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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    That is all completely understandable. I’m not sure I will still be owning/breeding turkeys in the next 3 years with this crazy economy. Free ranging they don’t eat so much feed but the hens like to nest way off the property in the woods and get eaten by varmints. Maybe that is for the best...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    My plan since the turkey eggs are not selling is to turn all the turkeys out to free range and use the huge pen they are in as another grow out pen for my project birds.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I have some White Leghorn eggs in lockdown for a friend we (we set too many eggs though) and some Red Necker eggs. They are due on Wednesday. 🥰
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    @BigBlueHen53 you can share this chart with her.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    If she doesn’t know what she is looking for, it is probably safer to keep the eggs in the incubator until lockdown and candle then. By then, any good egg is pretty much completely dark except for the air cell.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I have tried selling a dozen plus extras locally for $75 a dozen and keep getting “I will holler at you when my incubator is empty” or “I will holler at you when I have the money.” But I have gotten no serious inquiries. Mind you, these poults sell for $20 each from the breeder they came from...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Sweetgrass turkeys are pretty common in my area so they were harder to get any money for them. I sold all of my sweetgrass and mainly have Painted turkeys now.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I enjoy allowing the majority of our birds to free range and most choose to roost in trees on their own accord. We feel that a good offense and defense when chicken keeping is the best strategy. The dogs can only do so much since they are penned in about a 1/3 acre lot and our entire property...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Definitely. A good LGD is worth their weight in gold. A pack of good LGDs is priceless. 🥰
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    My heavy birds roost in the chicken house. But the lighter layers like the Leghorns, Legbars, Games, and Game mixes all roost in trees. We have 3 LGDs adjacent to where they all roost so I don’t lose very many in the trees. Not enough that I notice anyway.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    What were the parents?
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Why would you be shooting? Just set traps if you have a varmint issue. Where do your chickens sleep? Because when a varmint gets in my chicken house they do far more damage than taking any out of trees. Do you close up your chicken house at night?
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    That they do. That is a positive quality in my opinion.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Thank you! The Buff pullet is getting on my nerves. I know the Red Leghorn rooster is fertile, he had excellent fertility last year. But as soon as my husband put the Buff pullet in with the iBTR rooster he topped her so I’m hoping for fertile eggs. Maybe the Red rooster and the Buff pullet...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    There is good news and bad news on the Red Leghorn project. I candled the eggs I set on Tuesday (or was it Monday? 🤔) and the two Buff x iBTR eggs are developing. However the Red x Buff eggs are not. Completely infertile again. They were infertile back in the winter also. The Buff pullet...
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