the 3 are at the top of the age group. fully independent to head out on their own. They set the direction of movement for the rest of the group.
I have an older tom and an earlier hatched female that raised them ,trained them, keep watch out, that the rest of the 10 in the group follow...
Turkey's are naughty critters lol... But they also very good. Spend the day checking on them, changing their direction, sending them out to pasture. With the colder mornings they hover close to the house and barns. 2pm if it's not windy or overcast is when they are ready for a long graze then...
We on the fringe for some freezing temp drops coming our way. My main rogue group has the horse barn. The home group has the goat barn. Left me with a rogue momma and her 5 babies who stays completely outside by a wood pile. Set up an old 8ft long camper shell propped open, on wood...
that is really close, lighting/ distance could of made it appear darker to me, then it was . It feels right watching some videos of them. How cool. We are all open pastures/and the timing for migrating south this time of year. The second day that I saw it, it swooped down right towards me...
am southern colorado east side of the mountains, was both times between 10am and noon. 2nd time it actually flew lower towards me curiosity for both of us...
Beautiful young owl in my area, but I can't find the name of it. Its not a horned owl, it has the head, face and body type like a snow owl, barn owl, but the coloring is light underneath and dark on top, and the circle feathers around it's eyes are dark. Very stunning bird Ive not seen...
I have decided if the jumping front 6ft fence gets to a point, Ill just clip their flight feathers. They were up on the frontal fence and I walked out saying yall better get down and they did jump back down on the property side before I got over to them. lol lol lol lol .. For the most part...
Am greatful, one of my young turkeys hurt her leg really bad, the toes/foot curled under, hip not supporting weight. The leader adult, peck her and peck her getting her to lay down and stay in the barn. After the group left her I went to go check her and when she started cherping the whole...
it's just the one frontal fence that they want to leave the property. Am thinking about running a hot wire along the top of the 6ft fence. They too big to go through the fence, but they want to fly to the top and go over.
everyone hanging out thought it was cute
Consider feeding after the birds have put themselves up for the night, or in the morning when the birds have been let out of the barn for into the yard.
one of the groups, dawn to 3:40pm they graze our 35acs at least twice. Then there is the added escape pasture hopping. They easy to herd up and walk back to the property, they getting to the size they wont be escaping too much longer. Im busy on property all day long that I can check on their...
If it's possible to bring in LGD we have a wildlife trail between our two pastures. Bears/big cats and they walk right by us and go to other farms. My current team is 2 presa's and my remaining senior Caucasian. I really like the presa's as a general farm dog, High prey drive yes, but much...