Turkey Talk for 2014

[TeaChick]

Congrats on your new fluffy butt! She is adorable

Thank you!

I feather sexed and it looks like a pullet, so I'm happy. I'll keep it either way; can't help it, my first hatchling!!!

 

[TeaChick]

JWEBB: wicked looking dog in your avi.

 

[TeaChick]

I heard some turkeys behind my yard in the woods this morning when I went to take care of the animals.
Does anyone know anything about catching wild turkeys to keep?

 

[chicken pickin]

I heard some turkeys behind my yard in the woods this morning when I went to take care of the animals.
Does anyone know anything about catching wild turkeys to keep?

Some one asked this a little while back on the 2013 turkey thread. I don't agree with and am actually against the catching and keeping of wild turkey. For 1 they are very different than the domesticated turkeys we keep in the aspect of caring for needs. They have a very very different diet than we can offer and likely wont handle confinement after you catch them etc. For 2 it is likely illegal in many or all states. And for 3 there is such a wide variety of domesticated heritage turkeys to choose from and many places to acquire hatching eggs and poults.

 

[K Epp]

Its a Federal Offence...

 

[JWEBB]

Statistically only about a 1/4 would come out the Oregon gray phenotype with this cross.
The only way to increase that on the next generations is to breed only the bronze based ones together.

I see! thank you. I can just almost grasp this I think. I think I would like to work on the Oregon Gray. I'll talk to you more about what types to start with. Super interested in this.

My first turkey eggs are Blue Slates and Royal Palms incubating. Was tickled to see what happens when those are together in your previous post. Very exciting.

 

[JWEBB]

JWEBB: wicked looking dog in your avi.

hehe thank you! thats my boy Logan, hes prob a pit boxer cross no way to really know...he is about 4 now. got him from a shelter in NYC he was all starved, messed up and on death row.. he had motor oil all over him and they said he was brown.. LOL no hes blue under all the oil and dirt. I tried to rehome him last thing I wanted was another dog but he looks like the devil and nobody wanted him. I had four American bulldogs (my fav guardian breed) in the last decade or more but they all got old and passed on, so we kept the big goofball....acts like a puppy and is very kind and innocent with other animals and people thinks everyone is his long lost best friend.

 

[JWEBB]

Turkey eggs are eaten at least here at my house. They are delicious, my favorite kind of eggs. I would choose turkey eggs over chicken eggs any day.

A lot of people don't eat them only because laying season is short, so most eggs are for incubating to hatch out poults.

I can understand that! more poults is a good thing

 

[sonderah]

I have a question. My hen is laying in the woods. I know where her nest is. It has 3-4 eggs in it. I know she is waiting to get "enough" before she sets. But it is still below freezing at night, so they r not likely to be viable. If I stuck about 10 chicken eggs in there, do you think the next time he went to lay, if the 15-16 were enough, that she would set? Or would she know they are not hers and abandon that nest?

 

[DraigAthar]

So I'm having fun with photos like these:



More here, haha:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/857759/public-poultry-shaming