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…December tomorrow.  How did that happen? The turkeys might well look worried… We weighed them last week (not exactly scientific as it involved himself holding a startled looking turkey and standing on the bathroom scales, then taking off his weight etc..)  and they came in at approx 8.5  kilos.  A little lighter than we hoped, [...]

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Yesterday we went over to collect our turkey poults from Sandra of Bellecross Hens.  After a lovely chat and a look around some of her chicken pens, we brought these three home – a better trip than last year – those barked loudly all the way home, but these just whistled at each other. They [...]

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Over the weekend we put both turkeys in the freezer (dead first!).  The limping one was not improving, and so we felt it was time. Then it did seem mean and unnecessary to leave the other one alone. I did wonder i they would be skinny as it is a tad earlier than advertised, but [...]

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Normal routine: checking and feeding the animals this morning, letting the turkeys out etc, but different clothes.  I usually spend my whole time in torn and muddy clothes, as anything will become  torn and muddy, but as I was on my way out this morning,  was wearing a nicer jumper, the stashbustering jumper I made [...]

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ducks and turkeys

The ducks are growing so fast – so much faster than chickens. And why do chickens get blamed for being.. well.. ‘chicken’ about things? Ducks are the scaredy cats.  Ack.. must stop mixing in my animals They are lovely, have outgrown their bowl pond are are making use of an old tin baby bath (complete [...]

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Serious amounts of rain fell today. The street flooded, the drains overwhelmed, and then all that water headed down our lane.  I had to go out with a spade and dig out a trench to save one of the outbuildings. The birds and animals were underwhelmed, and largely stayed in their shelters grumbling.  Actually I [...]

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thick turkeys

After we had the turkeys a few days we noticed they were not getting through a lot of water.  We made excuses.. the hens drink more of course, but there are more of them and they are laying.. a couple of young turkeys wont get through much.  We decided perhaps the level had gone down [...]

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It’s taken us a while to work it out – that harvesting is not something to squeeze in at the end of the day, followed by working late into the evening slicing, blanching and freezing it all…  we have finally grasped that if we want any kind of evening, harvesting is a day time thing. [...]

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