice....

I have chicken eggs in buckets tried to sell them on craigslist and people called wanting to know if I had chicks

really the ad said hatching eggs or they wanted to buy grown stuff hummm I'm going to reword that ad tonight

I have the same problem-- I list chicks or poults for sale and they ask for hatching eggs!!!!

Save yourself the effort-- don't change your ad!!!!

 

[mlm Mike]

OMG would someone please sew me a straitjacket?

In an attempt to NOT CANDLE THE TURKEYS TODAY...

I just bought some dark cornish hatching eggs on ebay.

And now I'm going to go candle my turkey eggs.

 

[yinepu]

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nothing at all wrong with eating a little fat in your food.. and homegrown turkey is better for ya then junk food any day!