Turkeys For 2013

[Arielle]

Quote: You can use keifer also to start it. Sonme use fresh cows milk, maybe fresh goat milk could work.

WOrth hunting down some good vinegar. With the FF methods only a laittle is needed to get going.

 

[aztuffenuff]

YEAH about some pictures!! My poults are growing too!! They look like they are growing every day!!!

And they are eating like horses!!!

Oh and drinking water like all get out!! We had 100 degrees with 3 % humidity here. I laugh when people say the heat is not so bad...it is a dry heat!!

When you walk out the door it feels like you are walking into an oven!!

My birds stay in the shade when I let them out in the morning they go looking for bugs by after noon they are hunting the shade!!!!

 

[chickadoodles]

Is there another way besides fermented feed you think? ACV is IMPOSSIBLE to find in my area an even more Impossible to find it with mother in it

I have used the ACV in my birds water since I first got them and it has kept them very healthy! And they love it, if I put one tub out there with the ACV and one without they all go to the ACV! lol

 

[chicken pickin]

I am not having a very good poult year. Hatch rates have been low, 3 poults have had flip(2 got past it one is 9 days old and still flips constantly. I have one with and odd leg and it cant walk and one sadly the other day got a wound on its neck and it kept scratching at it making it worse so we decided to cull it so it wouldn't be in any more pain. I sold I think 8 and kept 6 for myself though I think soon Ill be down to only having 3 to keep for myself. I have 7 eggs in the bator now to test fertility since my hens could care less about my toms. Only 3 are fertile I think he snuck on one hen once recently. Now Im trying to decide if I should keep trying to hatch or call it quits for the year. I have a feeling that I will keep trying but man Im having a hard time with them.

 

[Arielle]

I am not having a very good poult year. Hatch rates have been low, 3 poults have had flip(2 got past it one is 9 days old and still flips constantly. I have one with and odd leg and it cant walk and one sadly the other day got a wound on its neck and it kept scratching at it making it worse so we decided to cull it so it wouldn't be in any more pain. I sold I think 8 and kept 6 for myself though I think soon Ill be down to only having 3 to keep for myself. I have 7 eggs in the bator now to test fertility since my hens could care less about my toms. Only 3 are fertile I think he snuck on one hen once recently. Now Im trying to decide if I should keep trying to hatch or call it quits for the year. I have a feeling that I will keep trying but man Im having a hard time with them.

THat must be very disappointing. Sorry.

I rarely see the toms on the job, yet the job is getting done.

I'll ask the usuall q's--

How often do yu collect?
Are the eggs kept cool and moist ( 50 degrees at 70%) and turned 2-3 times a day until set?

FIgure you already know the incubating factors. Turn 2-3 tmes a day, 5 times is better. Humidity --low 25%; temp an even 99.5-100.

 

[chicken pickin]

THat must be very disappointing. Sorry.

I rarely see the toms on the job, yet the job is getting done.

I'll ask the usuall q's--

How often do yu collect?
Are the eggs kept cool and moist ( 50 degrees at 70%) and turned 2-3 times a day until set?

FIgure you already know the incubating factors. Turn 2-3 tmes a day, 5 times is better. Humidity --low 25%; temp an even 99.5-100.

We collect daily. Eggs get stored in a basement storage room turned 3 times daily til set. Incubating Temp 99.6 give or take a point humidity I have tried low 40s low 30s and low 20s all with pretty much the same results in an automatic turner. I am mainly upset about how the poults are after hatch not as hardy as chicks and I know they are harder the first week or 2 but its a little sad watching them struggle. Though most have been strong and need no help from a "tutor" to learn to eat or drink.

 

[Zootopia]

Is there another way besides fermented feed you think? ACV is IMPOSSIBLE to find in my area an even more Impossible to find it with mother in it

Walmart carries Braggs and it can be ordered from their online store

 

[desertmarcy]

YEAH about some pictures!! My poults are growing too!! They look like they are growing every day!!!

And they are eating like horses!!!

Oh and drinking water like all get out!! We had 100 degrees with 3 % humidity here. I laugh when people say the heat is not so bad...it is a dry heat!!

When you walk out the door it feels like you are walking into an oven!!

My birds stay in the shade when I let them out in the morning they go looking for bugs by after noon they are hunting the shade!!!!

I'm glad the turkeys you got from me are doing great! Yes, the heat is tough. Tough on the birds and tougher on me, I think! We are a lot hotter here than you are. An oven is right, that is exactly what it feels like, walking into a big oven, ugh! My first attempt to put my poults outside did not work. They were too young and totally freaked out and wouldn't move, and those nasty tiny ants started getting on some of them, so I had to bring them back inside. I have a temporary pen, bigger than their brooder bin was, set up in the garage---had to put my truck out in the hot sun for the turkeys, that is true love

. They are going on a month old now, and starting to get crowded even in this enclosure, so I'm about ready to try the great outdoors for them again, but this heat has me scared they will have problems. There is one section of the pen I can wire off from the rest so they aren't lost in the whole big thing, so that is what I will try. It was a mistake putting the little ones out in such a huge area at first, I think. I tried to handle them when they were really young, but I had too many to handle them all, not enough time. Boy, I can sure tell the ones that got the extra attention early on---they come running out when I open the pen and will sit quietly on my lap for a pet as long as I have the time to pet them!

 

[Zootopia]

My BS hen was trying to share a nest with a very unhappy cochin today. No more free range for her, she's bunking with the Rio Grands for now. They have a flight cage so she cant get out. I guess if she decides to brood in there I'll give her some guinea eggs and maybe a couple RG eggs. I need to list the 5 RG poults I hatched in the bator on CL and get them sold. Hate to tho, I really like them. Maybe I'll find someone else near enough I can trade for new blood.

 

[aztuffenuff]

I'm glad the turkeys you got from me are doing great! Yes, the heat is tough. Tough on the birds and tougher on me, I think! We are a lot hotter here than you are. An oven is right, that is exactly what it feels like, walking into a big oven, ugh! My first attempt to put my poults outside did not work. They were too young and totally freaked out and wouldn't move, and those nasty tiny ants started getting on some of them, so I had to bring them back inside. I have a temporary pen, bigger than their brooder bin was, set up in the garage---had to put my truck out in the hot sun for the turkeys, that is true love .  They are going on a month old now, and starting to get crowded even in this enclosure, so I'm about ready to try the great outdoors for them again, but this heat has me scared they will have problems. There is one section of the pen I can wire off from the rest so they aren't lost in the whole big thing, so that is what I will try. It was a mistake putting the little ones out in such a huge area at first, I think. I tried to handle them when they were really young, but I had too many to handle them all, not enough time. Boy, I can sure tell the ones that got the extra attention early on---they come running out when I open the pen and will sit quietly on my lap for a pet as long as I have the time to pet them!