Misfitmorgan's Journal - That Summer Dust

[Bruce]

Big snake!

 

[Baymule]

An old couple had lived in that house for many years. They moved to their daughter's and the house was sold. That snake probably lived under that house a long time eating mice. A young family rented the house and the lady complained about mice in the house.

 

[Latestarter]

Well gosh, I would guess so after the living mouse trap was eliminated...

 

[Baymule]

I showed her the pictures, scared her to death. She had 3 kids and would rather have had the mice than a resident 5' rattlesnake.

 

[Bruce]

It would keep the kids in line though.
"Do your chores or I'm going to have you clean out under the house!!!"

 

[misfitmorgan]

Um, Mr. Benny was 39 ... for 41 years.

I do believe Mr. Benny may have been mistaken...


Yeah i dont think i would enjoy ever running into a rattlesnake. We have a rattlesnake here but i've never seen it, their range is down state as far as i know.

 

[misfitmorgan]

So DH and i have talked about getting turkey's to raise for butcher and breeding. The problem is historically we can not find poults locally. We have found adult turkey's for sale for $30-50 each which seems very pricey as a set would be $60-100 and a trio $90-150. The secondary problem with the adult turkey's is that they are always 2.5+hrs away plus the return home trip.

I have ordered turkey eggs before and hatched them but only 2 out of 45 eggs survived to hatch and those two poults didnt make it past day 2. So i'm not entirely sure how to go about getting turkey's.

We have discussed ordering poults but as of yet the only turkeys we can find are broad breast...we are looking for a heritage breed. Any thoughts?

 

[Pastor Dave]

I have seen live chicks get shipped. We have Rural King stores around us that has all kinds of chicks each Spring. Anything like that around y'all?

 

[misfitmorgan]

Yes we have a few around us or that will ship to us but they only have broad breasted, we are after heritage like royal palm, bourbon red, slate, etc.

 

[TAH]

I loved my slate. Right now I have HP And they are not my type of bird, I just butchered my male because of aggression.

But I just got a eastern wild male, I will never turn back.

I would highly suggest the Slate, but I've also have heard the RB is good.