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

[Arielle]

Have you had time to eat????? I learned, when the kids were very little, to feed me first and take care of me first, then I could take care of my kids and family better. WE get so busy taking care of everyone else . . . .

I need to cull a hen today-- she wont stay put in the new pen with all the boys. She wants to cruise the farm with her buddies . . . . oh maybe . . . I can move her to the front yard and clip her wing . . . . though freshtrukey for dinner sounds good . . .

 

[chicken pickin]

I did have a quick bowl of cereal many hours ago when I got my oldest up for school. But I think I need to go make a quick egg omelet before running out the door for work

So I decided on scrambled eggs mixed with cream cheese, feta cheese, diced tomatoes and a little onion salt. I would have never thought to add cream cheese or feta but oh my it was DELICIOUS!!!

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

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.

We haven't lost a single calf in either of the past two years (YAY!

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The goal here is Daschund cattle - we don't sell 'into the system' and the future of cattle racing doesn't look bright, so long legs are an expense, not an unfair profit. Ideally, our brood cows will eventually weigh about 800 and wean 750 - and we know it can be done, because the dam of (cow) #904 in pic did it four years running. Right now, brood cows average about 1050, brought down a bit by Dolly & Fancy lines that go ~8. We're working on it!

 

[JennaLynn122]

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 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.

that makes me a lot less nervous about introducing them with the big girls. My babies States outside for the first time last night but still had the lamp. Im wondering how they would do without it since the don't even use it inside unless its like 40 outside (during the tornado storms the other day and one day after) and that's justly cause we don't really use our a/c til summer and we don't turn the heater on til it gets pretty cold.

 

[Sueg4332]

I really need to learn how to take pics during the day but i added a 14ft by 10ft rectangle to my garden area which was already 9ft by 8ft I should have plenty of room for the ducks I'll be trying to hatch out. But i still have to add the wood and wire i have some wire down right now to keep my dogs out of my garden but I'll have a month to finish so I'm not worried.
I added a door (it does open) but it does look weird with no other wood in the area right now

The original line was on the left of this tree

Right side of the peach tree w\ wire place holders

Pretty much the same thing but from the side



CAUTION: Weak stomach peoples look away

Before you continue this doesn't "hurt" as bad as it looks and i don't have an HD camera thank goodness

This is what happens when your verbally fighting with someone while holding a pole in place and trying to use a sledgehammer to drive the poles at the same time

AKA: a 20 pound sledgehammer to hand is a bad thing

That makes me hurt for you. must be so very sore.....

 

[uphilljill]

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[uphilljill]

I moved my 7 CdM MW turkey eggs from the incubator to a broody hen last weekend and am happy to report that 5 have hatched so far!

Will get a pic as soon as mama lets them out for a bit.

 

[SilkieSensation]

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 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.

that makes me a lot less nervous about introducing them with the big girls. My babies States outside for the first time last night but still had the lamp. Im wondering how they would do without it since the don't even use it inside unless its like 40 outside (during the tornado storms the other day and one day after) and that's justly cause we don't really use our a/c til summer and we don't turn the heater on til it gets pretty cold.

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I have week old babies in the garage right now who will lose their lamp during the day in a few days & at night in about a week after that.

 

[JennaLynn122]

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I have week old babies in the garage right now who will lose their lamp during the day in a few days & at night in about a week after that.

these are my first babies and I was told do start at 95 which they seemed to think was too hot. The actually leveled out on day 1 at 85 and to lower the temp 5 degrees per week. They didn't like that idea either. They were at room temp in a week and a half. I did have the light off all the time in the house until the storms hit and the temp went down for a few days. And when I checked on them last bight only a few were sleeping near the lamp. And low was about 58-60.

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

I had chick #3 hatch at about 0030 this morning and woke up to #4 halfway dry and #5 just hatched but he has an exposed brain (I think). He's fighting so I can't bring myself to cull him just yet. I'll get pictures in a bit. The two ducks are chilling in their eggs like ducks do.