Just as I was ready to put these stupid turkeys on freecycle, I got a surprise. Every morning the hen has been pacing along the fence line on my son's side. I'd open the gate and she would come in. Well, today I got fed up and told her that she got over there, she could get back. Then I went out to work on the chicken pasture. It is way to the back of the yard. Just on the other side of the fence is our 2 bee hives.( I had to put them on my son's side because the dumb dog eats bees). Anyway, I looked down between the hives and there is my hen turkey. She pretended that I couldn't see her for a while then walked off. There are 3 eggs so far.
ow, last time she hatched, I think 12, but all were lost the second night, who knows this time. The problem is that I have 10 broad brested whites due to arive tomorrow. Thoes, plus the 5 I already have (not counting the Narries). Oh boy, I could end up with a LOT of turkeys.
Maybe I can trade some for fawn milk. I have 4 of them already and still getting calls. Ranch rehab is FULL!
NARAGANSET IS AT IT AGAIN
LOL your going to have turkeys all over the place. What a hen!
Your dog eats bees? Maybe he likes things with a bite. Give him some hot sauce LOL.
Jyl, did you get a fawn from our area recently? A friend hit a doe last week and they DNR rescued the fawn and sent it to a farm. Since you are a rehabber, it might have gone to you.
GG
Granny,
NO, the furthest south mine have come from is Interlochen. By any chance are you interested in a pair of Narragansets? Tom-Tom was chasing cars tonight and that's the last straw! How about some ducks? I'll even throw in dinner. I'm serious! I'll even let you feed a fawn. (good grief, I'd let ANYONE feed a fawn right now!)
Jyl, nope, I don't have the time nor the energy to take care of anything more than I have right now. As for feeding a fawn, we live next to a deer farm so I could probably feed them on a regular basis. I don't know who the rehabber is around here now. At least I don't know who the licensed one is. There are some farmers who do it without having licenses, though.
GG
Oh well, I tried.
jyl...I sure hope your hen turkey has better luck this time! Your gonna have turkeys coming out of your ears and I have chicks coming out of mine. If it wasn't for the madness, would it be as exciting?
of course not LOL
poor Jyl! pay our gas there and my kids and i will feed your fawns for a week and bring home turkey poults with us! we need a vacation LOL
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If I could come up with that much gas money, I'D take a vacation! Right now I'm choosing between gas and fawn milk. Thanks for the offer. LOL
I know how you feel jyl....I think a lot of are feeling the pinch right now.....we are choosing between gas and people milk....what is the world coming to? You know it's changing in a big way when you have to figure your gallons of gas to the mile to make sure you can make it to work and back before your next paycheck!! If gas goes any higher than it already is, I think A LOT of people are going to be hurting. :(
(ladybug stepping off her soap box now..........)
yeah, or losing weight by walking & biking & eating less [off mine now!]
If we had to bike to work we'd never be able to go home. It'd take too long to get to the city from here!
Paul is riding his motorcycle to work these days unless it's pouring rain or he's dead tired (like when he works the whole weekend). We're buying a Smart Car for me to drive.When we have to haul stuff we'll take the truck but that's the only time it'll be moved. Driving anywhere is out of the question these days. Hate what the airlines have become so if we travel it'll be by train or bus only. We're now over $4./gal here.
MollyD
I'm going to look at a small motor bike (not motorcycle) this afternoon. I only live 7 miles from work and it is now costing me over $100 a week just to go to and from work (well I do come home for lunch--but still). Problem is the backway to work is 3 miles farther and I have to take it in order to get over the Mokelumne River--the closest bridge is on a highway. Things really aren't set up for alternative way to travel--even if you want to do it. I should ride my bike--but the backroads are terribly dangerous--no one expects or makes room for anything smaller than a Hummer.
well, THAT is gonna change! i actually in the last two weeks have seen TWO different parent/child pairs come and leave the grocery store on person powered bikes... backpacks for groceries and all.
one day i will have a yak, and a wagon...
I bought a three-wheeler bicycle last year for excercise because I never learned to ride a bike and my balance isn't the greatest. The nearest store is 1 1/2 miles away, so when I am able to ride that far, that will be my mode of transportation. Unfortunately, the closest large grocery is 20 miles away, so we only go when we have to. I am thinking of getting a golf cart and making it street legal for getting around town. There are several people who have them here, so you do have to watch out for them on the back roads.
GG
wish we could peddle, but I would probably drop over from it.....we are 20 miles away from anything. My DH has been talking about getting a motorcycle to get to work, but that is 25 miles away, and as I pointed out to him, he just does not have the best attention span. Plus, mixing that with driving in the dark of morning, on constantly winding roads, with deer, coons, opossums, etc around about every other corner....not a good idea! (just had to throw the critters out there, I have never seen so much wild life on the road before) :)
We have a large Amish community in my area. I keep thinking that they are probably snickering at all of us "English" who are complaining about gas prices as they go down the road in their buggies. Maybe they have had the right idea all along.
Same here slvrwilo. Of course if they have to buy their hay maybe they aren't snickering quite so much!
MollyD
And again, here. Yep, Molly, that is a thought.
GG
I'm paying $4./bale for Timothy hay here. May be up by this fall too.
MollyD
We have a lot of Amish here too. And so many a little farther north, in some areas the highways are covered in manure! I hadn't thought of it that way Molly.....I'm glad you pointed it out....giving me another way to look at it! : )
Yep those hay burners cost a lot to feed LOL.
MollyD
Good hay is at least $6 a bale here and if you want any this winter you have to commit to it wil large deposites now. The dry summer last year really cut into the crop, but the first cutting this year will be fabulous. (If it ever stops raining long enough to cut it.)
The weird part is that one of the ladies where I work said her husband took a load of hay to auction the other day and couldn't even get a bid on it. He said only one person got a bid on any of the hay brought in that day. The farmers all seem to be planting corn, figuring that is where the money is going to be this year. So that will probably mean that the price of hay is going to be even higher. At one time in my life we had 27 head of horses and about 6 head of cattle. I am very glad I don't have to worry about buying hay for that crew anymore. We feed the deer in our backyard and the price of corn is bad enough. It seems to go up every few weeks. We are not seeing as many fawns this year for some reason. Maybe the hunters got most of the older does.
jylgaskin we've had our first cutting here already. Really nice. The year looks promising though we're 2" behind on rain so far.
slvrwilo I am so glad I'm not trying to garden next to you!!! Pulling those deer in by feeding them is so hard on neighbors trying to have gardens.
MollyD
You can have some of our rain, we got four inches last night with more on the way.
It's starting to rain right now. They're forecasting some rain each day this week. We'll see. They're wrong more than they're right this time of year.
MollyD
Jyl, we got over 4 inches on my neighbor's rain gauge. We also lost half of our drive to the water. Lost our yard light to the storm also. I am waiting on the insurance agent to call me back about our drive and light. Don't know if it is covered as we are not in a flood plain. But maybe. Funny thing is, the drive washed out the opposite way the water is running now, so it had to come from the other direction and then went back to go down. The road commission just put a new culvert in at the edge of our property next to our neighbor's (crossing the road), because the old one had collapsed last year. Good thing they did or we would have been flooded out completely.
We did have a tornado over our town, but it didn't touch down.
GG
It would be interesting to see a study done on the cost of owning a horse for transportation and the cost of a car. With just the cost of the car itself though, I imagine it still costs more to operate a car......maybe not though. If you figure time at a per hour rate somewhere....as in time involved in taking care of a horse, housing and food costs, getting it in its gear to travel, and then the time involved to get to one place to the next.....
Like I said....it sure would be interesting to see.
I'm not sure how many inches in rain we have gotten. I do know that everywhere I walk I squish and in some places I just flat out slide in the mud. I'm going to have put down a welcome mat in the inside door of the hen house, so they can wipe their feet...(yeah, right) their little feet are so muddy that our eggs are getting dirty. ugggg.
And our garden. This is our first year for it to start....so there are weeds, grass, and baby maple trees fighting with the plants to grow......and we can't get in there to do anything about it....mud. Believe me, I tried and it just gunks up the hoe something awful.
I just hope our poor plants don't drown in it all!
Christy
Don't forget vet bills for the horse! Just leaving their practice to your home is a $28. charge then it goes up from there. Most bills for vets run around $150. plus whatever procedure / medicines are required. There is also a farrier's bill since your horse will need to be shoed if it's going out on roads. The list goes on from there!!!
MollyD