More Eggs

March 31, 2011

Last day of March. Had the day off. Worked on the new pens, Got the frames all built but they are too heavy for me to move to the new site. So we’ll try to do that this weekend.

Got the oil changed in both vans, and they needed it.

Got 11 chicken eggs, but only 1 turkey egg. 2 of the turkey hens spent a lot of time on the nests today. Not sure if they are getting broody or not. My slate hen sure loves the new toms, and she is seriously in heat! I mean, she’ll squat for me when I just walk by her!

So I go the two new Toms. Shaky on where I got them. The pens weren’t as clean as I keep mine, and mine sometimes get dirty. These were nasty, but it has been rainy and such so who knows what the deal is. Anyway, I put them in the pen I used for chicks last year. And they are really getting the attention. They are strutting like mad and gobbling, and when I let then birds out they all run over to the pen. One of the hens squats down on the ground in front of them. Hesitant to put them in with the others until they’ve had a chance to get some antibiotics in them.

I wrote one of the hatcheries and told them I was interested in raising birds for eggs for them. Got a response that he is looking for someone to raise wild turkeys for them. So I’m waiting to actually talk to them and see how that goes. Will be interesting. Should be about the same as I’m doing right now, but probably will have to get inspected too.

Hoping to get out in the garden this weekend and till it up some and need to start hardening off some of my plants so I can plant them.

Jeanne went and got a new drivers license and social security card today and we combined the car insurance on the vans. So getting to be a real family.