Day 37

Mike went back to work today and since it was threatening rain, Heather and I decided to spend the day inside painting.  We painted the ceiling of the living room and then put on the first coat of paint on the walls.  Here is Heather up on the ladder.

Bromley has completed 20 days of sitting on her eggs.  Just 8 days to go and we should have little turkeys!  Bexley continues to sit on her eggs.  She is a week behind Bromley.  And now Brighton is sitting on a clutch of eggs in another brush pile in the yard.  She is only a few day into the 28 day hatching cycle.  Here is a picture of Brighton's back and tail.  Her head is hidden under the brush.

Two of the new female turkeys are also sitting on a clutch of eggs in the turkey enclosure.  We got three female turkeys along with Romeo.  Two of them are white and one is brown like the three turkeys Heather already had.  Here is a picture of one of the white ones (not named yet) and the brown one, Desdemona, sharing their nest.  Desdemona has her head hidden under the other turkey's wing.

So we have four clutches of turkey eggs.  If all of them hatch and the poults live, we will have about 2 dozen little turkeys!  Not bad for the first year of our turkey farm!

Sadly, we have no broody chickens so even though we have a rooster for them to produce fertilized eggs, none of them want to sit on the eggs and hatch them.  Maybe when the weather warms up more.

Big day tomorrow trying to keep up with Mike : )  so I'm going to bed!