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We went to the feed store yesterday and as soon as she saw us, one of the employees said “oh!!” and went running back to the back of the store to get something. She emerged with a little notecard with the name and number of someone who’s trying to rehome her friend’s turkeys and [...] This email already went out to our list subscribers (sign up here) and our Facebook friends and Twitter followers may have seen it too, so apologies for duplicates … We are really sad to have to tell you that we will not have any turkeys available for sale this year. We had significant [...] Yesterday I saw this Lehman’s blog post about feeding turkeys with peanut hearts, which are apparently the little tiny nubbins that you find between the two halves of the peanut. I immediately thought of CB’s Nuts up in Kingston, so I emailed to see if they have surplus peanut hearts. Turns out they do, [...] G: Prefer garlic scapes to turkey ‘scapes. Less hurty. L: Yikes!! G: But they got a size on them and hella vigor. Should store h2o2 in the truck I reckon. (On edit) Lauren suggests that I clarify that h2o2 is hydrogen peroxide and that I include the photo I took [...] It’s our third year with poultry, and the raccoons have finally found us. We are down to one laying duck (from four) — they took one on Sunday, one on Monday, and one on Tuesday. So the hens and remaining survivor duck are all staying inside the coop until we can figure out [...] First the good news! We’ve been getting back in to the swing of things gradually (or abruptly in some cases — when the baby chicks show up at the post office, you’d better be ready!). We’ve gotten rehabituated to the morning routine of opening the greenhouse, watering seedlings, and gathering eggs, and I’m doing [...] Turkeys exploring on their first day out in the world, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. They have been in the tractor for like 7 weeks at this point, and while they have fresh grass in there, this is the first time they have been out under the [...] Baby turkeys are here!, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. They are smaller than I thought they would be! |
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