Turkeys For 2013

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erinszoo said:
Well, heated the baby turkeys last night with hot water bottles. We lost power because of a snow storm so no heat lamps. They came through just fine. Several had crawled inside the towels and sprawled across the surface of the bottles when I got up this morning. It was interesting because they started screaming not too long after the power went out, as they do any time something changes in their world. Once we put the bottles in with them and they cuddled up to them, silence prevailed. It was amazing. They all zonked out, warm and happy, I guess. Glad to know it's possible to keep them warm without worrying in the event of a power failure. Just glad I didn't have eggs in the bator again yet.
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Fast thinking and great idea, maybe I should be stocking up on water bottles
1MrsMagoo said:
Great idea and some very quick thinking on your part! Even those of us with generators have to be careful about running all the heat lamps when the power goes out (in my case I have 4 of them going at all times).

Last spring, my husband cut down a tree that ended up having a nest of tiny baby squirrels in it (no fur..eyes not open). The heat lamp wasn't enough to keep them warm so I ended up using of the 72 hour heat packs I had left over from shipping goose eggs. Before we had our generators, if I had eggs in the incubator and we lost power for a long time, I took the bator to my car: It has a 110 outlet in the dash. Yes, I had to run the car for like 6 hours on idle, but the temp didn't really drop in the incubator!
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Now that is some dedication only a peep momma would do!
Janiecoke said:
I am getting 5 one year old Bronze tomorrow. One jake and four hens. :)
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Congrats on your new flock!
 
Hi,
Sorry I have not answered sooner, but I have been having phone and computer trouble. Life sometimes gives us little tribulations, but boy have I been getting my share! I guess the more we are blessed, by our Father, the more Satan tries to mess with us? First, AT&T, who I have had my phone with has been getting worse and worse to deal with. About 6 to 8 months ago, we switched from dial-up Internet to wireless, Internet. Since then every time the phone rang, it would drop me off the Internet, so I could not use the Internet, and the phone at the same time, which is why we went to the high speed from the dial-up, in the first place. We called several times, really month after month, that something wasn't right and were told, to try this and that, until we gave up trying. They would keep saying it would cost $80 for someone to come out and look at the problem. We kept telling them that it had never worked right since they put it in. They would not wave the $80. , so I bought a MagicJack phone service for $30 and $20 a year phone service, plus $30 to keep my same phone number. On MJ's instructions, we called AT&T to get unbundled, so the phone and Internet would be separate accounts, and were assured that we were never bundled to start out with, that's why our bill was over $100, without any long distance. After that, when they transferred my number to MJ, they cut off all my services. I had to call and get a separate phone number for the Internet only. Your phone number is your account number, too. That took all day, with all the foreign accents those people have working for them. That worked for one day. Then the bad thunderstorms came. During the rain, the electric company came and hooked up the meter and power to Hubby's shop. To do this, they had to drop power to the house for about 20 minutes. No biggie, but when they turned it back on, no phone and no Internet. Big coincidence. AT&T swore they did nothing and it was not a problem on their end and we needed separate fiber optic lines for each service, or our house was wired wrong when it was built 14 years ago! . At this point, we were at the end of out rope and I finally got them to wave the $80 fee and send someone out! It was an older man they sent out with a lot of experience and right away he found that the new fiber optic line they put in was not hooked up to the house correctly. He also told us that we were being billed for the fastest Internet they had, even though we asked for the least costly. He then traced the line back to the source, from us and found 3 more mistakes at junction boxes with their wires, plus a junction box that was struck by lightning during the storm. So now we have service again, at least for now and I am back on line.
Now this weekend we are suppose to get some freezing weather for 3 nights. I knew since the older turkeys that laid so well, last year, haven't started laying yet. Like the old saying goes"knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers"! All we have to do is look at the oldest members of nature, like the oldest trees on the property and we can forecast when spring has started, before planting our gardens. The younger saplings might get confused and sprout prematurely, but the wise old trees have endured all this time because they were wiser! For us, it looks like spring is still a couple of weeks away yet!
 
Celie said:
Hi,
Sorry I have not answered sooner, but I have been having phone and computer trouble. Life sometimes gives us little tribulations, but boy have I been getting my share! I guess the more we are blessed, by our Father, the more Satan tries to mess with us? First, AT&T, who I have had my phone with has been getting worse and worse to deal with. About 6 to 8 months ago, we switched from dial-up Internet to wireless, Internet. Since then every time the phone rang, it would drop me off the Internet, so I could not use the Internet, and the phone at the same time, which is why we went to the high speed from the dial-up, in the first place. We called several times, really month after month, that something wasn't right and were told, to try this and that, until we gave up trying. They would keep saying it would cost $80 for someone to come out and look at the problem. We kept telling them that it had never worked right since they put it in. They would not wave the $80. , so I bought a MagicJack phone service for $30 and $20 a year phone service, plus $30 to keep my same phone number. On MJ's instructions, we called AT&T to get unbundled, so the phone and Internet would be separate accounts, and were assured that we were never bundled to start out with, that's why our bill was over $100, without any long distance. After that, when they transferred my number to MJ, they cut off all my services. I had to call and get a separate phone number for the Internet only. Your phone number is your account number, too. That took all day, with all the foreign accents those people have working for them. That worked for one day. Then the bad thunderstorms came. During the rain, the electric company came and hooked up the meter and power to Hubby's shop. To do this, they had to drop power to the house for about 20 minutes. No biggie, but when they turned it back on, no phone and no Internet. Big coincidence. AT&T swore they did nothing and it was not a problem on their end and we needed separate fiber optic lines for each service, or our house was wired wrong when it was built 14 years ago! . At this point, we were at the end of out rope and I finally got them to wave the $80 fee and send someone out! It was an older man they sent out with a lot of experience and right away he found that the new fiber optic line they put in was not hooked up to the house correctly. He also told us that we were being billed for the fastest Internet they had, even though we asked for the least costly. He then traced the line back to the source, from us and found 3 more mistakes at junction boxes with their wires, plus a junction box that was struck by lightning during the storm. So now we have service again, at least for now and I am back on line.
Now this weekend we are suppose to get some freezing weather for 3 nights. I knew since the older turkeys that laid so well, last year, haven't started laying yet. Like the old saying goes"knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers"! All we have to do is look at the oldest members of nature, like the oldest trees on the property and we can forecast when spring has started, before planting our gardens. The younger saplings might get confused and sprout prematurely, but the wise old trees have endured all this time because they were wiser! For us, it looks like spring is still a couple of weeks away yet!
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Wow, I can't imagine how frustrated you were, at least you got it taken care of now. Love the last part of your message!!!
 
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