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

[Wisher1000]

I would like to try that, Arielle, sounds yummy. I am not familiar with "cellophane (bean) type noodles," can you elaborate? Maybe give me some rough amounts of each? I don't have to have an exact recipe, but I would like a ballpark amount for when I make it the first time.

 

[ThaiDye]

Thai-- so happy you found an answer to your beloveds condition. Tumeric as a medical treatment has not been learned in this country. So many herbal treatments that need studying to bring them into more prominent use. HOw much tumeric are you giving and how do you get the creature to eat it??

The website I found recommended 1/4 tsp for every 10 lbs of body weight. Mini Munch is only 8 lbs so I'm using 1/8 tsp & mixing it in her soft food. Much to her dismay, I am force feeding it to be sure she gets her dosage. She did eat some on her own b4, but like any cat, she'd walk away leaving some untouched. I feed it at bedtime since that's when the body naturally regenerates itself.
Come to think of it, I should be giving it to both cats since Fireball has digestive problems. I've tried adding Probios to the food, but DH does most of the feeding & I think he forgets to add it.

 

[Razadia]

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I know a few cats that won't touch tuna.

 

[Arielle]

I would like to try that, Arielle, sounds yummy. I am not familiar with "cellophane (bean) type noodles," can you elaborate? Maybe give me some rough amounts of each? I don't have to have an exact recipe, but I would like a ballpark amount for when I make it the first time.

2-3 T butter
1/2 yellow onion
1/2 bell pepper green
1/2 bell pepper yellow
2-3 chopped hot peppers-- depending on your taste buds -- sorry sometimes I leave this out
2-3T tumeric

Cellophane noodles are clear and might be in the asian ailse. I don't use it myself. THese are clearish supposedly made from beans. Long thin like spagetti and packaged in cellophane plastic, 1 package maybe 6-12 oz. Lady brought a pkg into work to show me. Cook according to directions on pkg

1-2 lb shrimp
1 cup peas
salt and pepper

This is the basics, but as I have mentioned earlier I don't eat a lot of carbs so I eliminate the "pasta" and the peas and mix everything else together; Less salt and less tumeric and less hot peppers or it would be over whelming.

 

[Arielle]

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I know a few cats that won't touch tuna.
THat's a cat for you!!

 

[ThaiDye]

Got My necropsy report back for my Marans.


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While waiting for the report, a young cockerel that was in qt with her also passed. Maybe he just had the pneumonia. There is still on chook in qt, but I'll leave her there until she's feeling healthy again for a week or two.

 

[debs_flock]

Got My necropsy report back for my Marans.


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While waiting for the report, a young cockerel that was in qt with her also passed. Maybe he just had the pneumonia. There is still on chook in qt, but I'll leave her there until she's feeling healthy again for a week or two.

Well that's good news, something totally non-contagious. I don't recall, this was a youngster? A retained yolk sack? I had that come back on a necropsy once as well, although mine actually died from cocci.

 

[Arielle]

Got My necropsy report back for my Marans.


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While waiting for the report, a young cockerel that was in qt with her also passed. Maybe he just had the pneumonia. There is still on chook in qt, but I'll leave her there until she's feeling healthy again for a week or two.

YOu must feel relieved to have an answer.

 

[Pkillian]

We were butchering the Giant Whites or other of the many names they call them. Now we have switched to Heritage breeds so we can incubate our own and eliminate the cost of the initial purchase. We started with The Rhode Island Reds and they are nothing but soup chickens, now this year we are trying Buff Orpingtons, and White Rocks. We will be butchering in four months rather than 52 days. Hopefully, everyone in the family will be happy with the change. If the BO and WR don't work out, I want to try the Turkens. Stay tuned.

 

[Arielle]

We were butchering the Giant Whites or other of the many names they call them. Now we have switched to Heritage breeds so we can incubate our own and eliminate the cost of the initial purchase. We started with The Rhode Island Reds and they are nothing but soup chickens, now this year we are trying Buff Orpingtons, and White Rocks. We will be butchering in four months rather than 52 days. Hopefully, everyone in the family will be happy with the change. If the BO and WR don't work out, I want to try the Turkens. Stay tuned.

THere are a few good lines of heritage birds suitable for the dinner table; just hard to find. Hatchery BO is bones, can't speak for the Wh rocks. Everything I have tried so far is bones, or nearly so. So I have a couple cornishX growing up to try out. ( might keep a hen ) and the turkeys?? A heritage turkey ( I can vouch for BR and auburn) are plenty meaty.