WHAT YA GOT SWAP Chat Thread

[Bettacreek]

This place has everything. For real. It's 10 acres. They have a livestock barn (horses, cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, etc), a poultry barn (selling supplies, even supplies for critters in the livestock barn, poultry of any kind, rabbits, guinea pigs, lots of doves and pigeons, eggs, etc), a produce barn (selling produce obviously and amish made goods, like whoopie pies, breads, etc) and then they have a restaurant (cheap prices, good food) and outdoors they have a huge area for flea market venders, who sell hot foods (hot sausage sammiches baby!) more produce and knick knacks, even guns, fishing supplies, dvd's, etc, etc. Basically like a monsterous Walmart of the REAL foods and goods. This place is freaking awesome. The only thing I haven't seen is fresh meats (in the already dead and cut up version, lol), but I haven't even looked over the entire place in the years I've gone, and I think there's a possibility of it being up in the restaurant area. If not, there's Peachy's meat market about a mile down the road, and I know they have decent prices on meat. A client I used to work for used to get their meats from Peachy's, I try to get mine from my brother, since he can get it at employee rates from the butcher shop. He works there every few weeks to keep his discount, lol.


ETA: I bought group of Californians there two years ago... Right at the start of breeding age, for $3.25 for each of them... Four females and one male, then sold off two of the females for $20. I checked today (for future reference, lol) and the same supplier is there still... plenty of just breeding age Calis! I didn't stay to see how much they went for, but I know it'll be under five bucks per babbit. I'm just debating between Calis and Rexes. I love the hides of rexes (and the colorations), but you have to butcher them out later for furs than you would want to for meat... So I haven't quite decided yet.

 

[GableBabble]

Lawl! That sounds like my kind of place! )

 

[Bettacreek]

Tell me about it! Even with a three year old and a four year old, it can be a very enjoyable day. They love checking out all of the animals. And the vendors are awesome. Like today... They each got a free banana and free icecream cones. And the poultry barn is almost like a little community... Most people know each other, and we can all pick on each other and have fun.

 

[coldupnorth]

Patty - Here are the three little ones that hatched from your eggs. They are just so cute! Thank you!

 

[GableBabble]

Grats on the three little ones. They are colored very pretty too

 

[babymakes6]

I hatched 10 Royal Palm poults yesterday! Thirteen eggs set, one was rotten

, and the last two were turned backwards in the shell. One pipped into the yolk, but they both died.

I am thrilled-I have never been able to hatch turkeys before! Six of these are going to KYTinpusher, and the other four are mine.

 

[anderson8505]

Patty - Here are the three little ones that hatched from your eggs. They are just so cute! Thank you!

Cool. For sure their dad was the Silver Penciled Rock roo. Who knows on the momma? Can't be the silchin or the barred rocks tho. Glad some hatched for you.

 

[GableBabble]

Grats! Turkeys are so much fun. They are really sweet loving birds. If you spend enough time with them, they will think your lap is the place to be )

I hatched 10 Royal Palm poults yesterday! Thirteen eggs set, one was rotten

, and the last two were turned backwards in the shell. One pipped into the yolk, but they both died.

I am thrilled-I have never been able to hatch turkeys before! Six of these are going to KYTinpusher, and the other four are mine.

 

[coldupnorth]

I hatched 10 Royal Palm poults yesterday! Thirteen eggs set, one was rotten

, and the last two were turned backwards in the shell. One pipped into the yolk, but they both died.

I am thrilled-I have never been able to hatch turkeys before! Six of these are going to KYTinpusher, and the other four are mine.

Hurray for you! We love our little poults that we hatched out here. We hatched 6 of 8 Narangnsetters. Unfortunately, lost 4 the first week due, I think, to the fact that they are hard to get eating on their own (we did have chicks in there with them to show them the ropes but probably too many chicks). Like Gabble said, they are just sweethearts when you spend time with them. I love the cute sounds they make (now anyways). They grow fast! My hubby is going to wonder what kind of chicks they really are.

 

[babymakes6]

We have a trio of RPs. They are the most fun birds, even as adults! I love the sounds baby turkeys make, too. Turkey poults also need a lot more heat than chicks-I lost 3 of my first 4 poults a few years ago. In August! They were six weeks old, and it got chilly overnight, the next morning 3 were dead. I leave them under a heat lamp for ten weeks now.