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before the tiger bronze came, I had no penciling in the flock. There is a chance that the hen might be a cornish instead of a sweetgrass, she is a turkey raised turkey from last year. i stole all 13 poults because of the downpour predicted for this evening, and I am glad I did because it was a...

Tiger bronze crossed with sweetgrass hen makes this guy and 12 others just like it.

I saw this and wanted to share, the bumblebees are out in force this spring.

Who would miss those tenderloins? sad.

I have had that happen a few times. As long as they are feisty, I usually give them a chance and make the boot. If they are lacking and seem weak, they get culled.

They seem to really like these 55 gallon drums with doors cut out.

My turkeys are laying, just set a big batch. Here's hoping to interesting colors!

I feel like if someone was talking about soup beans, they would be referring to just the beans going into the soup, and not the soup itself, here. It is indeed interesting how colloquialisms change place to place. There is a LOT of chili made here, though. So, if it isn't chili, and it has...

Bean soup is any soup with beans that isn't chili, I guess. The particular recipe was senate bean soup, which is white beans with a ham hock, garlic, potatoes ( we eat so many potatoes in the north) and onions with salt, pepper, and parsley. I make a lot of soup anyways, since I broth all the...

It sleeted/snowed/rained last 2 days here. I made bean soup and mostly didn't bother going outside except to feed and water all the animals.

wilds and domestics are pretty much the same species anyways, with a few selected personality quirks and slightly chubbier body types for the domestics.

Just like the black winged bronzes showing up near my place?

My oldest has had her FFA advisor trying to get her to get a market turkey, since our fair won't let the kids sell a heritage turkey as a market animal at the sale, so I relented when I saw a brand new batch of bbw poults at the Big R store. They hadn't gotten pinions and still had their egg...

For the chickens, they are encouraged to nest in their chicken house, where there is a chicken door. Zeus can't fit, but I have seen him try. He can fit his head, but not his shoulders, through the coop door. He has figured out how to break into the run , so I need to address that soon. He is a...

Yeah, I can't keep Zeus from the eggs. The only way to protect the eggs is to provide a nesting space that is too narrow for a dog to fit into, and then hope the birds are smart enough to use it. For the chickens that isn't a big deal, but for turkeys? Not so much. I did try elevating some...

I have used the feed bag method myself, cut the corner out, draw the heat through that, then tie the feet with the bag opening. They can't punch you when contained thus. We also use big traffic cones. The big ones, you can cut the tops off and they are big enough for turkeys. We use a double...

I have a few extra jakes that made it into this year because they just weren't quite big enough for Thanksgiving of Christmas dinner. They are about the right sized for Easter dinner, though. I did have a jake start choking when I was throwing out feed yesterday, he was stumbling and trying to...

My oldest daughter has been getting her biology teacher into turkey genetics. They have been all over the Turkey Color Genetics website, and she had me send pictures of the turkeys we have to input into the color calculator. It is nice to have a teacher that doesn't just get annoyed at her...

She's such a pretty lady!

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