Oh yes. He was never destined for the dinner table anyway lol. He's the only Bourbon red from a different line than the others so he was spoiled from the beginning. Boy or girl, he was destined to stay on as a breeder
Hi. We use to buy meal worms as well. I don't know about the ones you asked about. However, have you looked into growing your own? It's much cheaper and it's very easy. We now have thousands of fresh meal worms to feed daily and to get us through the winter. Let me know if you need any help.
It's amazing how friendly and affectionate they can get if you handle them a lot. Adam is my little lap buddy. I can't sit down anywhere outside without him invading my lap lol. The pictures are from the other day, sitting in the garden. Today, he snuggled up on me while I was lounging in the hammock reading. He won't move until I make him either lol
we got our poults around the same time as out meat chicks so they weren't handled all that much either. We were around them a lot, but we didn't snuggle them and carry them around a lot. They are pretty tame and follow me around, but they back off if I try to touch them. The new one we got from CC doesn't know us at all and is SO skittish. She won't even eat out of my feed cup and won't follow me/the food cup back into the run if she gets out. Half the time she's in the chicken run because she jumps the fence and won't follow me out of there - I can't exactly chase her around the chicken run with Romeo in there, not a good message to send to a roo who's been dealing with predator pressure. Silly bird, she paces the fence to get back in there but won't follow me out the door!
I think even having a single turkey with your chickens adds so much fun. This year I didn't hatch a lot of turkeys, so I only sold a few as poults, but I hope to have more of them next year to sell alongside the chicks. I think it would be perfect to have 1 turkey and a small flock of hens in a backyard. I'm pretty sure the turkey would be the leader, whether a tom or a hen, and being so tame, would make the hens act tamer too.
