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[A1momof3]

Lisa, what method did ya'll use? Did you hang them upside down and slit the neck or just chop/wring their necks? I plan on trying the upside down method so that they won't chase me around the yard! Whoa! What a squash!! What are you going to do with it?? The shade looks good. Nice egg! Pretty color too. You've got some very opinionated girls! Maybe they just like to lay close to the feed. Take a bite or two while they are waiting? LOL I would try putting them in there tonight, when everyone is up on the roost. Just put them up on the roost and then be out there early am and see how it goes? They have been introduced to each other through some wire I assume? Good news and bad news. Went and checked on the chickens. Everyone is up on the roost! I didn't have to put anyone up there tonight. It only took 4 nights of placing them on the roost for all of them to learn to get up there. Bad news, my Jack-Rat terrier appears to have been snake bit sometime this afternoon. I noticed him earlier standing around with his head cocked. I thought he had a tick in his ear. He gets those from time to time and they are a bugger to get out. Makes his ear really sore. I tried to look in it, but he kept whimpering, so I let him be planning on getting him on the porch tomorrow in the sunlight and checking out his ear. Hard to see a tick in the evening even with a flashlight and reading glasses. I checked him again when I came back from the coop. He usually goes with me, but didn't tonight. That is when I could tell his jaw/lower lip was swollen. I planned on taking him to the vet tomorrow, but just remembered tomorrow is the 4th, so won't be open. He only weights 18 lbs, so don't know how it will turn out. You can give them benadryl, but I don't have any injectable and there is no way he can take the oral. Keep your fingers crossed for me. He's my little buddy.

Hey how is your little buddie this morning?? I know country dogs get bit from time to time and swell up but they are normally ok. Not sure about the weight though. I'm such a soft hearted person that I just brake down when we lose a dog or cat. I hope he is ok this morning!

Hope he is ok. My handyman's neighbor's little dog got bit by a copperhead and was ok. I'll say a prayer for him. People are shooting off things that go BOOM near me (in the park I think) and poor Sasha is so scared. I think I need to get her a Thunder Jacket. I hope they stop soon. I may need to call the police otherwise. Fireworks aren't legal in the city limits. edit: The guy I spoke to about raising chickens uses one of those cone things to cull his birds. He slits the jugular enough to make the bird bleed out, but enough to instantly kill it. That way the heart pumps all the blood out of the body for you. Made sense to me. I don't think I could do that though. I have a hard time killing anything more that a big.

I know I'm worried about my flock tonight. Every year the boys set off fireworks and the last few years it's been a great show bevause they have their own money to spend. But I'm worried about my flock. Going yo he a crazy night. Dogs and cats will go into the house but chickens can't. Lol

Happy July Fourth to all of you... wings and without wings. e

Hey happy fourth to you!! We have missed you!! Hope all is well with you and yours!!! Well I didn't add the new once last night. I'm going to move their pen into the run for a week then move them into the coop. Sometimes I worry about my brain. Untill y'all said that last night it hadn't even dawned on me that I hadn't done that yet. Knowing full well I had already planned that out when I got them. Lol They are going to put me in a home one of these days.

 

[TexasLisa]

Happy July Fourth to all of you... wings and without wings.

HAPPY 4TH Hung! What is the latest on Charlie and your beloved wife?

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The method we used on culling our turkeys: we cut the corner off of a burlap sack. Ken held the turkey and I slipped the sack over the head. We then put a noose around it legs and hoisted the bird up by chain with the tractor. We had a bucket under the turkey and Ken slit the vein. Very quick, some jerky movement and it was over. I didn't have a pan big enough to scald it, so Ken cut a metal 50 gal. drum in half and we had our big pot. We dipped it for about 30 seconds to a minute and we plucked.

Lisa

 

[lovingmyhens]

HAPPY 4TH Hung! What is the latest on Charlie and your beloved wife?

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The method we used on culling our turkeys: we cut the corner off of a burlap sack. Ken held the turkey and I slipped the sack over the head. We then put a noose around it legs and hoisted the bird up by chain with the tractor. We had a bucket under the turkey and Ken slit the vein. Very quick, some jerky movement and it was over. I didn't have a pan big enough to scald it, so Ken cut a metal 50 gal. drum in half and we had our big pot. We dipped it for about 30 seconds to a minute and we plucked.

Lisa

yuck

 

[Ms Jellybean]

I've heard that skinning the birds is easier to do. Less mess and stink at least.


I finished the caulking! I've got the two sides that I am working on ready to paint!!!! Calking took 4 hours.

Gong to grab something to eat and start painting. I think I need to check the radar too. It's getting cloudy. As much as we need rain, I do not want it to rain today.

 

[henless]

*Update*

Took Jack to the ER vet this morning. They took some blood to check for clotting factor. His was only very slightly elevated, so they said if he got any venom, it probably wasn't much. (I didn't know snakes could bite without injecting venom!) I could take him home and give him meds, or leave him overnight. I took him home. He gets to be a house dog for a couple of days so that I can keep an eye on him for any changes.. Hopefully everything will be ok.

@A1momof3 - Don't worry about the brain problem. It's very common once you hit a certain age.


Happy 4th of July everyone!

 

[A1momof3]

yuck

I'll double that yuck! Lol

Well temp pen is up in big pen and my BCM have been moved over, a layer of fresh cut grass is down in the coop and pen, quoritene pen taken down abc put away.... A fills days work!! To cool off I jumped into the pool and as I was trying nit to die from the heat I heard it! The song..... The egg song.... One started then another then another..... But of course there were no eggs. Lol. From the sound of it they should have been dropping eggs left and right. Lol
I'm so tired and my joints are hurting so bad. Hubby wants to have this big fish fry but I just want to mold into my chair and eat Popsicles. Lol

 

[harley1975]

Well it's done one dressed out at 13lbs and the other one 15lbs. They where 18 weeks old today. We hung them by their feet and cut their neck. And dry picked them I do not have a pan big enough to scowled them. It was not as hard as I thought it would be. They say the white broad breasted are easy to puck and it went ok about 25 mins to puck each one. Me and the wife picked together on each of them but it was our 1st time to do it. I will not do this again until I get my pucker made. And for those who want to know the cost it ran me about $3 a pound. That's the cost of the turkey and the feed.

 

[A1momof3]

*Update*

Took Jack to the ER vet this morning. They took some blood to check for clotting factor. His was only very slightly elevated, so they said if he got any venom, it probably wasn't much. (I didn't know snakes could bite without injecting venom!) I could take him home and give him meds, or leave him overnight. I took him home. He gets to be a house dog for a couple of days so that I can keep an eye on him for any changes.. Hopefully everything will be ok. 

@A1momof3 - Don't worry about the brain problem. It's very common once you hit a certain age.


Happy 4th of July everyone!

Brain thing???? What brain thing!!!
ROFLMBO!!!
Baahahaha

 

[TexasLisa]

Well it's done one dressed out at 13lbs and the other one 15lbs. They where 18 weeks old today. We hung them by their feet and cut their neck. And dry picked them I do not have a pan big enough to scowled them. It was not as hard as I thought it would be. They say the white broad breasted are easy to puck and it went ok about 25 mins to puck each one. Me and the wife picked together on each of them but it was our 1st time to do it. I will not do this again until I get my pucker made. And for those who want to know the cost it ran me about $3 a pound. That's the cost of the turkey and the feed.

Good job Harley! I know you both are happy that is over with for now. Nice size turkeys. (Ahem......where are the pictures?)

Lisa

 

[harley1975]

Good job Harley!  I know you both are happy that is over with for now.  Nice size turkeys.  (Ahem......where are the pictures?) 

Lisa

Well I forgot to take any while we was doing it and the are already bagged up and in the freezer now. I am getting cleaned up now so we can go to the new TSC that opens today. It's about 5 mile away from me. The other one is 16 miles. So you girls don't look I am about to get in the shower.