A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[duluthralphie]

My honeycrisp gave me apples at 3 years old..enough I had to pick some and use them green to keep the tree from bending over..


My Evans cherry has given me one cherry... but that has more to do with the deer than the cherry tree...next year should be better.. they grow safely inside a 7 ft electric fence now.

 

[CindyinSD]

Thanks, R2... I’ll definitely check it out. Do you know how long your frost free (relatively, I mean) period is? We’re at about a mile high and that’s been my challenge. Conservatively, we have 89 days. The trees can survive if they can get a good start, but the blossoms freeze... or the fruit, if it’s susceptible, freezes.

 

[R2elk]

My Evans cherry has given me one cherry...

I got enough off of my three 4' to 5' tall Evans Bali trees to make 3 cherry pies and 4 batches of cherry jam. The jam was awesome. I planted a bunch of the seeds in the garden along with some Yellow Chokecherry seeds in the fall of 2017. A number of the trees came up. I may transplant some of them next spring or I might leave them in the garden for another year.

 

[R2elk]

Thanks, R2... I’ll definitely check it out. Do you know how long your frost free (relatively, I mean) period is? We’re as about a mile high and that’s been my challenge. Conservatively, we have 89 days. The trees can survive if they can get a good start, but the blossoms freeze... or the fruit, if it’s susceptible, freezes.

I am at one mile high. They have two more weeks of growing season in town than I have here. The last frost is usually the last week of May but has been as late as the second week of June. The first frost is usually the first week of September but has been as early as the 21st of August.

The Evans Bali cherry trees bloom later than all of the other cherry trees and have not been frost damaged at all and have produced even when the fall, winter and spring killed my fully mature Russian Elm trees.

 

[CindyinSD]

They have a lot of info on many of their trees, not as much as I need on others. Lately it’s been a bit more mild. (I am team global warming—don’t shoot) but I’ve seen the last killing frost in early July and it’s not all that unusual.

I found some apples that might work at least in more than a few years. Couldn’t find the Evans Bali cherry there. Maybe they’ll add it later. I’ll call and talk with them tomorrow. Thanks!

 

[aliciaplus3]

I am at one mile high. They have two more weeks of growing season in town than I have here. The last frost is usually the last week of May but has been as late as the second week of June. The first frost is usually the first week of September but has been as early as the 21st of August.

The Evans Bali cherry trees bloom later than all of the other cherry trees and have not been frost damaged at all and have produced even when the fall, winter and spring killed my fully mature Russian Elm trees.

Wow sounds like you live in my town!

 

[Bantambird]

It can be a problem with both. Turkeys can become very friendly if you bond with them when they are older. If you imprint them when they are poults, they lose the ability to understand that people are not turkeys.

My daughter's tom Ablyn definitely has this problem. He is in love with me and all the females of the household. He sees my son as a rival tom and he won't challenge my husband. Ablyn has a shoe fetish too. It's pretty silly, but he's mostly harmless since my son simply avoids Ablyn.

 

[CindyinSD]

I left my pullets pretty much alone except for necessary care until the last few weeks. Now they’re nearly to the egg laying stage (hopefully) and some of them have strangely started allowing and even, a few of them, seeking my attention. So maybe it all works out. I like being able to pet and pick them up and it will make catching them easier (I hope), when I need to do that.

I don’t want them thinking I’m one of the girls, much less do I want a mature Tom thinking I’m one of the flock. So... I guess that’s the way I’ll play it with the poults this spring. Unless I change my mind.

 

[duluthralphie]

My daughter's tom Ablyn definitely has this problem. He is in love with me and all the females of the household. He sees my son as a rival tom and he won't challenge my husband. Ablyn has a shoe fetish too. It's pretty silly, but he's mostly harmless since my son simply avoids Ablyn.

It could be worse.,.....I lost my buckeye rooster to a Tom or two. I keep telling the spare roosters not to sit on the floor of the coop for too long or they will be gang raped by the Toms...The Buckeye did not believe me is my guess,....may he RIP.

 

[duluthralphie]

I left my pullets pretty much alone except for necessary care until the last few weeks. Now they’re nearly to the egg laying stage (hopefully) and some of them have strangely started allowing and even, a few of them, seeking my attention. So maybe it all works out. I like being able to pet and pick them up and it will make catching them easier (I hope), when I need to do that.

I don’t want them thinking I’m one of the girls, much less do I want a mature Tom thinking I’m one of the flock. So... I guess that’s the way I’ll play it with the poults this spring. Unless I change my mind.

For me the worst thing would be having a Tom that imprints on a person, and is used to being held, flying up and landing on a shoulder when a person is not ready for it..

My Toms sort of think of me as the alpha Tom. They are a pain because of it, but they seldom challenge me,,,,and if they do the challenger suddenly disappears from the flock. I make sure I walk straight towards them and do not veer to the side...BUT I also make sure I do not chase them...If they get too close behind me I simply give them a size 13 to the chest...Seems to work.

I wish I could have another JJ, that would follow me, sit by me, protect me and never challenge me. I think he was a once in a lifetime Tom.