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elevan said:
The guy had just won a small lottery jackpot and so wanted to spread the wealth around. I'll most likely donate a turkey to a needy family in order to pay it forward.
sounds like an awesome way to pay it forward
 

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Sunny & the 5 egg layers said:
That is great! How many did you order? What breeds?
I ordered 15 Broad Breasted.

Then I'll search for a Bourbon Red tom to cover 2 BB hens that I'll keep...plan is to breed Bourbon BBs for next year :)
 

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Here's the plan for the next few months:

Turkeys arrive in mid April and will be brooded in the coop that will eventually be for geese.

While turkeys are brooding we will build a hoop coop to house the turkeys.

Once turkeys are moved to hoop coop we will get geese (mid to late May).

Geese will brood and permanently house in our old chicken coop.

We will be building new quail cages (a design that hit me earlier today and I'll try to remember to make a page for) and getting quail again in June.

Meanwhile I had a brilliant idea for a duck coop...we'll see if it works in reality as well as it does in my head...I'll share pics if it does.
 

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Oh, and I invited my neighbor to join us here at BYH. I really hope me up on it! Her kids raise steer and pigs for the fair and she has a horse.


autumnprairie said:
Whatcha waiting on ....?
 

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We're doing Boingo's curve today.

8am reading...

Blood glucose: 261
Urine glucose: 1%

So he'll be getting an extra unit of insulin when he eats in about 10 minutes, putting him at 13 units right now.


I feel really bad cause I had to poke him twice to get the blood reading. But I listened to DH and that's the reason that I had to poke him twice.
 
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