She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

[kwhites634]

Yeah....that is one thing I don't miss. Lol!!! Living in Alaska is beautiful but the cold weather just lasts too long.

One of my grandsons is stationed @ Ft. Wainwright, in Fairbanks. He was complaining last week that they just had the biggest snowfall ever there recently. Don't know how accurate that is, but I do know I've never hurt my back shoveling rain.

 

[RubyNala97]

One of my grandsons is stationed @ Ft. Wainwright, in Fairbanks. He was complaining last week that they just had the biggest snowfall ever there recently. Don't know how accurate that is, but I do know I've never hurt my back shoveling rain.

 

[rossfam06]

One of my grandsons is stationed @ Ft. Wainwright, in Fairbanks. He was complaining last week that they just had the biggest snowfall ever there recently. Don't know how accurate that is, but I do know I've never hurt my back shoveling rain.

Hahahahah!!!!! We had a plow attachment for our 4 wheeler so we didn't break our backs either. I did as a kid have to shovel a driveway almost the length of a football field. Lol!!! Now that sucked. But we did keep in shape and built snow forts all the time.

 

[kwhites634]

Hahahahah!!!!! We had a plow attachment for our 4 wheeler so we didn't break our backs either. I did as a kid have to shovel a driveway almost the length of a football field. Lol!!! Now that sucked. But we did keep in shape and built snow forts all the time.

Unfortunately, my 4-wheeler isn't big enough to handle a blade, from what I'm told; it's a Polaris Hawkeye 300. I do have a snow blower, though, for when it gets bad enough that the wife's fwd won't handle it.

 

[WVduckchick]

Have you gone to the sex-link information thread? There's some real nice charts in the first post. I love that thread! I breed sex links from red EE roo x Dominique and SLW. Beautiful hens it does produce!!


New thread? We said they said???

Walnut, your birds are absolutely gorgeous! I'm LOVING that Columbian pattern. Those just might produce some nice sex links, except for the underlying crossing that made them!

I have one little pullet who likes to spar with her 2 hatch mate cockrels at the same time. The 3 of them were going at it for a good half hour yesterday. If I wasn't convinced that she was a BSL, I'd be worried about her gender issues. Hmmmm.... perhaps she does have gender issues!!! She's a feisty one. Perhaps I SHOULD name her Raven. Normal??? I think I saw that. It's a setting on my washer.

Ah, the light bulb goes off when I read your post here. If you breed the second generation of sex links, you will not get sex links. It has to be breeding from first generation, generally with a dark male over a light female, with specific gene patterns that affect feathering. Read that sex linked information thread.

And so she blows yet an other hole in the "they said" endless drivvel litany of truths.

I'm going to look for that sex-link thread. Thanks. How about some pics of your results from your combos?

I think a we-said-they-said thread would be hilarious!

Also agree on the Columbian pattern bird! Very nice.

Sure beats 45

About the same here... but it is getting me in the mood to sit in the woods with a bow and some arrows...

 

[WalnutHill]

I should be having a pullet or two laying soon, so I was just wondering.....
Yes, and I brought the article home. Tons of pics, from their massive brooders with hundreds of poults to a little old Italian lady, holding a turkey that's half her size! Lol. It says for turkey orders, choose from white, Bourbon Red, heritage or wild turkey. So you would go with heritage?

Wild turkey are super turkey flavored, pretty much all dark meat like pheasant.

Bourbon Red are a heritage turkey, most of the birds I am raising this year are Bourbon Red. Nice, big birds but temperaments on all the stock I've acquired have been too flighty or aggressive to want to breed them.

"Heritage" reflects any of the APA recognized varieties http://www.amerpoultryassn.com/Breeds-Varieties - Waterfowl, Turkey, Guinea - APA WEB.pdf

A marketing term for halfbreeds (half broad breasted, half heritage) is "heirloom turkey" which is not a variety at all, just a useful mutt. I have a few of them and they are a nice compromise between the lean heritage and the overstuffed Broad Breasted birds. My cross is Gen 1 and they are developing very nicely. They are a bit bulkier than the heritage, with the heavy bones of the Broad Breasted, but they are not showing the hip and leg issues and can still fly a bit at four months old where same-age broad breasted are floor dwellers. I hope to be able to cross them together next year.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I have one little pullet who likes to spar with her 2 hatch mate cockrels at the same time. The 3 of them were going at it for a good half hour yesterday. If I wasn't convinced that she was a BSL, I'd be worried about her gender issues. Hmmmm.... perhaps she does have gender issues!!! She's a feisty one. Perhaps I SHOULD name her Raven. Normal??? I think I saw that. It's a setting on my washer.

 

[kwhites634]

I don't see anything marked "Normal" on our washer. Where would I look in relation to the ringers?

 

[Ren2014]

Well... I have drifted to the red side. Today is hatch day

I started hearing peeps and seeing some movement on one egg yesterday. I watched that thing all night long and nothing. This morning nothing. No peeps, no pips, no zips. Then all of a sudden I had a chick from one of the silent eggs. All I could see was one end of the shell and she was dragging it around with her. Turns out her leg was wrapped around a membrane of some kind inside the other half ... the chalaza?? And that half of the shell was inside the other half. Anywho, I had to break whatever it was to free her leg from the egg. This is my first time to incubate eggs and only 3 of 16 made it this far. Should I drop the temp some now that one has hatched?

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Well... I have drifted to the red side. Today is hatch day

I started hearing peeps and seeing some movement on one egg yesterday. I watched that thing all night long and nothing. This morning nothing. No peeps, no pips, no zips. Then all of a sudden I had a chick from one of the silent eggs. All I could see was one end of the shell and she was dragging it around with her. Turns out her leg was wrapped around a membrane of some kind inside the other half ... the chalaza?? And that half of the shell was inside the other half. Anywho, I had to break whatever it was to free her leg from the egg. This is my first time to incubate eggs and only 3 of 16 made it this far. Should I drop the temp some now that one has hatched?

Yeah RED! It was probably the "umbilicus" or the cord that was still attatched that was wrapped around it's leg. Many people do adjust down a degree at hatch, I don't but I usually end up loosing a degree just from being red and opening the bator...lol