I am back, had three batches of company all at once.. One of them is a young guy that I took an instant like to.. He bought some turkeys from me this spring..
today I just found out that I have known his dad for many years. not as a close friend, but a good acquaintance.. He is in a nursing home, now.. any how, I sent Rob home with 6 turkey eggs for his mother to hatch.. she thinks it is just awful to not to try to hatch every egg available.. LOL Last spring she bought some turkey eggs from me.. Rob came out to pick them up.. we showed rob how to float test an egg.. then I sent that almost ready egg along and told Rob to not tell his mother about how close to hatching it was.. It hatched within a couple of days of her setting all the eggs.. she was really surprised..LOL
Have any of you ever heard of the top beak falling off a red bourban turkey poult? doesn't that sound like a genetic problem?
I am really worn out.. I have been drinking everything in sight since I got home.. I was going to put the chicken coops back together today, but it can wait until tomorrow.. I have a couple of loads of chicken pooh to scoop up with the tractor.. I had the boys throw it out of the coop onto the ground last night,, It was too dark to fit a 68 inch wide tractor through a 72 inch wide gate..
.............jiminwisc...........