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Re: Ball Pythons, Corn snakes........and Turkeys? Chickens too!
Wow...this is all so neat! I've always wanted a small flock of turkeys and chickens. I've been trying to convince my poultry-hating parents to let me get a couple fertile eggs shipped in. How would you reccomend incubating them? In just a plain hovabator?
Oh, and re-welcome to the site!
And I'm sorry about your emu. He was so adorable! And your turkeys are huge! How long do they take to get that big?
Ball Pythons
1.0 Normal "Draccy"
0.2 Normal "Matika", "Lara Croft"
1.0 Lesser Cinny "Thor"
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Re: Ball Pythons, Corn snakes........and Turkeys? Chickens too!
Welcome! Looks like your homstead is doing great. I know you from fauna too...though I haven't been on there in a while. We talked about chickens a while back. Maybe you remember me from this: www.tarazod.com/filmsmadchicks ?
Anyway...
So, sorry your Emu died he was very cute!
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Re: Ball Pythons, Corn snakes........and Turkeys? Chickens too!
Hiya Crazy, er Cheryl, welcome back.
I'd preen, but who'd believe I was proud, meek and mild me, you know?
Glad to see you here. I thought you had gotten out completely at the end of last season. I'm glad you didn't. Such determination is admirable.
Thanks for looking for me.
Wes
I may not be very smart, but what if I am?
Stinky says, "Women should be obscene but not heard." Stinky is one smart man.
www.humanewatch.org
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Re: Ball Pythons, Corn snakes........and Turkeys? Chickens too!
Nope~ not giving it up~ too stubborn to give it up~ but I let it get NO FUN~ so I'm cutting the collection back down to fun. Thinking I need to cut it even more than I have~ I still have somewhere between 50-70 snakes right now~ if you count the ones out on breeding loans it's even more. Thats still too many for it to be fun I think. Considering I'm not even looking forward to breeding season this year at all! We'll see~ hopefully the enthusiasm will come back with fewer mouths to feed this coming year.
The poultry~ I've talked with SO MANY people about chickens this year snakelady! I wish I could say I recall our conversation specifically but I just dont. Nice to meet you again though!
Incubators~
I'm using the hovabators I used to use for reptile eggs (Have a big fridge incubator for BP eggs now). I started with the still air ones and hatched a lot of chickens, turkeys and the emu in those. Then this last summer I had a lot of babies go full term and fail to hatch so I bought the turbo fan kits for the havobators and just hatched 32 chicks in one the other day. When the Turkeys start to laying again this year I plan to set the turkey eggs in the hovabators too!
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Re: Ball Pythons, Corn snakes........and Turkeys? Chickens too!
CHERYL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glad to see you here my friend!!!
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Re: Ball Pythons, Corn snakes........and Turkeys? Chickens too!
Hi Cheryl, good to see you here. I don't know if you'll remember me, we used to talk once in a while in Ralph's Chat room. I've never been a huge fauna fan so don't post there much. Hope to see you around here more often.
Your poultry looks great, good luck with butchering the goats. That should be interesting, it's probably a lot like deer.
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Re: Ball Pythons, Corn snakes........and Turkeys? Chickens too!
Hi Heather!
Yes I remember you Mark. Thanks for the compliments on the poultry~ I'm proud of them. As far as butchering the goats~ Did the first goat this morning. A little 2 1/2 month old mini buckling that came into his sexual maturity early and was trying like a real champ to breed my big Boar Doe. It was actually a little funny~ he had short little legs and would launch himself in the air at her obviously just hoping to hit the target! But I don't want my Boar Doe bred by that little mongrel mini buck.........so butcher day got moved up from sometime in January to this morning.
Never butchered deer before~ so I don't know what thats like~ but it was a bit more challenging than poultry I'll tell ya that! The killing part was bad~ gruesome. But it always is. The skinning part was a real challenge~ froze the skin and gonna try teaching myself to tan it later. The meat in in the fridge resting for a couple days. It was hard for me to do~ this was the first little goat born on our property........but it's what we got them for.....
The mother of that little buck is next~ thats going to be more of a challenge~ she is much larger~ but I want to serve her at New Years eve.
If your looking for a New Years party this year we will be having Roast Goat and BBQ chicken out by the fire pit. Y'all are welcome to come on by~ bring your own beverages!
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Re: Ball Pythons, Corn snakes........and Turkeys? Chickens too!
Originally Posted by Cheryl Marchek aka JM
The poultry~ I've talked with SO MANY people about chickens this year snakelady! I wish I could say I recall our conversation specifically but I just dont. Nice to meet you again though!
No problem! The internet's a big place.
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