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[superchemicalgirl]

I'm afraid after starving herself at least 8 if not 10 months, she's not got much left than giblets.

 

[chickadoodles]

I'm afraid after starving herself at least 8 if not 10 months, she's not got much left than giblets.

Maybe you could get BF to put her in with the goats for a couple of months.
Maybe that could break her mood. I had to move several of mine to a new location to break them. Not being mean but she is starving herself.

 

[drumstick diva]

The kindest thing would be to put out a "contract on broody - this could go on forever. I can picture her skeleton sitting on an empty nest, with cobwebs all over her.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Just in time for Halloween, Diva.

I'll be interested to hear what BF does the next week. Just yesterday he was thinking about putting her and the chicks into a dog kennel. I guess he doesn't listen when I speak about losing digits and my face.

He's welcome to think he's smarter than the turkey. It's his turn.

 

[Beer can]

Scg I have no clue about your turkey mom. But this may just be how it is for the way we are hatching and selling poultry. Like many said on the Heritage thread the broodiness is being bred out of them and they are confused or it just is not there at all.
Just so sad. thank goodness you were able to get the chicks out of her nest without her attacking you again and for your broody hen taking them.

Old guy I work with said the same thing, been bred out of them. Said they might go broody but they don't do it right. (Maybe they need to be calibrated )
He has a egg business and hatches his own replacents with broodies. Said he hatches a hundred or more a yr and when he gets a good broody they are the only ones that get to live past their egg laying prime, keeps them till they croak.
I asked him a few yrs ago about mareks vaccine, he said he never has. He vaccinates all his chicks himself for newcastle and fowl poxs .
I figured they must have been something more prevalent back decades ago when he started.

 

[chickadoodles]

Old guy I work with said the same thing, been bred out of them. Said they might go broody but they don't do it right. (Maybe they need to be calibrated )
He has a egg business and hatches his own replacents with broodies. Said he hatches a hundred or more a yr and when he gets a good broody they are the only ones that get to live past their egg laying prime, keeps them till they croak.
I asked him a few yrs ago about mareks vaccine, he said he never has. He vaccinates all his chicks himself for newcastle and fowl poxs .
I figured they must have been something more prevalent back decades ago when he started.

I only had poultry for a short time. But I did quite research for a year before I bought any poultry. I was very interested in turkey long before I bought any and I enjoyed them immensely. I had 3 Buff Orpington hens that would go broody every year one at a time. They were wonderful momma's and I had another hen that hatched chicks and she abandoned hers pretty early. But so much of what I read stated the same thing that breeders had bred the broodiness out of nearly all the breeds. I guess Silkies are the exception. I did not want any of them due to the fact they would have been mud balls around here. lol None of my turkey were able to hatch any eggs. I hatched a bunch and most I had hand tamed before they went to new homes. The new people were amazed they knew commands already. hahaa I guess I treated mine like puppies. lol
Much of what I read up on turkey was written by Mr. Frank Reese love the fact he truly enjoy's raising them.

 

[chickadoodles]

Just in time for Halloween, Diva.

I'll be interested to hear what BF does the next week. Just yesterday he was thinking about putting her and the chicks into a dog kennel. I guess he doesn't listen when I speak about losing digits and my face.

He's welcome to think he's smarter than the turkey. It's his turn.

I hope he can out wit her and not get hurt. I did get some Sweetgrass turkey that would never let me do anything with them. I sold them. I had plenty.

 

[getaclue]

I've never raised turkeys, but can't you break their broodiness similar to the way you would with a chicken?

 

[perchie.girl]

latest effort... a practice piece

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• perchie.girl
• Jun 2, 2017
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[pertnear09]

latest effort... a practice piece

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• perchie.girl
• Jun 2, 2017
• 3

Mighty purty.