Back from a short vacation in Oklahoma!! Great seeing family and watching my Nephew tie the knot with his long time GF
BR hen sitting out in the old brooder box was never able to stay long enough to get a successful hatch, I brought three eggs in and placed them in the incubator, one survived and once it internally piped I took it out to a broody chicken that I had been fighting for a few weeks, poult hatched yesterday and caught a glimpse of this this morning peeking out from under the hen... We dismantled the BR's nest.. This egg was 9 days late!!! The BR hen is now laying eggs in the corner of the main coop... Blah... goofy turkey!
BR hen that was sitting her clutch in the coop ended up with 4 eggs, on the date they were due to hatch I walked out and found her on another nest, when I checked hers one of the poults had started to zip but looks to have gotten stuck and died, I took the remaining three in and placed them in the incubator.. Two hatched and I returned them to the hen, she accepted them and has them out in the run with the rest of the flock, that is when she can pull them away from yet another chicken momma that hatched two turkeys the week before (she kinda adopted the newbies lol)
Our little farm is in broody overload, before we left I had promised my neighbor I would not have any broody chickens, I had so many chickens in broody jail I ran out of room and told her to just kick them off the nest every time she went out.. lol.. I came home to 5 broodys!!! I am letting them sit as I ordered 3 bronze turkeys from my feed store, they should be here July 28th, Anyone had luck allowing hens to raise them?
BR hen sitting out in the old brooder box was never able to stay long enough to get a successful hatch, I brought three eggs in and placed them in the incubator, one survived and once it internally piped I took it out to a broody chicken that I had been fighting for a few weeks, poult hatched yesterday and caught a glimpse of this this morning peeking out from under the hen... We dismantled the BR's nest.. This egg was 9 days late!!! The BR hen is now laying eggs in the corner of the main coop... Blah... goofy turkey!
BR hen that was sitting her clutch in the coop ended up with 4 eggs, on the date they were due to hatch I walked out and found her on another nest, when I checked hers one of the poults had started to zip but looks to have gotten stuck and died, I took the remaining three in and placed them in the incubator.. Two hatched and I returned them to the hen, she accepted them and has them out in the run with the rest of the flock, that is when she can pull them away from yet another chicken momma that hatched two turkeys the week before (she kinda adopted the newbies lol)
Our little farm is in broody overload, before we left I had promised my neighbor I would not have any broody chickens, I had so many chickens in broody jail I ran out of room and told her to just kick them off the nest every time she went out.. lol.. I came home to 5 broodys!!! I am letting them sit as I ordered 3 bronze turkeys from my feed store, they should be here July 28th, Anyone had luck allowing hens to raise them?
Rouge turkey has found another nesting site, she joined a few chickens in laying in the burn pile (good thing we cant burn until Oct now 
) Going to allow her to try again I suppose, nothing else to do but eat the darn eggs anyways lol
