Good Morning! <=2017

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Fri Mar 17, 2017 7:44 pm

Well it started lightly snowing a few hours ago, within the last half an your there is an inch on the ground! More than that last snow storm was supposed to bring. We might get to go sledding after all! :-D

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JimW · Post by **JimW** » Fri Mar 17, 2017 9:20 pm

Well a successful quick road trip to la Belle province today. only 600 km round trip... 3 new 2016 hatch turkeys, a pair of slates and a black hen.

The slates when bred will produce slates, self blues and blacks. I will also breed the black hen with the slate tom, so he has 2 girls, the black to slate will give me more blacks and slates. Can't wait!!! Then next year hopefully once I get some chocolate turkeys later this year (I now have 3 sources for chocolates!!!) I can create my sex-linked turkeys breeding a black hen with a chocolate tom (all the chocolate poults will be hens, black poults toms).

Speaking our turkeys I was in turkey heaven today!!! Lots of great looking turkeys of all different breeds in simple but very functional pens, when I go back this summer I think I will ask if I can take a few photos. Some of the breeds included Beltsville small whites, blacks, slates, royal palms, bourbon reds, eastern wilds, sweetgrass, pencilled red palms, buff, ridley bronze, chocolates... I am sure I forgot something.

I am glad I did not bring extra cash with me or 3 turkeys could have been 10. lol

JimW

NormaK · Post by **NormaK** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 3:11 am

thegawd wrote:QR_BBPOST Well it started lightly snowing a few hours ago, within the last half an your there is an inch on the ground! More than that last snow storm was supposed to bring. We might get to go sledding after all! :-D

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Thanks for the video Al!...enjoy your sledding.

NormaK · Post by **NormaK** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 3:14 am

kenya wrote:QR_BBPOST NormaK. Wow That's a lot of snow, cute video, love your dog. Makes me smile!

Thanks! She's very playful.

Post by **WLLady** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 9:04 am

Good morning everyone!
Set a full sportsman yesterday afternoon-3 of us sharing it this time. Turkeys and chickens.
Very foggy out this morning. Hoping this means its warmer. We got quite a bit fluffy snow last night, more than the last week!! Have a pen to clean and some starlings to harass....hope hubby doesnt mind lol

Jaye · Post by **Jaye** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 9:10 am

[Hope hubby doesn't mind] about the pen cleaning or the starling harassment?

Post by **WLLady** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 9:13 am

Both lol-because hes gonna be "helping"....aka "doing" lol

hayladee · Post by **hayladee** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 2:39 pm

Three calves so far this season, watching them "find" their first meal never gets old....well sometimes when they aren't getting it and momma kicks if I try helping baby...but when they latch on, the milk flows and the tail starts flailing back and forth with excitement, just doesn't get any better than that.
have an incubator question. I set eggs on 2/27 and forgot to stop turner yesterday, just stopped it now. question is can I safely transfer the eggs from turner to egg cartons or should I just let them alone? I don't have the other bator heated up and I'm thinking just to let them where they are.

Post by **WLLady** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 2:58 pm

If the chicks cannot get stuck in the turner just leave it, it they can get stuck and hurt i would transfer them very gently and quickly-chick for pips first. If they are pipped leave them alone. Congrats on the calves!!!!!

Bayvistafarm · Post by **Bayvistafarm** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 9:00 am

Good morning!! Its a nice sunny one! Someone on that Ontario Poultry buy and sell wanted some turkeys, so I told her I had two Jennies here, and someones coming in about 1/2 hr to get them. They are the ones that were discussed at the summer meeting.. or before... or around there.... but getting rid of them never came to pass. They are lovely quiet girls... just started posturing for the 'man'. I hope she takes good care of them!!

Got eggs to lockdown today. I started both turkey eggs AND mutt eggs two fridays past. I fired up the hovabator to hatch in... much easier to clean up, and also, when I took 12 turkey eggs out that weren't fertile, leaving only 7.. I loaded it up with whatever chicken eggs I had collected from one week to the other. So, in another week Friday, 10 more chicks. Need to replace my aging layer population this fall.

Yesterday, I also segregated the layer pen to a group of EO's.. and will collect in about 3 weeks. They've been running with the EE rooster. The other EO roo is with the general population now...giving the EE a rest. Theres 40 hens in there!

Question... the hovabator is set at 100.7F.... but the thermometer/hydrometer laying on the bottom screen says temp down there is 37.1. Is that sufficient for hatching? or should it be 37.5C.

Well, I'd better go out and bed the cows. Cleaned the hen house yesterday, and one turkey pen. Its amazing how a nice pen of shavings can turn into a nasty mix of 'dust' and feathers and of course,

. The one turkey girl in there had moulted BADLY. lol. Shes nice a pristine now.

Cows are bellying up. Sigh. Lots of work ahead. 45 to calve. I'm sure some of them have twins. We didn't have any twins last year, but have had 5 sets in one year in the past.... and two sets were even born on the same day!!