The inevitable humidity question, day before lockdown, help please!

[aart]

Just gratuitous pics.....
So all 3 CCL pullets laid yesterday..Yay!
New(?) egg appears bluer...but will it last?
BCMxCCL on right....fading significantly after 7wks,
and she's had some real spray booth anomalies in the last week.
BC on left fading a bit too after only 3 wks.

 

[oregonkat]

real spray booth anomalies

What is that?
Your CCL egg is lovely, significantly bluer than mine .

 

[oregonkat]

So how about this for a National Geographic moment. I don't know if you remember that I hatched out 2 wild turkey eggs this past spring and my neighbor, who lives about a 1/4 mile from me said he would raise them. So, about a week after hatch, he came and got the chicks and raised them. One tom, one hen. They would not leave his barn and roosted in there until the tom disappeared. Neighbor said he hadn't seen him in about a month but the hen was still there. Got home last night from a LONG hike to discover a female turkey outside my front door. Hubby had gone to get some kindling for the fire and he said that the turkey allowed him to go right up to her.

Wow, thinks me! I wonder if this is the hen that I hatched out here, come home to the place she was born. She has been trying to get into the house, knocking on all the doors since about dawn. She roosted on the slippery metal roof last night making a hell of a racket scrabbling and scratching to prevent herself from falling off.Really NOT the brightest bird on the planet.
Anyway, she took food from me this morning. Is it possible that she knows she was born here??

 

[aart]

What is that?

Uneven brown coating...didn't take pics before selling.

Anyway, she took food from me this morning. Is it possible that she knows she was born here??

Possible...or at least is used to humans...someone's missing a turkey.
at the scrabbling on metal roof!

 

[WVduckchick]

So how about this for a National Geographic moment. I don't know if you remember that I hatched out 2 wild turkey eggs this past spring and my neighbor, who lives about a 1/4 mile from me said he would raise them. So, about a week after hatch, he came and got the chicks and raised them. One tom, one hen. They would not leave his barn and roosted in there until the tom disappeared. Neighbor said he hadn't seen him in about a month but the hen was still there. Got home last night from a LONG hike to discover a female turkey outside my front door. Hubby had gone to get some kindling for the fire and he said that the turkey allowed him to go right up to her.

Wow, thinks me! I wonder if this is the hen that I hatched out here, come home to the place she was born. She has been trying to get into the house, knocking on all the doors since about dawn. She roosted on the slippery metal roof last night making a hell of a racket scrabbling and scratching to prevent herself from falling off.Really NOT the brightest bird on the planet.
Anyway, she took food from me this morning. Is it possible that she knows she was born here??

That's cool! I guess anything is possible! Did you talk to the neighbor again?

 

[oregonkat]

Well, move to next chapter. I left for my exercise class today and this turkey, right outside the front door, decides that I am not actually his/her (now not sure that this is not the young tom) adoptive birth mother, but an enemy of some hideous kind. Now I should preface this by saying that I was wearing a light and dark grey puffy jacket at this point which may have made this idiot think I was another large turkey. The walkway from my house to my car is about 60 feet approx. This bird came running at me flapping his wings and making this really weird noise, at which point I started running backwards, towards the car, ninja leaping and kicking and screaming at this creature that was trying to kill me! My oldest son, 16, who has pyjama day today, heard me screaming and came running out in his bright blue PJ onesie (with monster feet attached), and started gobbling and charging at the bird. At this point in time, I had made it to the car, in hysterics watching my very tall, very slim boy running away to the house in his blue onesie being pursued by a VERY upset turkey!!!!! You can't make this stuff up!!
The bird at this point, is at the door, knocking and knocking very softly saying "come out, come out wherever you are...."
Turkey dinner, anyone?

 

[007Sean]

Well, move to next chapter. I left for my exercise class today and this turkey, right outside the front door, decides that I am not actually his/her (now not sure that this is not the young tom) adoptive birth mother, but an enemy of some hideous kind. Now I should preface this by saying that I was wearing a light and dark grey puffy jacket at this point which may have made this idiot think I was another large turkey. The walkway from my house to my car is about 60 feet approx. This bird came running at me flapping his wings and making this really weird noise, at which point I started running backwards, towards the car, ninja leaping and kicking and screaming at this creature that was trying to kill me! My oldest son, 16, who has pyjama day today, heard me screaming and came running out in his bright blue PJ onesie (with monster feet attached), and started gobbling and charging at the bird. At this point in time, I had made it to the car, in hysterics watching my very tall, very slim boy running away to the house in his blue onesie being pursued by a VERY upset turkey!!!!! You can't make this stuff up!!
The bird at this point, is at the door, knocking and knocking very softly saying "come out, come out wherever you are...."
Turkey dinner, anyone?

That's crazy but not out of the realm of what turkeys can do! Who knows what their thinking sometimes.

 

[aart]

 

[WVduckchick]

Well, move to next chapter. I left for my exercise class today and this turkey, right outside the front door, decides that I am not actually his/her (now not sure that this is not the young tom) adoptive birth mother, but an enemy of some hideous kind. Now I should preface this by saying that I was wearing a light and dark grey puffy jacket at this point which may have made this idiot think I was another large turkey. The walkway from my house to my car is about 60 feet approx. This bird came running at me flapping his wings and making this really weird noise, at which point I started running backwards, towards the car, ninja leaping and kicking and screaming at this creature that was trying to kill me! My oldest son, 16, who has pyjama day today, heard me screaming and came running out in his bright blue PJ onesie (with monster feet attached), and started gobbling and charging at the bird. At this point in time, I had made it to the car, in hysterics watching my very tall, very slim boy running away to the house in his blue onesie being pursued by a VERY upset turkey!!!!! You can't make this stuff up!!
The bird at this point, is at the door, knocking and knocking very softly saying "come out, come out wherever you are...."
Turkey dinner, anyone?

Yer killin me woman!

 

[oregonkat]

Yer killin me woman!

IKR!! My husband encountered the beast when he came home yesterday afternoon. He got out of his truck and went around to the passenger side and opened the door. He said "I was getting stuff off the passenger seat and I looked and saw the turkey through the window walking towards me. Then I heard this hissing sound, kind of like the sound of the dinosaur with the spitting thing in Jurassic Park. I looked around the door and saw this thing wings up, neck puffed up and back like he was going to strike at me, which he then did!" The hubster then leaps backwards slams the door and manages to give this turkey a smart kick in the chest shouting "Oh, Oh you wanna piece of this do ya, huh, huh?" and apparently the turkey did because he just kept coming at him so hubby really booted him and he finally backed off.

Haven't seen him this morning!