This is our first year without Ruby and Earl: a coyote got them both last year, but they hatched out babies every spring around Mother's Day, one year hatching 19 babies even. She even hatched a gosling one year (I snuck in a couple goose eggs after a raccoon got her first 5 eggs). Dear old birds.
el - Sadly we have no stag turkey so the eggs are infertile. We're on the hunt for a man, and then we will hatch some turkeys. I didn't realise they hatch such big clutches - no wonder you threw in a few goose eggs for variety :) Sorry to hear about Ruby & Earl. We're lucky in the UK not to have any predators bigger than a badger.
Aw! Are you going to let her (them?) hatch it?
ReplyDeleteThis is our first year without Ruby and Earl: a coyote got them both last year, but they hatched out babies every spring around Mother's Day, one year hatching 19 babies even. She even hatched a gosling one year (I snuck in a couple goose eggs after a raccoon got her first 5 eggs). Dear old birds.
congratulations!
el - Sadly we have no stag turkey so the eggs are infertile. We're on the hunt for a man, and then we will hatch some turkeys. I didn't realise they hatch such big clutches - no wonder you threw in a few goose eggs for variety :) Sorry to hear about Ruby & Earl. We're lucky in the UK not to have any predators bigger than a badger.
DeleteSo who got to eat the turkey egg? You or the dogs?
ReplyDeleteLike all delicious treats in this house, it went straight into a cake!
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