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

[Arielle]

Quote: My rams are dorset--corriedale, but even my pure Corr were gentlemen. Too easy to get hurt without a willing partner. I love the call, the pleading baaa . . . . .

I am ashamed to say I ate goose liver pate on my 30th birthday as an appetizer, before I also ate filet mignon for the first time. (That was a great birthday... Nearly 30 years ago.) I say ashamed because I knew how it was produced back then... And I've never had it since.

Now, should I be offered pate at the home of a friend who processed a goose, that would be different. No friend of mine would force/tube feed a goose just to get good tasting liver.

Ron, turkey sex isn't messy, just ugly. Most of the time the Tom just stands there on the hen's back, treading and treading. But he gets such a perverted expression, eyes closed, beak open, drooling and panting. The hens have to be patient AND have strong backs! I am so surprised they squat for that abuse.

At least chicken sex is quick.

Linda, I can think of worse things than being force fed-- no need to feel ashamed. Bet it tasted great. I had fillet mignon back in the day too. Still remember the restaurant and the friend that took me out for my birthday. THey didn't have goose pate though. Someday . . . . .studded with pistachios I think.

I try not to watch--the process takes soooo long, it is a wonder a coyote doesn't grab the tom if they were in the wild. Chickens seem to have a safer method-- though I dolike the dance Carmel-Boy puts on to wooo the hens now that their Rooster is penned with an ouchy foot. Took Carmel-BOy a few weeks to realize the tyrant is not protecting his flock. Several roosters have taken over now. THey all do the dance, then jump on and HURRY.

you all are feeding my need to have turkeys again...Back in the day my daughters got 6 for a 4-H project then Newcastle Disease put the kaybosh on any exhibiting poultry so they became dinner. They were hysterical and I free ranged em until they started causing problems in the neighborhood. Apparently they had no respect for private property and didn't know where ours ended. One day the neighbor across the street came over to tell me they were in his yard...ooops.... as I apologized he stammered " I I didn't know what or how to do uhmmm deal I mean well... They won't be intimidated." I laughed because I pictured them 4 BRs and 2 Naragansetts moving slowly out of his way then going right back to their scratching and pecking as he flailed about and threatened. I couldn't see them but went out on my porch and called them and they came running , wings down and out rocking back and forth the hustled across the street. My neighbor couldn't believe it. He said something equally eloquent to his earlier comment and went home.

They were fun but the best thing about them was how they tasted!

Great story!!

 

[Arielle]

Well I had lots to say, but I forgot when SCG said she was going to candle. Now I want to candle something. So just going to say.....

Hi.

THanks for the chuckle . . .

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love to see the pdf on that. Love food history. WEll, the reality is I love food!

SCG I wish I knew you were in the market for Dark Cornish, I have some that just started laying, they are hatchery stock but I have a couple hens with the pearl eyes. They are really hard to come by from reputable breeders as they normal cull the ones they don't like. If you have issues with yours send me a pm and I'll polish egg bomb ya... You pay the shipping. It will be a few weeks b4 I get the breeding pens up though, right now it's like somebody mentioned about taking turns on the hens around here. Here's a pic of the pearl eyes in the middle right. Her lacing is not the best but I was gonna work on that.

I talked with Fowlman about his cornish; seems lie these birds are abit of a challenge. WOndered what you thought?

Ohmygod I'm franking out I need help please. We are getting a large thunder storm that knocked out power almost an hour ago, the huge system isn't supposed to clear til early morning. I just got off the phone with the power company and they said lightning struck the transformer, and knocked it down. They can't replace it until the storm subsides, and even then it could take up to 2-3 hours to put a new one up and re wire it. I'm looking at possIbly Nine hours without power to my incubator

will my egg survive, how can I keep the temps from dropping? How do I keep them warm that long so I don't lose them ? HELP

You can buy an adaptor at electronic supply store. Plugs into the car plug, and the incubator plugs into the adaptor. When Sandy hit here the LG went into the car, then we heard how long power sould be out, DH took them to work where they had power. ( It will drain the battery so car needs to be started up every few hours.)

Perhaps if you have a huge unit it will hold the heat and just cause a delay. Good luck!!

 

[ronott1]

Quote:

love to see the pdf on that. Love food history. WEll, the reality is I love food!

SCG I wish I knew you were in the market for Dark Cornish, I have some that just started laying, they are hatchery stock but I have a couple hens with the pearl eyes. They are really hard to come by from reputable breeders as they normal cull the ones they don't like. If you have issues with yours send me a pm and I'll polish egg bomb ya... You pay the shipping. It will be a few weeks b4 I get the breeding pens up though, right now it's like somebody mentioned about taking turns on the hens around here. Here's a pic of the pearl eyes in the middle right. Her lacing is not the best but I was gonna work on that.

I talked with Fowlman about his cornish; seems lie these birds are abit of a challenge. WOndered what you thought?

Ohmygod I'm franking out I need help please. We are getting a large thunder storm that knocked out power almost an hour ago, the huge system isn't supposed to clear til early morning. I just got off the phone with the power company and they said lightning struck the transformer, and knocked it down. They can't replace it until the storm subsides, and even then it could take up to 2-3 hours to put a new one up and re wire it. I'm looking at possIbly Nine hours without power to my incubator

will my egg survive, how can I keep the temps from dropping? How do I keep them warm that long so I don't lose them ? HELP

You can buy an adaptor at electronic supply store. Plugs into the car plug, and the incubator plugs into the adaptor. When Sandy hit here the LG went into the car, then we heard how long power sould be out, DH took them to work where they had power. ( It will drain the battery so car needs to be started up every few hours.)

Perhaps if you have a huge unit it will hold the heat and just cause a delay. Good luck!!
Walmart sells the inverter--They are in the $20.00 range.

Genesis 1588 incubators have a battery adapter kit. I have a walmart car battery and a charger. This setup should run two incubators for 24 hours or so. After that it would have to go to the car with the inverter.

 

[Arielle]

Quote: Sounds delish!!

Thank you all, I don't have anyway to the heat the room it was in, but the rock Idea got me think, I wrapped the bator in blanket stuck it in the bathroom, since this part of the house stays warmer than the rest, and put to little hand pocket warm things in their, they last for up to four hours. and I have two more I can put in later. Bator has been off for four hours and with the two little hand warmers the temp is hovering around 93 degrees.

Your body heat will help keep the temps up too. Cover windows. Towels along bottom of closed doors . . .

One of my Flarry Eye Grey eggs pipped! They are still in the Brinsea with the eggs I set last Sun. I never got the homemade bator stable enough to trust it. Now I'm gonna stop rotation until they hatch. I was only rotating 3 times a day (down from 5 when I saw how far along the FEG eggs were). Hope to see some serious unzipping by morning.

Good luck!!

This morning I remembered that I had some eggs that might be hatching around this time. I didn't mark the date I set them but when I candled them this past weekend they looked like they where getting close. So checked on them this morning and they where starting to pip. So should have a bunch of Blacks sex link chicks soon. I also candled the turkey eggs (I set mine last Friday). With all the speckles they are hard to see into, but I did see some definite veining in some of them. Yay!

Whoot!! Goood luck. I have a breeding pen of blue amercauca on black barred hens, they make a pretty lt and med olive egg together and they are sexlinked. I have eggs for sale, and the chicks have been popular at the sales.

Quote: YOu definitely need another incubator-- makes staggered hatches a lot easier. Ask me how I know! heeeeeheeeee

 

[Arielle]

Quote: Walmart sells the inverter--They are in the $20.00 range.

Genesis 1588 incubators have a battery adapter kit. I have a walmart car battery and a charger. This setup should run two incubators for 24 hours or so. After that it would have to go to the car with the inverter.


Nice set up!!!

 

[ronott1]

Quote: Walmart sells the inverter--They are in the $20.00 range.

Genesis 1588 incubators have a battery adapter kit. I have a walmart car battery and a charger. This setup should run two incubators for 24 hours or so. After that it would have to go to the car with the inverter.


Nice set up!!!
I had to use it three weeks ago--a transformer went out and the power was off for 4 hours. I got back home to plug it all in at the 1.5 hour mark--Did not even delay the hatch. The Temperature on my Brinsea\waterweasel probe said 90 degrees so the eggs did not cool down too much. I know of some people that had the temp go down to 70 and the eggs hatched normally.

 

[Mahonri]

Boston just came by the office this morning... told me all his hens are laying like CRAZY in Heber... I told him to put some BCMs in for me this weekend... I figure as long as I'll be brooding, the more the merrier, right?

 

[cmfarm]

Just set my tutors. Some EE, Marans, Welsummers, and silkies (and some more guinea eggs, but they won't hatch until the week after the turkeys). About 3 dozen of the chicken eggs.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

ugggg..... wondering....

I got a notice that occasionally State Farm Insurance comes to inspect property's for homeowners, they will be here anytime in the next 90 days.

How will my coops and chicken play in this "visit" suggestions anyone run into this?

 

[Loghousemom]

ugggg..... wondering....

I got a notice that occasionally State Farm Insurance comes to inspect property's for homeowners, they will be here anytime in the next 90 days.

How will my coops and chicken play in this "visit" suggestions anyone run into this?

Sally, we had our place inspected for insurance purposes last year. I do not remember there being any issues with the chickens, but we also only have one coop. He didn't even really look at it much.

Boston just came by the office this morning... told me all his hens are laying like CRAZY in Heber... I told him to put some BCMs in for me this weekend... I figure as long as I'll be brooding, the more the merrier, right?

No way! My hubs was just down in the Lakeside area looking for places. We may be moving! Now I know I will have to look you all up when we get there. Seems like AZ likely has more chicken folk than ND does....