HomesteaderWife - Tales from Wolf Branch [05/10/2023 - The New Fella!]

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Just got our first raccoon of the year after some careful scouting! We noticed some scat that appeared to be raccoon, having some seeds in it. I suggested placing a trap here and we've checked for the past two days. We just found a raccoon in it! Can't wait to get this skinned and tanned. Hopefully we will be selling some tanned furs this year- I am very excited!

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Coonskin cap!!!

I have been seriously considering this, but I told my husband I want to make a cap out of whatever I trap when I set my first foot trap. I am hesitant to use this fur for a hat because my husband and I both agreed that we need to wait til later on to start trapping again. It's been so warm here lately that even though the coon had bushy, thick fur...it was shedding!
 

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I have a soft spot for raccoons. We really love 'em . Their fur is beautiful, but I'm sure I could never kill one.

About that egg, my Nannie had a hen that consistently laid double-yolked eggs. And 2 Easter eggers, back in the 70's. They were pretty rare then. We would ooo and ahh every time for the first few months she had those EE's. Also, twinning can be hereditary, so if you have a hen laying double-yolks, whe might do it all the time. How long have you had her? Is this just a fluke, or could it be her norm? It really is exciting!:D
 

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It was a double yolk but not a whole other egg :D
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Hi HomesteaderWife. :frow I've just recently become aware of you here on BYH. I've been enjoying reading your journal. I was holding off on commenting until I got to the end. However, just HAD to comment on your humongous double yolk egg. :celebrate

We have a turkey hen (Edith - named by our DD, so we wouldn't butcher her :lol:), that we inherited when we bought our homestead last October. She laid eggs this summer, but stopped when she molted in Early Fall. She recently started laying again. After the first few eggs I found a HUGE egg that turned out to be a double yolk egg.
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The "large" brown egg next to it came from one of our Red Sex Link hens, that are proving to be egg laying machines! We seem to be getting almost an egg a day from each of them, in spite losing daylight hours. For now, our remaining hens aren't laying. :hit We're hoping to get more eggs after we put lights - on a timer for 16 hours of light a day.

Here is a photo of 2 of Edith's normal eggs with her humongous egg!

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Keep up the good work, you and DG are going a great job. :thumbsup

Edited for clarity: DG was supposed to be DH!
 
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Also, twinning can be hereditary, so if you have a hen laying double-yolks, whe might do it all the time. How long have you had her? Is this just a fluke, or could it be her norm? It really is exciting!:D

It has been the only double yolk egg so far from her, so I don't think it will be all the time! If it was, that would blow my mind. Finding that one egg was bad enough, I'd be losing my mind is she laid like that all the time! :D =D
 

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Keep up the good work, you and DG are going a great job.

Thank you for sharing those photos- I was shocked to see that a turkey could do the same! I have to ask, what does DG mean? I finally learned that things like DH meant dear husband and such but this one stumps me. You'd think I would know internet slang by now but I am lacking!
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Thank you for sharing those photos- I was shocked to see that a turkey could do the same! I have to ask, what does DG mean? I finally learned that things like DH meant dear husband and such but this one stumps me. You'd think I would know internet slang by now but I am lacking!
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LOL! :lol: I'm posting on my phone, and the keyboad is so tiny I often hit the key on either side of the one I want. :he DG was supposed to be DH! :barnie :gig
 
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