15 out of 16 turkey eggs hatched. Pretty good for our second year. Read more…
Candling the turkey eggs
Turkey eggs are in the incubator, about to hatch!
Building the Turkey Trailer
High winds in a June storm blew the roof off this old travel trailer in Heath and its owner tore off the sides. Bill and Andrew asked him if we could buy it as the base for our chicken/turkey “tractor.”
Turkeys, and Chickens, and Quails, oh my!
Chicken and quail eggs Haynes’ turkey eggs have another 10 days in the incubator, but two days ago Andrew’s incubator with quail eggs started popping like pop corn! He opened it, they hatched and were hopping all over the place!
Chicken, Heifers, Dairy Cow
This winter I’ve been cleaning out family files. In one battered envelope I discovered a clutch of my dad’s Project Account Books from the Virginia Department of Vocational Agriculture dated 1927, when he was 15. Labeled “Chickens, Heifers, Dairy Cow”. The booklet has columns for recording Date, Kind of Work Done, Man Hours, Horse Hours, and Self Hours. (The italics… [Read More]