Turkeys For 2013

[kuntrygirl]

Where can one buy tylan

Tractor Supply or any other feed store.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Went to check on the turkeys that were sitting on a gazillion eggs. I found a 3rd hen had joined the bunch but guess what????? ALL OF THE EGGS ARE GONE !!!!!!!!!


Some varmint (2 legged or 4 legged) went there and got all of the eggs. Not sure if it was a raccoon, opossum, snake or human. I don't think it was a person because no one knew they were there. And my neighbor would not have take any eggs. She is a family friend for 40 years. Oh well. Now I have to go and get them and bring them back home to break them of being broody.

OH no I am so sorry for you and your hens, I hope they do lay more eggs and that varmint gets what is coming to it.
The lady I was talking to wants the poults anyway and I actually sold them to someone else before she committed and she is on my wait list.  I don't think she bought what that guy was selling My bourbon red hen is a doll baby, though I don't have a Tom NONE of my Turkeys are aggressive and like you said they show off all the time for me. I don't know if he mistreats his animals or not, I can't imagine why a turkey would get aggressive.

Thanks.

I was thinking that it's probably that family of mama and baby oposums that my neighbor RAISED and allowed to live in her barn last year. They are probably coming "back home".

 

[Bitterroot]

Went to check on the turkeys that were sitting on a gazillion eggs. I found a 3rd hen had joined the bunch but guess what????? ALL OF THE EGGS ARE GONE !!!!!!!!!

Some varmint (2 legged or 4 legged) went there and got all of the eggs. Not sure if it was a raccoon, opossum, snake or human. I don't think it was a person because no one knew they were there. And my neighbor would not have take any eggs. She is a family friend for 40 years. Oh well. Now I have to go and get them and bring them back home to break them of being broody.

Sorry you lost all those eggs. Bad things always seem to happen to good people. At least your girls are okay and can lay you another big pile of them.

 

[Arielle]

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You can order on line, too. I use First State. Our local feed stores do not carry such things; however TSC recently put in a number of stores in Mass and I drive an hour to get to the closest one.

 

[Arielle]

LIke your idea of paying it forward Kuntrygirl-- hard to know for sure what happened to the eggs. We don't have such big snakes here, That must be one FULL snake.

ALl my hens are fenced in and in coops for the night. Trade offs-- I get to clean their coops!

On a bettter note---

The sweetgrass are laying, just one of the 3 hens, though since I have only found one egg at a time; 3 of the Bourbons are laying, dropped on of the eggs, uggghhh. . . . oh well, more tomorrow.

Was hoping to process two today, need the super sized canning pot . . . it is too big to hide for long!

 

[Sally8]

This probably isn't the time to share this (My Chuck is a very sweet boy. He loves to eat yogurt out of my hand and will follow me everywhere all fanned out, making that spitting sound and drumming) but when I was a young girl, we lived on a large farm and the door to the basement of the barn was only about 3 feet tall. You had to flip the latch up and push the door in. Well, my Dad was always buying things at the auction (Like the time he bought 10 acres of standing field corn, I haven't forgotten how cold it was hand picking that corn!) and he bought an adult tom. Pure white and gorgeous. His only flaw was that he remained hidden until my sister or I would go to the barn and then he lit out , his neck stretched out running after us. I can't remember him ever catching us but he must have or we never would have run ourselves. My Dad has been gone well over 30 years but I can still hear him roaring with laughter as my sister or I would run as fast as we could hoping we could flip that latch and slam that door before he got us. THEN IT HAPPENED TO DAD, ONCE. I don't remember Dad taking care of the turkey but Mom says we ate him and he was so tough to eat.

Over on another thread, they've been talking about putting together a first aid kit for their chickens. It probably wouldn't hurt for any of us. I don't have Tylan but do have Duramycin. I just had to buy vet wrap for splayed legs on one of my chicks. And it worked! I seem to battle mites, as soon as it warms up enough I need to really clean my chicken and turkey coops out and white wash them. Below is Chuck and Rosie.

 

[joshm97]

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Sorry to hear about your poults Farmer

I have a question and a little vent. I belong to a facebook poultry BST page locally and I posted my Red Bronze poults on there to sell, someone was intersted and wanted to know if Turkeys were aggressive. ALL my turkeys are puppy dogs so I said No turkeys are very friendly. I had someone chime in and say that Borboun Red turkeys were very aggressive and that he was not trying to interrupt a sale but he did not want to see any young children get hurt. He said Toms especially were mean. Is this true? I am pretty shocked at this statement, he said he has been raising Turkeys for 25 years. I just have never heard of turkeys being aggressive and I know kuntrygirl that is your breed and I've never heard you say they were mean. I'm a bit offended he would go onto a public page and call me out like that but maybe he knows something I don't?

 

obviously he does not raise them like you do so he must have been a very ignorant turkey farmer for 25 years

 

[joshm97]

Jus

Sorry to hear about your poults Farmer

I have a question and a little vent. I belong to a facebook poultry BST page locally and I posted my Red Bronze poults on there to sell, someone was intersted and wanted to know if Turkeys were aggressive. ALL my turkeys are puppy dogs so I said No turkeys are very friendly. I had someone chime in and say that Borboun Red turkeys were very aggressive and that he was not trying to interrupt a sale but he did not want to see any young children get hurt. He said Toms especially were mean. Is this true? I am pretty shocked at this statement, he said he has been raising Turkeys for 25 years. I just have never heard of turkeys being aggressive and I know kuntrygirl that is your breed and I've never heard you say they were mean. I'm a bit offended he would go onto a public page and call me out like that but maybe he knows something I don't?

 

Im new to turkeys and I raise Bourbon Reds, I only had 5 so they are they only ones I can compare to. Raising them they were fantastic just like you said puppy dogs. I have 2 hens and had 3 toms. About a month and a half ago one of my Toms seemed to veiw me as a threat and he started getting a little mean. He would lower his head and run real fast at me as though he was going to nip me in the legs or feet. He did this daily for about 3 weeks until we decided to process him for Easter dinner. Turkeys are animals just like anything else and if they feel threatened well they will defend what they think is theirs. I do blame myself because the 3 Toms were sparring one day and it was getting very vicious and I tried to intervene. SO Since that day I think he saw me as another sparring Tom and it doesnt help that my only squatting hen ONLY squats for me. I was a threat to him. So I do not veiw turkeys as aggressive but there may be one in a bunch that may challenge you.

just like wild turkeys heritage birds feel threatened by the violet spectrum( reds blues purples etc) my jakes love me and follow me every where.. But if I where my blue jacket out in the morning the will gobble and make fighting purrs at me... Make sure that you where the right colors or you might just end up with a spur in your chest... I bet that the turkey farmer from Facebook just wore the wrong colors... It will change threre mood like the weather in New England

 

[chickadoodles]

Very pretty birds Sally8

 

[TexasLisa]

Chickadoodles, your avatar cracks me up every time I see it!

Lisa