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[justbugged]

Does anyone have a live turkey that we can borrow for the day. We have a family dinner that we were told to NOT to bring a live turkey too, that we should bring a frozen bird to. So now it's game on, and we would to see the family's faces if we can show up with a live turkey in the large dog crate. The dinner is going to be held in North Seattle. We are going to be eating the frozen turkey not a live turkey. So we only want to borrow the turkey for the day. My daughter's in Laws will be here also from the Netherlands.

 

[Oregon Blues]

Chicken Rustler, the metal work looks gorgeous.

 

[AriLovesChickens]

So I'm trying to decide what to do about Peep. I'm going out of town December 21-January 1. DH is not leaving until Christmas day, and I can't trust him to take care of a chick (sad but true). When I started this hatch, I thought I'd get more chicks, and that it would be fairly easy to sell them on CL. With just one, I don't know. Does anyone here want to raise this little mutt egg layer? Otherwise, I guess I'll try CL.

ETA - I found someone who might be interested in watching Peep for a couple of weeks.

 

[Totalcolour]

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IMHO, the Muscovy makes really wonderful, but very RICH meat, plus, the drakes grow very fast and produce a huge breast in no time.

Not sure which is better, the Khaki Campbell or the Welsh Harlequin for egg laying. I know that Harlies can lay UP TO 350 eggs per year, and often outlay chickens. The eggs are big, but are otherwise like chicken eggs. (Muscovy eggs are a bit "snotty", the white part is gooey and icky until it's cooked, and they lay for a short season, but hubby loves them)

We breed Muscovies, and have just recently got two breeding pairs pf Harlies, with 10 chicks ordered for spring.

(Nice to meet you yesterday

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[Ogress]

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My mother is from the Netherlands and she will not touch turkey, nor will any of my other Dutch relatives when they come visit. I don't know why, but they think it is a disgusting animal. These same people (not my mom, but my other relatives) keep rabbits for meat. Do turkeys nibble on poop snacks?

 

[Rainwolf]

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My mother is from the Netherlands and she will not touch turkey, nor will any of my other Dutch relatives when they come visit. I don't know why, but they think it is a disgusting animal. These same people (not my mom, but my other relatives) keep rabbits for meat. Do turkeys nibble on poop snacks?

My dad's family is from Netherlands too! wonder if we are related......

 

[Rainwolf]

wheres Robin???
Did my joke smell to bad?

 

[SadieSue]

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Can't wait to see your Gingerbread Coop!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Were you there ??? Or just the pics?? See actually the 4 saw blades were made by an ANTI-chicken buddy. Who I might add is now building a coop for......some chickens

I have infected him.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I think people are still in Chehalis?

I had a unique religious experience today- was having a bad result of only taking a half-hour to eat breakfast and take the fistful of pills tag go with it, and left during communion to sit and recline in the car. The gollywobbles having fled in ten minutes (oh, yeah: I'd forgotten it was St. Nicholas and there was a pageant after) I sat up and faced a maple (I think vine maple rather than Japanese by various bits of evidence) that had either been insanely badly pruned, or had someone intentionally twist branches together instead of pruning it when it impinged on the parking lot- in any case, crossing branches like whoa, to whit:

Imagine, for your own discomfort, seeing a chicken caught between two fences, or a dog in a collar so tight the fat bulged on either side, or a horse with a twist of wire around its hock... I did a quick inventory but strangely enough all my pruning tools were gone from the trunk and so I sat and planned the Three Critical Cuts; it turns out there are three that correct the worst crossing places- one branch has started to rot in four calluses where it crosses completely from the nine o'clock to the four o'clock positions, and there are two ground-sprouts that should have been soft pinched two springs ago but which can be mostly-remediated by having two facing crossing branches cut out- a saw job, though. I'll email the vicar tonight and see if I can get there for a little time some day this week, because maples die ugly (or in this case, maple branches die ugly) when left in that kind of tangle.