{"id":2502,"date":"2012-08-16T18:27:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T22:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2012-08-16T18:27:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T22:27:09","slug":"after-losing-our-turkeys-to-a-fox-our-remaining-hen-hatched-eight-poults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/08\/16\/after-losing-our-turkeys-to-a-fox-our-remaining-hen-hatched-eight-poults\/","title":{"rendered":"After losing our turkeys to a fox, our remaining hen hatched eight poults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Turkey-on-nest.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2503\" title=\"Turkey-on-nest\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Turkey-on-nest.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe were highly disappointed when a fox (or coyote) got our turkeys, including babies. Then, a month ago, our remaining hen turkey disappeared from the chicken yard. OMG! I hunted through the grass and weeds along the inside of the fence and sure enough, there she was, hunkered down over 10 eggs &#8212; in July! She persisted through a 60 MPH windstorm with inches of rain, heat, and cool nights. Then a day ago, she came off the nest with 8 baby turkeys following her. She&#8217;s a good mom and the brood is doing well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Turkey-family.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2504\" title=\"Turkey-family\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Turkey-family.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"345\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just a note: We have had to cancel our August homesteading seminar due to lack of participants. We only had one person who signed up. I guess the economy is getting worse, huh? Next year we will only have one seminar, in August, to cover canning and other things. We&#8217;ll have more time to advertise and let folks save up who want to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were highly disappointed when a fox (or coyote) got our turkeys, including babies. Then, a month ago, our remaining hen turkey disappeared from the chicken yard. OMG! I hunted through the grass and weeds along the inside of the fence and sure enough, there she was, hunkered down over 10 eggs &#8212; in July! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}