Oak Insights

John took pictures with my camera today. Lots of pet shots and pictures from a walk through the pines, down to the river, and up the stream trail. Schroeder focused on catching sticks.

We put the chicks and poults in house 1 the night before last since yesterday was going to be rainy. This afternoon, I let them out into the poultry yard.

This year, I decided to invest in incubators to help hatch turkey eggs. In 2011, I borrowed incubators for eggs the setting turkey hens could not handle. Some from a crowded nest and some because of heavy rain in an… Read more ›

Five of the turkey hens took advantage of us while we were having coffee by the fire in the living room this morning; they came in through my office door, which was open for the dogs to use the backyard.… Read more ›

This hen’s id is black and green bands on the left leg. This hen’s id is a green band on the right leg. She is one of the two who hatched out three poults in May 2011. This hen’s id… Read more ›

April 4 through June 11, 2011 As the next step into total poultry immersion, I decided to let the birds breed this year. It makes sense to save the price of buying day-old chicks in our plan to make the… Read more ›

On December 9, some folks delivered five Guinea fowl to us. They couldn’t keep them anymore and we volunteered to take them in. We put them in the unused house in the turkey yard (the turkeys are too big for… Read more ›

The photos of the turkey area are taken from the house roof — a “bird’s eye view” (Thank you, John). The roof structure is 2″ mesh netting suspended from ropes stretched between the surrounding trees. Dennis thought up the suspension… Read more ›

The Narragansett turkeys are four months old. The fourteen heritage birds are exploring the backyard while hanging out with the rest of us—dogs and people. Schroeder is very good with them. Our neighbor dog Cinnamon, a tan lab, isn’t so… Read more ›

The turkeys are five and a half weeks old and they love to come and perch on us when we come in their enclosure. Here, Dennis has eight or nine roosting across his arm span. Notice the one Speckled Sussex… Read more ›