The Turkeys take a roost

Today we introduced turkeys to our flock.  They were a little rattled by the trip from Luke and Angela's, but after they were here they were right at home.   They don't really dig the horse or Bear...  I'm sure they'll warm up soon after a whole night of Bear's protection and barking.  

Our turkeys claim there own perch.

Evening at KY Kids Farm: http://youtu.be/8IgSBr5aIlQ

Good Reading!

I've been focusing on the chickens lately, and a friend of ours who farms on a larger scale than us recommended this book.

"The Small Scale Poultry Flock"
by Harvey Ussery

This is the EVERYTHING about "it" book for chickens.  from hatching, through feeding and on to cooking...




Thanks for letting us borrow it John!  Our copy is on the way from Amazon now.

Candling

Today we took a couples minutes to show our son where his new turkeys were!  It looks promising so far...
Four of them looked like they might not be developing.   However all the rest have something going on,  including Henny Penny's egg that we pulled in.
More to follow,  but looking good!

Still holding at 101 degrees and about 40 to 50 percent humidity.

Turkeys

A good friend of ours is selling us some turkeys.  When we told our son we were getting turkeys,  he said, "with vegetables?"

I guess we know the fate of these two birds...

Turkey Eggs- take 2

OK, our first batch of Turkey eggs didn't do so hot...

Not to make excuses, but it was our first attempt at them, we had just gotten the incubator, and we really didn't have a clue what we were doing!

Thanks to our friends Luke and Angela though who set us up with another batch of turkey eggs and gave us some good hints and advice...  Now we are ready to try again!

So this is day one.  I fixed up the air circulator in our unit.  The person who sold it to us had suspended it by shoelaces before.  We went with zip strips and we also plugged up some of the holes in the bottom of the unit that were making it impossible to hold water and retain humidity.

Here's a quick prayer that God blesses us with turkeys...