The Old Folks Home

[CapricornFarm]

Getting close to finishing the packing crate coop.

Door is on.

Nest box is on. Installed low for broodies.

 

[Alaskan]

Getting close to finishing the packing crate coop.
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Door is on.
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Nest box is on. Installed low for broodies.

Very nice!

 

[Peep_Show]

Sounds like the psycho turkey is testing the path to her destiny.

[Turkey curry gets my vote.]

 

[perchie.girl]

turkey tacos.....

 

[pennyJo1960]

I like turkey with noodles also thunder roar here been for like 15 minutes so far

 

[superchemicalgirl]

She's ancient though likely will be a tough old bird.
But I am done with her hormones. I've been nice, I've let her hatch.

 

[microchick]

micro, Get dried Basil, and sprinkle around the coop, and run area. Flies hate it, and it doesn't hurt the chickens if they eat some of it. It leaves the coop, and run smelling good too. I was skeptical the first time I tried it. Does it kill all the files immediately? No. But by the next day, you will notice a radical reduction in the number of flies. In a couple days, flies won't be a problem anymore. When you first start using it, reapply it in a few days. Usually after that, once a week will keep the coop fly free until conditions change, and they're no longer a problem.

Will fresh basil work? I have something like 7 or 8 plants of it right now. When I dead head it I just toss the blossoms away. Yikes! I could have used them!

Got our pasture mowed 100%. Probably raking today. It looks so different but it is so much fun watching the big percherons working the mowers and rakes.

We let the pups out in the open field. It was like watching billiard balls scatter...until they found the horse poop then it was party time. I saw a Meme the other day about cattle dogs that said 'we don't just roll on horse poop. Sometimes we eat it too!' So very true. DH warned me not to let any of them 'kiss' me for a while.

90 degrees here today and our first week without any rain in the forecast.

 

[microchick]

She's fine.
But my patience for her is wearing thin. After she monkey stomped her baby and I took care of the carcass, she went right back into the coop to lay on eggs.
She did not take well to me forcing her out of the nest today to clean it out (there was a very nasty rotten egg smell coming from it).

In hindsight, I should have known better.

In foresight, I brought a 2x4 with me for self defense.

Note: no turkeys were harmed, I simply used the 2x4 as a barrier.

Gift her to some brave soul with a lot of birds so one more with a rotten attitude won't matter. You could always have her butchered and ground into turkey burgers or make jerky out of her.

I'm putting one of my old hens in the crockpot today, or at least the breast, thigh and leg meat. DH asked me if I could really eat one of them and I told him sure, all I have to do is remember all the anguish and tears they cost me and I would enjoy every mouthful. At least I can get stock for the freezer to make soup and casseroles out of.

I let two of my broodies with chicks loose in order to clean a pen and they spent most of their time trying to kill one another. Chicks were screaming and running for cover. One of the hens was violent all though her incubating her eggs and I have the beak marks to prove it on my arms. DH told me he hope I'm banding her so if she goes broody again I can discourage her. In her credit, I watched her dispatch mice that invaded her pen. Of course I had to fish them out of the pen so the success was tainted by my arm and hand being attacked.

She's a wonderful mother, just nasty personality.

 

[getaclue]

micro, I have not tried the fresh, so I can not attest to it's capabilities, but you might give it a try. If the fresh works, please let me know. If it doesn't seem to work too well, since you're growing it, you might want to dry some out. It could well be that drying it, helps concentrate some of it's properties, so it works better than fresh, however, the fresh may work just as well. I simply don't know, since I've never tried the fresh.

 

[Peep_Show]

In her credit, I watched her dispatch mice that invaded her pen. Of course I had to fish them out of the pen so the success was tainted by my arm and hand being attacked.
She's a wonderful mother, just nasty personality.

Sell her as a mouser!

My chickens are worthless in that regard and it's a banner year for mouse production in these parts. I have one that will grudgingly take a pink. Sheesh....