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Post by **WLLady** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 8:35 am

KB: i haven't...yet...not much luck with broodies actually getting the job done. i have 1 girl that is fantastic, but she usually slips away and i have yet to find her nest(s). but if i get more broodies this year i will take your advice!!!! for sure! they certainly know more than i do LOL

i am in the same boat BVF. i want the poults this year, but in february!!??? gah! i'll end up having birds in the basement again i can see it now.....or the front room.....under heat. but if spring really is early....the wild turkeys are strutting right now. flocks of them in my field and they're acting completely the same, so this just might be spring....i can't see all these animals being wrong. if they are, and we have a really cold snap everything will be in trouble, and my horses will get blanketted. they're shedding. and my horses have never been wrong.....

Post by **Killerbunny** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 9:12 am

One of my broodies after she'd hatched the turkey eggs also took 2 other poults when the Mums weren't doing the best job. Wrong age and I thought for sure they'd die but I gave them to her and she just tucked them under with that "oh give them to me" fussing noise.

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 9:21 am

i had a beltsville hatch 14 poults under the willow tree at our old place. only a couple eggs didnt hatch... good broody but dumb turkey.... lost her and all the poults due to sleeping wherever she was when the sun went down... coyotes got them. it sucked. live n learn.

GOOD SATURDAY MORNING EVERYONE!!! heading over to my aunts and then to camp to get my boat finally! motor is still on it... I hope theres no water in the engine but mother nature has been kind... my old 1956 10 hp Johnson should be fine but i cant stop worrying about it...

have a great day all!

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 9:52 am

FYI, Jester the pug has her eye sown closed with stitches and is improving. She's acting like a big baby and doesn't want to be alone. She spends all day sitting with us or my mom. The stitches come off in ten days and we expect her eye is undamaged. Fingers crossed

Post by **Killerbunny** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 10:06 am

We're rooting for her!

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 11:19 am

Killerbunny wrote:QR_BBPOST Thanks to Joan for the 2 beautiful Black Ameraucana pullets she brought tonight. It's hubby's birthday and he was very taken with a Black Hen at OCs. Same bloodlines and nice Joan could make it happen!

I hope Joan added the Tag that's supposed to be attached to these birds when they go to a new home?
You know the one that says... "Caution may case addiction" ?

baronrenfrew wrote:QR_BBPOST FYI, Jester the pug has her eye sown closed with stitches and is improving. She's acting like a big baby and doesn't want to be alone. She spends all day sitting with us or my mom. The stitches come off in ten days and we expect her eye is undamaged. Fingers crossed

Lucky Jester, friend of ours Jack Russell terrier lost her eye that way, apparently not that uncommon accident.

Brebis · Post by **Brebis** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 12:42 pm

My jennys have been laying since the end of December, and though I've been collecting them I don't want to incubate any now either.
I had very good luck with Broodie's for the turkeys, better than letting the turkeys do it but prefer to take them away once hatched to get them friendlier. The one broody and the rooster were great parents to the poult she hatched but he's as wild as can be and is convinced he's.a chicken not a turkey, sigh.

Not sure if I'll try and hatch any as we need to move the end of June and both of us are on layoff at the moment so I will sadly be selling them to reduce expenses. Might try to hatch a few and keep those as back up if things improve and we find a place that we can have them.

kenya · Post by **kenya** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 1:23 pm

Are these the same kind of turkeys you had in your avatar on PSO? They were so beautiful!

Brebis · Post by **Brebis** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 2:14 pm

Yes, the Red and Tricolour Pencilled Palms from Porters.

windwalkingwolf · Post by **windwalkingwolf** » Sat Feb 06, 2016 4:35 pm

I'm setting some turkey eggs. If they hatch, it will be March, and if the weather stays on course, they could be off heat early April, and theoretically laying eggs of their own before years end. Lacy the old hen often sets two nests in a year and lays eggs at strange times, so I'm not worried about her quitting for the year. She has zero protective instincts though, and I'm not letting her attempt to raise poults ever again. She always manages to let them get killed off.
Happy late birthday to Vian!