Wyoming Unite!!!!

[R2elk]

 

[Cinnamon Roll]

I’ve read that turkey poults are harder to raise than chicks. Do your broody turkey hens have fewer losses than if you raise them yourself?

I’ve discovered this spring that my chicken hens do a much better job than my incubator! I don’t think I’ll bother with the incubator if I can keep some broody hens around.

 

[R2elk]

I’ve read that turkey poults are harder to raise than chicks. Do your broody turkey hens have fewer losses than if you raise them yourself?

I’ve discovered this spring that my chicken hens do a much better job than my incubator! I don’t think I’ll bother with the incubator if I can keep some broody hens around.

I don't have any problem raising poults. Most people that have problems do so because they start with only a couple and then treat them like chicks.

Turkeys have different instincts than do chicks.

Turkey hens are for the most part, excellent incubators. Each turkey is its own individual. Some are great mothers while others may not be.

There is so much that can go wrong with newly hatched poults in the general population that I take the poults away from the hens and raise them in the brooder.

I currently have a hen whose poults are in the brooder and I let her adopt some 2+ week old poults instead.

 

[R2elk]

It's that time of year.

 

[R2elk]

The grackles are out of the nest early.

These are from yesterday. Surprisingly both fledglings are still alive this morning.

 

[R2elk]

Killdeer pretending to be injured.

 

[alwaysthere4chickens]

Here's an American robin regurgitating a seed.

 

[Cinnamon Roll]

Anyone interested in my rooster Clarence? He’s a cream Legbar from Murray McMurray, one year old in July. He’s good with the hens and wary of people, so his behavior hasn’t been any problem. The chickens all free range and he does a good job watching for danger. I am keeping some of his daughters and I’d like to transition to pea-combed roosters going forward, so I’d like to find him a good new home if possible.

(don’t look at my awful field of cheat grass )

 

[R2elk]

Roses are blooming.
Morden Sunrise

John Davis

Prairie Joy

 

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Henry Kelsey

J P Connell