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So to get them calm but not to be pest you should handle the some but not a lot? I handled my first poults a fair amount and would go give them treats, now they won't leave me alone while outside if they are out free ranging.
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Palms are so pretty!! THe lack of meat causes me a lack of i nterest.
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THe white Holland though sound like a meal for 20!! ANd the MW--well they just need saving. GOtta eat more turkey.

I roasted a chicken the other day--and leftovers are inthe soup pot now cooking away. As much as I love chicken soup, I love turkey soup MORE!!!
 
Arielle said:
Palms are so pretty!! THe lack of meat causes me a lack of i nterest.
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THe white Holland though sound like a meal for 20!! ANd the MW--well they just need saving. GOtta eat more turkey.

I roasted a chicken the other day--and leftovers are inthe soup pot now cooking away. As much as I love chicken soup, I love turkey soup MORE!!!
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you should have seen some of those black spanish toms we butchered last year.. the mixed black spanish were beasts too... out of all of our turkeys they were the monsters... when we tried to deep fry one he wouldn't fit in the pot.. I also didn't have a roaster pan big enough.. so ended up having to cut them up for cooking..
even scalding for plucking was a chore.. had to scald one end.. then flip them over and scald the other since they wouldn't fit in my scalding pot...

now granted they still don't get as big as a BBW... but they came pretty close... they made the bourbon reds look like midgets..
 
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YEah-- great job. Well worth the effort.

:oops:  I might be interest ed in some poults.   I  kn ow many shipp just a few birds now with a heat pack for warmth.  ANy thoughts on shipping just a few poults??  15 seems like a head ache-- but may it's the time of year and I will feel differently in the spring!! lol
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 I know what you mean! I keep getting calls for chicks and with all my growing chickens, I can't even think about hatching right now! I have shipped chicken chicks but have not shipped poults. I know they are more delicate so not sure about shipping fewer. Here, it gets warm so soon in the spring, I'd kind of hate to put a heat pack in with them. They've got to make it out of Arizona first!

15---not a problem! When I found out when my Porter poults were due to ship, I set my own eggs so they'd hatch at the same time. I had about 45 poults all at once. My main problem was, I wanted to handle them so they would be friendly, and with my other chores, I didn't have time to do that enough. The more interesting colors got handled more, and there were so many look-alikes (self blues from Porter plus my own), I could have picked up the same one over and over and not known! Ha, I can sure tell now which ones got handled a lot---they are the pests and the others hang back.
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I scared to ship poults. :oops:
 


Ignore my crap hole of a house. It's a 2yr work in progress. It was a whole heck of a lot worse when we moved in.

Yesterday's storm took out my turkey pen. The plan was to keep them in the dog kennel and move it around every 1-2 days until the Red, Blue and Blacks were heavy enough to stop jumping the fence my ducks and geese are in. Then move them back there. The meat birds are fine to go back there now... If the ducks were gone (Thursday is their date with my freezer). My red is still jumping 5' with his wings clipped. The 2nd pic is the little temp pen we set up for the 2 crippled girls. It was just until Thursday. That piece of plywood by my car flew from the pile of turkey feed into the side of my car and dented the back door and scraped up the quarter panel. Yesterday was a complete ordeal.

I heard the storm warning at my moms, went home. I was trying to batten down the hatches, but it began raining on my way back. I went potty and in the couple minutes that took, my turkey pen was in pieces, the crippled girl's cage was flattened and they were sitting in the yard with no place to go. I ran out, scooped them up, put them in the turkey pen as I stood out there holding the pen from falling apart more or blowing away. After a few minutes taking that down pour with my birds, the kennel broke and the yard was flooding (there's a little dip in the yard and it was filling up fast with the turkeys in it) and then I started carrying the birds to big shed - only place I had to put them. Six trips and 10 birds later, all were safe in the shed. I set up 2 heat lamps, a large dog crate for the crippled girls (the Blacks pick at them nonstop) and set up the shed for them for now. They can't stay in there. It's there "Red Cross" temporary housing.

Now I need to hustle and build something for the turkeys... or build something to shuffle someone out to put the turkeys in....
 
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Ignore my crap hole of a house. It's a 2yr work in progress. It was a whole heck of a lot worse when we moved in.

Yesterday's storm took out my turkey pen. The plan was to keep them in the dog kennel and move it around every 1-2 days until the Red, Blue and Blacks were heavy enough to stop jumping the fence my ducks and geese are in. Then move them back there. The meat birds are fine to go back there now... If the ducks were gone (Thursday is their date with my freezer). My red is still jumping 5' with his wings clipped. The 2nd pic is the little temp pen we set up for the 2 crippled girls. It was just until Thursday. That piece of plywood by my car flew from the pile of turkey feed into the side of my car and dented the back door and scraped up the quarter panel. Yesterday was a complete ordeal.

I heard the storm warning at my moms, went home. I was trying to batten down the hatches, but it began raining on my way back. I went potty and in the couple minutes that took, my turkey pen was in pieces, the crippled girl's cage was flattened and they were sitting in the yard with no place to go. I ran out, scooped them up, put them in the turkey pen as I stood out there holding the pen from falling apart more or blowing away. After a few minutes taking that down pour with my birds, the kennel broke and the yard was flooding (there's a little dip in the yard and it was filling up fast with the turkeys in it) and then I started carrying the birds to big shed - only place I had to put them. Six trips and 10 birds later, all were safe in the shed. I set up 2 heat lamps, a large dog crate for the crippled girls (the Blacks pick at them nonstop) and set up the shed for them for now. They can't stay in there. It's there "Red Cross" temporary housing.

Now I need to hustle and build something for the turkeys... or build something to shuffle someone out to put the turkeys in....
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I glad you are alright and nothing happen to your home.

Thank good ness for sheds and dog crates!!!

My son waws asking last night if he could sleep in the new coop??? An image of the refuges in cardboard box roofs flashed thru my mind, and I answered with a laugh, no honey, we are not allowed to sleep in a building like this . IT doesn't meet the current building codes. I felt like such a smuck--- as long as we have a roof over our heads, nothing else really matters.
 
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