We have the BEST subs on all the RU-vid 😭. Thanks so much for the love and encouragement everybody. The week was made especially hard by the passing of my beloved Popcorn, so your kind words mean the world. ❤
Hi Punk. I know it's difficult but you'll get it figured out and fix it. Trials and errors help us learn. You have such an amazing heart. Btw...I bought turkey eggs from a hatchery and one one hatched but he died 24 hours later. Then I purchased some turkey eggs on ebay and not one made it to hatch day. I decided to just mail order some poults and all 11 arrived two weeks ago and are thriving. These babies are some precious little souls. I had no idea how easy it is to get attached. They have amazing personalities. an
Thanks so much. Sounds like you've been thru some turkey heartache this season as well. Congrats on your miracle 11! They are little darlings. Feathered puppies.
Take from me -we all appreciate the real in the content you provide.. some jus wanna show the good -but I’m sure most of us would rather see the truth of the journey!! Enjoy and hope you can save if not bounce back from the lost of your crops!
You are an amazing farmer and you will always have bad things happen. The most important thing and what makes you a wonderful steward of your animals and land is that you continue to learn from your mistakes. Look how far you have come in such a short time and how much you have learned! ❤️❤️ Sending you love I know how hard the bad days can get! Thank you for showing both the good and bad of farming. I know far to many people who romanticize farming and it’s always important to know it’s not all fun and games!
I feel your pain, it's always something on the homestead, most people have no idea unless they live it. It's hard work, exhausting and most days not rewarding like you hope but still a good life
You try so hard, my heart goes out to you. “Just a Few Acres” just lost 40 meat chicks to a raccoon”. We just discovered a raccoon with 3 babies in one of our sheds (relocated) and also took out a rat that had suddenly appeared. It’s hard to win the race. Terrible too about all that water. One minute you’re praying for it and the next you’re drowning in it. Life is one heck of a struggle. No matter, we must keep up the good fight just as you are doing. 🇨🇦
So sorry Punk... I only have one Bourbon Red hen. I took the first 12 eggs to incubate, 6 hatched. I left her 12, but she kept laying, none of those hatched :((. She's still laying eggs, over 34 so far in total. I decided to just collect the one a day that she lays.
Hugs dear farmer lady friend. The 4 poults we brought home are happily peeping at me from their digs in the kitchen while I type and I appreciate especially how much you must have handled them. They skitter away when i grab the food and water containers to refill them but otherwise are happy to be at the front, be picked up and loved on (when the hounds are out and I can keep KittyWampus at bay. I think that kitty thinks they are hers to watch out for, as most of the time, now, she just sits by the front of their crate, watching. No moves towards trying to get a paw through the grate. And the chickens (Olive Eggers) who got moved to the back porch have been ok there without added heat, so all is good with the fowl here. Sorry about your flooded fields.
@@North44farmstead They get lots of feline company watching and watching over them. My KittyWampus spends hours just sitting by the pet crate opening, just watching them and there is often one of the other cats on TOP of the crate also (highest place in the kitchen, other than the 'fridge which cats get shooed away from, 'cause that is where K keeps the chips. When KittyWampus is there, all 4 of them want to spend every minute at the front of the crate, talking to her! As they do to us, when we walk past. I am glad they are so friendly. One did get loose when K was feeding and watering the other day, but was very easy to recapture.
We are right there with you on the rain versus garden... We lost so much 😕 Turkey's certainly are not the easiest - we lost over half of our bourbon reds - our hearts go out to you, we know how much you tried. Blessings 😌
If it ain't one thing it's another!!... I know how you love your flock so this must've been gut wrenching..... but you're making it work and that does count for something. Although it hurts it's clear that your heart is in it (I'm trying for encouraging words here but I'm flopping all around like a dieing tuna fish)...so I hope you don't give up!
So relatable, I'm so sorry. Natural brooding so tough. Even just making a *single* space for a broody, a big ol tub upgrade to keep her from pooping on her eggs, and she was trying her best but just didn't get it - she'd sometimes sit next to her eggs but not on them! It's so hard to give all of them the space they need in any amount of volume. Just trying to brood out a few clutches a year is so much time, so many lost eggs, and some dead chicks. So frustrating that we can't explain to them "YOU'RE JUST KILLING YOUR UNHATCHED CHICKS IF YOU STEAL HER POULTS, YOU DINGUS!!!"
Aww, shoot. I'm so sorry that things didn't go according to plan. I've had a couple of really sad hatching experiences here too, I know how disheartening it is have things like this happen. I do have to say that I'm impressed with how easily most of your hens let you into the nest to pick up the poults. Did you see the black eye my mean broody gave me this week?! They can truly be little dinosaurs but we sure do love 'em.
Oh no, you got a broody shiner?! I'll go check IG, sorry! They are such broody beasts! We're doing a little better over here. Copper and Colby are hatching theirs now and so far so good 👍
My best hen mothered her daughter's poults. Her daughters got upset by that. We let the moms nest where they felt safe and raise their poults. It works well for the best moms. Unfortunately the evil eagles, hawks and owls had sit down snacks that wiped out most of one moms poults and took a couple moms. I'm working on better cover for the future.
It was my fault. I tried so hard to set them up so that they would be safe, but it didn't turn out how I had hoped. I try to never separate the moms and babies, but in this instance I had to keep the survivors safe. I was sharing my experience so others can learn from my mistakes.
Hey fishing gang.. if you're doing heritage turkeys, remember they are a step away from wild turkeys so be patient with them and set them up to succeed. If you don't want them sleeping in trees or nesting in the woods, you have to be on watch. Hand raising them from poults is always ideal.. they will imprint on you and be much easier to handle.. Feel free to ask more specific questions and good luck!
