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

[Arielle]

3 sulmtalers from shipped eggs hatched yesterday and are in the brooder with the other chicks and poults!!!!! 7 others started and quit. 8 never started. Good thing I have another 12 cooking!! lol

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

"Bucket" -- an inspired name no doubt!! Those folks got a well trained cow!! YOu had a delightful beginning to your life with cattle. ( I don't really hate angus-- but the label at the meat counter does bring up crazy feelings about that cow.) I envy that you had someone to teach you how to properly handle big cow, because yes they can kill us. I have horses . . . .they can be dangerous too.

It was certainly optimistic - part of being young & ignorant, LOL. My only 'big animal' experience before that was horses, and that was limited. My parents took in a pair of rescues after I'd officially moved out; I met Doc & Donna, but had very little interaction with them and no responsibilities and I worked at Jefferson Downs as a hot walker one year. The latter gave some pretty good clues about the danger possibilities of horses.
I kind of have the same feelings about roosters that you express about the cow... Mum kept chickens, and when I was 4-5, she let my older brother keep a rooster 'as a pet'. He was not a good pet owner, and eventually there was a baseball bat kept beside the door, because in order to leave the house or let visitors get out of their car, someone had to render the roo unconscious. Daddy worked on the boats & wasn't home for months at a time; the next time he came home was shortly after the roo had done a number on my sister & the roo 'went to detour'. I can't deal with a mean roo - I won't. Sitting here right now hoping the RIR eggs hatching next week yield a good one, because their 'perfect specimen' sire is in the refrigerator for temperament reasons only!

 

[Arielle]

Quote: Like stallions, and bulls I image, the boys need thoughtful handling and to teach them their place in the heirarchy. Recently someone-- BEkissed? -- posted a great thread on training roosters. Much like a dog, a human needs to talk rooster talk and become the dominant rooster. It is about cunning, not hitting. I learned on the dogs how to act like the top dog-- if rooties see a chance to move up they will try. Very trying dogs. lol I espect roosters are the same. I push my roosters out of the way, if they come at me, then the push is rough, and then make him run from me. Had a bugger start at me today-- not a bad boy so his behavior surprized me.

I do have an attack SS, or at times he does, NONE of his sons hae attacked. SO you might have good luck too.

 

[Wisher1000]

Those bad boys always learn to behave themselves in the freezer..........j/s....................

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

Like stallions, and bulls I image, the boys need thoughtful handling and to teach them their place in the heirarchy. Recently someone-- BEkissed? -- posted a great thread on training roosters. Much like a dog, a human needs to talk rooster talk and become the dominant rooster. It is about cunning, not hitting. I learned on the dogs how to act like the top dog-- if rooties see a chance to move up they will try. Very trying dogs. lol I espect roosters are the same. I push my roosters out of the way, if they come at me, then the push is rough, and then make him run from me. Had a bugger start at me today-- not a bad boy so his behavior surprized me.

I do have an attack SS, or at times he does, NONE of his sons hae attacked. SO you might have good luck too.

I'm going to try to look that thread up. The other roos *at least* ignore me, the BR & WR are actually kinda sweet (less wimmens?) The RIR SOB was determined to attack me - would beat himself bloody against his pen if I stayed near him, and wasn't very kind to the hens either. Hoping one of the future sons inherits his physical without his mental/emotional makeup. Time will tell.

Those bad boys always learn to behave themselves in the freezer..........j/s....................

Yes, amazing how that works out - problem is, the plucker fingers aren't ordered yet, and I can't ask myherowhoownstheplucker to haul it over for one bird... and I'm a one armed gimp ATM. Went better than I expected, though.

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

Have concluded that my "WTH are they, they aren't silkies" birds from TSC appear to be a silkie/polish cross. Le sigh. Should have known better!

 

[Wisher1000]

Better late than never!! I just candled and put turkey eggs into lockdown in the hatcher. There were 16 in the bator, and 12 were viable. Two never started, one was growing bacteria in patches, and one looked like it quit about half way through the second week. The rest look on track, but some have smallish cells. I saw movement in about three or four but I didn't look long at each, just lit them up and put them either in the hatcher or the garbage.

I don't even know who these turkeys belong to............

 

[chicken pickin]

So I am absolutely horrified! I occasionally sell chicks chickens and eggs from my home. Well I always let all my customers know that I am NPIP and I practice a strict biosecurity and ask them to wait at the bottom of the driveway and I will bring them what they are picking up. Well today I was selling a chicken and the guy gets here and pulls out a huge cage of his flock of chickens and just puts them in my driveway.

WHAT!? First of all who packs up their chickens to go pick up a new chicken at someones house. And second WHO PACKS UP THEIR CHICKENS AND BRINGS THEM TO SOMEONES HOUSE!!!

I thought he was just taking the cage out to put the new chicken in but NO he takes them out and then sits out the back of his station wagon while his chickens are pooping all over my driveway and wants to make bizarre small talk I finally told him that his cage of chickens on my property was making me really nervous and to put them away.

I am beyond mad. Sorry if this sounds silly. I just needed to vent

 

[JennaLynn122]

So I am absolutely horrified! I occasionally sell chicks chickens and eggs from my home. Well I always let all my customers know that I am NPIP and I practice a strict biosecurity and ask them to wait at the bottom of the driveway and I will bring them what they are picking up. Well today I was selling a chicken and the guy gets here and pulls out a huge cage of his flock of chickens and just puts them in my driveway.

WHAT!? First of all who packs up their chickens to go pick up a new chicken at someones house. And second WHO PACKS UP THEIR CHICKENS AND BRINGS THEM TO SOMEONES HOUSE!!!

I thought he was just taking the cage out to put the new chicken in but NO he takes them out and then sits out the back of his station wagon while his chickens are pooping all over my driveway and wants to make bizarre small talk I finally told him that his cage of chickens on my property was making me really nervous and to put them away.

I am beyond mad. Sorry if this sounds silly. I just needed to vent

I would be livid. My chickens are my little feathered children lol. and eventually partially my livelihood. So yeah I would probably have had a worse reaction to that. As soon as the box-o-birds hit my driveway he would have been putting them back, taking the poo with him and leaving with a boot up his you know what.

 

[ronott1]

So I am absolutely horrified! I occasionally sell chicks chickens and eggs from my home. Well I always let all my customers know that I am NPIP and I practice a strict biosecurity and ask them to wait at the bottom of the driveway and I will bring them what they are picking up. Well today I was selling a chicken and the guy gets here and pulls out a huge cage of his flock of chickens and just puts them in my driveway.

WHAT!? First of all who packs up their chickens to go pick up a new chicken at someones house. And second WHO PACKS UP THEIR CHICKENS AND BRINGS THEM TO SOMEONES HOUSE!!!

I thought he was just taking the cage out to put the new chicken in but NO he takes them out and then sits out the back of his station wagon while his chickens are pooping all over my driveway and wants to make bizarre small talk I finally told him that his cage of chickens on my property was making me really nervous and to put them away.

I am beyond mad. Sorry if this sounds silly. I just needed to vent

This is why I meed people at the Grocery Store parking lot instead of my house!

Ugg!