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Wild Turkey

Last year, we hatched some more turkeys from eggs. One of them we thought was a brown spanish black, because it’s soft little chick fluff was brown and a bit speckled. However, it grew up and we realized what it looked like- A wild turkey hen that was hanging around our pasture a few years ago. Then we realized that the few eggs that were not speckled- our turkey eggs are speckled, and they range between dark and dense speckles to very few or none and we thought that it had just been a normal spanish black egg, but we now think that it was a wild turkey egg- from a wild turkey that flew into the pasture and layed an egg. We don’t know if it is half black spanish or a purely wild turkey, but it is definetly not a black spanish black, even if it is a spanish black!

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New Turkeys

Last year, we hatched more turkeys! We did not get them from the store this time, but we actualy hatched them from eggs from our own turkeys (See: 21 tiny turkeys). And now, this year, those turkeys are starting to lay eggs! Turkey eggs look like duck eggs, with about the same size and color, but our turkeys lay speckled eggs. We also have a turkey that’s egg somehow got into the pasture (See: The next post I put out), and we think it is a wild turkey, and are also quite certain that it is a tom. The eggs tast literaly the same as any eggs- if any difference in ANY eggs, it would be the texture when cooked!

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Chicken eggs

the breese chickens are starting to lay eggs! they are small, but they are still edible. the roosters are getting very feisty, but some of them are still very nice, especially the speckled ones. I still find it fascinating that not that long ago, the chickens where still in eggs. now, they are LAYING eggs. it seems like only a few days ago that they hatched!

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