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Silkie Chicken, how are your turkey poults doing? Give us a report.

Quote: I'll defer to the opinion of Benjamin Franklin on this one. Sarah, Franklin's daughter, mentioned, in a letter to her father, that the mint had struck a coin with the profile of an eagle on one side but had botched the job so badly that there was a good bit of debate as to whether the...

Ivan and Silkie chicken (and others), I just wanted to report back that the alpha training with my Red Bourbon tom seems to be going great. We humans all make sure to show some sign of "aggression" when we see him, whether we pick him up and put him somewhere else or use a broom, but...

awww... wasn't that the name of a book ... The call of the wild (turkey). Someone ate a turkey egg from hen #5's nest yesterday. Argh..

silkiechicken, I'm not sure what "meaties" are, but our heritage turkeys are so much more people-interactive than our chickens. They "talk" to us all the time. I wonder sometimes if they're imprinted on us since we had them as day-olds. when they were young, if we were sitting on the porch, they...

Wow, your article about Lancaster is right on, but scary. Turkeys are really ODD. It was suggested to me by a friend that maybe mr. turkey sees his reflection in the car and is running alongside to catch up and fight. Why else would a lazy tom decide to expend SO much energy running? He...

Ivan, The farm sits off the road by several hundred yards, so this is all happening at the house/barn area, away from public traffic. If it was happening in public traffic, I'd never let them free-range. I've been penning them up on market day each week, so that has solved the...

Ivan -- a new development -- apparently my Tom turkey has been running, I mean running FULL SPEED, alongside vehicles. My farmer-neighbor who keeps his cows here said yesterday my tom ran alongside his pickup truck, then ran in front of the truck back and forth several times as it was driving...

Ivan, thank you SO much. this is great info. I wonder if we should post it as a sticky?

Ivan, thanks for the info (and the euphemisms). A question... When you say "trill," do you mean that's a fighting call or a mating call? I assume fighting would mean he'd try to be spurring or pecking you which mine doesn't do. It's just the fact that he's now making bodily contact!! My tom...

anyone?

Our RB turkey tom and hens were raised here since they were day-olds. They're now about 9 months old, and they free-range at my farm and follow us around everywhere. They're curious and will come right up to you, but won't let you touch them. Now all but 3 of the hens are broody. The tom is now...