~*Third Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatch-Athon*~ all poultry welcome!

[Arielle]

Quote: YUM!!!

I made a high protein snack of melted butter, cream, EGG, and almond flour and vanilla creme whey protein. It takes like a boxed cake mix BEFORE baking!!!!

3 am on Cinco De Mayo and I cant believe I actually hit the mark... One Turkey out and 6 more pips... Pictures later today... Turkeys are so darn cute!!

 

[SilkieSensation]

I have (3) almost 3 week old chicks and (13) 4.5 week old chicks... they live in separate brooders but right next to each other and they have been brought outside together and players on our floor together. What do you guys think about integrating them? Or are the 3 younger ones still too little?
  Also, all of them are at the same temperature on the light so that wouldn't be an issue. For some reason my 3 little ones decided that they didn't need the light so hot very long. It now only gets turned on at night. They are all outside now at 85° and panting and hold their wings out when they find a sun spot

I saw you already tossed these guys together. I have mixed chicks 2-8 weeks old, adding every 1-2 weeks & they all do fine. I have to make sure the smallest ones are agile enough to get out of the big ones' way, but usually no problems. I just pitched a batch of 25 3-8 week olds out in my main coop a couple days ago. We hadc2 pevking injuries from my turkey tom grabbing 2 chicks & 3 casualties from the old door my SO laid across unstable supports collapsing after I told him it wasn't going to work & he did it anyway (Men! *SMACK!!!*) Overall, no problems between the 25 babies & the 24 older chickens & 6 call ducks alreafy in the pen. The tom was the only problem & he got over it quickly & no problems since.

I really should know better by now....men are useless  i was outside trying to make room for the new ducks ill  be trying to hatch out and i was in the process of putting down support posts for the wire (which had to be done with crappy gezebo ploes), my dad who wanted to expand the garden area for the ducks in the first place. Didn't want to help do it and then has the nerve to get in a fight we me about globalists. while i'm working the sledgehammer and i bought the hammer down on one of my kuckles (all he had to do was hold the pole while i drove them in even that was too hard) the docter said it wasn't broken. But that *** Started the whole "it's man's work and that's why you got hurt" crap on me at the docters office. Like he was trying to make me out to be some stupid highland park wuss in front of the staff. I came home and i'm mostly finshed. ill put up some pics later on today after the swelling goes down

I had a father like that. Nothing I ever did was good enough & he was always too lazy to help with anything but always running his mouth. I moved out as soon as I could. The good thing I learned from growing upceith him is this: Never wait on a man to do something you can get done faster & usually better by doing it yourself. I have become very self sufficient over the years.

 

[SilkieSensation]

My CDM hatch has begun. Woke to 2 Poliskies (Polish/Silkies) out this morning & hearing more peeping from the bator. Have another 10 polish x eggs, 4 ee bantam, 6 ancona, 3 turkey & 6 coturnix that made it to lockdoown. I'm going to be gone most of the dsy today, so hopefully I'll come home to a bator full of babies.

 

[Arielle]

My CDM hatch has begun. Woke to 2 Poliskies (Polish/Silkies) out this morning & hearing more peeping from the bator. Have another 10 polish x eggs, 4 ee bantam, 6 ancona, 3 turkey & 6 coturnix that made it to lockdoown. I'm going to be gone most of the dsy today, so hopefully I'll come home to a bator full of babies.

lol--love the term!!

Hope youdo come home to a bator full of fluff butts.

 

[SilkieSensation]

lol--love the term!! 

Hope youdo come home to a bator full of fluff butts.

These are the 3 I hatched last week. Momma is a splash polish. Daddy is a blue partridge silkie. Babies are dark skinned, feather footed, smooth feathred & splash colored. Toe counts vary. The 2 new babies both have 10. The 3 here have 8, 9 & 10.

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

Lol's it's ok nothing was broken and the docter was able to put the flap of skin on the kunkcle back on (he used glue of all things)

Super glue's first use was actually as a medical adhesive, back when it was only available to the military. I remember when my foster dad & a friend of his got their hands on a bottle - it was a fun-filled evening for five, seeing what it could do... and trying to figure out what could dissolve it! I use it for repairing badly torn chickens sometimes.

@Arielle - they aren't really; these are Angus/Galloway crosses, and hit the ground at about 60lbs. The pure Angus usually are 70+ and have been over 90lbs; these little guys are MUCH easier on the cows! We haven't had to assist a birth since we brought in the Galloways, and this is a VERY good thing.


I had not-very-loud cheeping when I went to bed last night; there's an external pip this morning. Day 21 began at midnight, so they're right on time!

 

[Arielle]

Quote:
These are the 3 I hatched last week. Momma is a splash polish. Daddy is a blue partridge silkie. Babies are dark skinned, feather footed, smooth feathred & splash colored. Toe counts vary. The 2 new babies both have 10. The 3 here have 8, 9 & 10.
Darling chicks!

Blues are one of my favorite colors, right behind buff!

Quote: THey are far bigger than chicks, ducklings and lambs!! lol THough all my foals top 100#

Easy births are a must! A saved calf is worth a lot of money. Smaller is fine, theywill grow fast especially with the corss breeding.

 

[Arielle]

I have 2 poults in the brooder learning how to get around!! Whoot!!

3 more in the incubator drying off-- even a good bath did not clean enough of the dried albumen off them. Culled one who's insides fell outside. BUT more are hatching!!

 

[Arielle]

Time for breakfast--- scrambled eggs for the 26 buckeyes and then for me. With Feta and olives and scallions. Gotta get my onions in!!! Maybe onions and mushroom omlet for lunch . . .

 

[chicken pickin]

Time for breakfast--- scrambled eggs for the 26 buckeyes and then for me. With Feta and olives and scallions. Gotta get my onions in!!! Maybe onions and mushroom omlet for lunch . . .

Sounds YUMMY!!! Your making me hungry now