A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[memphis]

Now they are talking about rain this weekend. Darn...Daisy has been prepping for her photo shoot all week. She'll be disappointed.

Annie's tail is almost grown in. She seems less grumpy, but is still dropping feathers. Her molt is progressing at a slower pace than Daisy's. Daisy seemed to drop all feathers at once.

 

[sfgwife]

Totally off topic, one fall I had Mountain Chickadees show up They are fearless little birds. They really like the thistle seed I put out to lure Goldfinches. The procedure is to go to the feeder, dig out a single thistle seed, carry it to a comfortable perch, hold it between their feet and hammer it with their bill until they get that single thistle seed peeled at which time they eat the seed and start the procedure all over again. Talk about a lot of work for a tiny return!

How dare you not go crack open thistle seeds for the chickadees! Meanie!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Look what I got today! One of my neighbors stopped by today and asked if we wanted it. I guess they sold the farm that they've been trying to sell for a couple years and was clearing out some "junk". I'm all about it! I guess they figured we'd be an easy way to get rid of it. Now, it'll be a little less difficult to figure out how to seperate for breeding next year!

 

[memphis]

That's a nice run Aurora! I'm looking forward to your breeding results this spring....the pencilled mystery...love a mystery!

Rainy day ahead. We need it. Birds don't seem to mind.

Daisy hopping & dancing on our walk yesterday evening. Annie focused on grazing. Neighbors wandering about got a kick out of a turkey dancing her way down the sidewalk. Turkey girls sure loving the cooler weather. Cooler weather, acorns everywhere, new feathers...geez...why not dance!!

 

[Molpet]

Look what I got today! One of my neighbors stopped by today and asked if we wanted it. I guess they sold the farm that they've been trying to sell for a couple years and was clearing out some "junk". I'm all about it! I guess they figured we'd be an easy way to get rid of it. Now, it'll be a little less difficult to figure out how to seperate for breeding next year!

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Nice score

My boys are starting to fight
and the girls are twirling

 

[memphis]

Friends of mine sent me information on an artist that has mounted a show (at a gallery in Charlotte) entitled "Unsliced: Turkeys Off The Plate". Sybil Fix is the artist. Her statement about the show is "to free them from the invisibility to which they have been relegated".
I have no idea how to import the link. But if you Google the artist you can pull up info on the show.

Just thought it was interesting there is an artist featuring turkeys in a show!!

 

[R2elk]

Friends of mine sent me information on an artist that has mounted a show (at a gallery in Charlotte) entitled "Unsliced: Turkeys Off The Plate". Sybil Fix is the artist. Her statement about the show is "to free them from the invisibility to which they have been relegated".
I have no idea how to import the link. But if you Google the artist you can pull up info on the show.

Just thought it was interesting there is an artist featuring turkeys in a show!!

Copy the URL and then paste it into your message or copy the URL, type the name of what you are linking to, highlight that name, click on the link button (next to the A in the message header), paste the URL into the text box, click on Insert.

https://dogandhorsefineart.com/exhibit/sybil-fix-unsliced-turkeys-off-the-plate/

Unsliced: Turkeys Off The Plate

 

[memphis]

Thanks R2elk! I love the title of the show..."Unsliced: Turkeys Off the Plate". Clever.

 

[sfgwife]

Silly birds! Yesterday we had five turks runnin amok catchin bugs and just a chatterin away at each other.... in the yard and pastures! Boneheads! Two toms and three hens were the convicts. The hens will go in and out of their fence... the toms... not so much. So at bedtime we were chesin two goobers throughh the woods to go abed. Eesh! We were late and everyone was quiet last night so the boys felt no hurry to go in the gate to get to their ladies. I was quite tempted to go make someone mad and makin noise but i was good and didnt. The fence doesnt have a top rail but it has cedar posts which evidentally are amazing roosts lol! It is nothin to look out amd see a hen or five perched atop them daily. Our pastures were just hayed for the last time this year and the bugs and stuff were callin i spose. The best part is when a hen wanders too far and cant hear her friends call... to see her doin the boot scoot boogie across the yard tail fanned runin full out to get back jus a fussin. Our pastures are right in front of the house and we have one on either side of the drive. Yesterday the wanderer was in the middle of the left one with chickens til she realized they were not her peoples. Then the world as she knew it was gonna end.

 

[memphis]

LOL...turkeys can be so dramatic!!