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Love-in-a-Mist
True Blue Farmgirl
367 Posts
Shannon
Independence
Oregon
USA
367 Posts |
 Posted - Nov 28 2007 : 09:43:56 AM
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Henrietta laid her first egg today, on our drive way. It broke and the dogs had a good breakfast. Hopefully, she starts laying them in a "nest".
We bought 5 turkeys early last spring and saved a tom and hen, for "breeding stock". Every year we buy a bunch and decided to try and raise them naturally this year. I was beginning to think we picked the wrong hen to save. We have the standard bronze, which supposedly will still breed naturally. I was getting worried when she hadn't started laying yet. Last year we had some turkey hens that were great egg setters and started laying earlier then this one. But we had already butchered the toms, on account of their attitude. So far this tom is still allowed to free range. I hope Henrietta can figure it out by this spring. I am so looking forward to watching baby turkeys follow their mother around.
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Our first turkey egg!
