Turkeys can dig huge holes to dust bathe in. They can eat a lot of vegetables. For some unknown reason they take pleasure in either clipping off or pulling up young onion plants.
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I think turkeys are OCD. Anything sticking out of the ground and not in the order they think they should be get pulled up.
WW has flower boxes on the deck. The deck being the turkeys favorite place to hang out and all, they have decided they are the ones to determine what belongs in the flower box.
WW puts Xmas decorations in the boxes, the turkeys pull them out and throw them on the ground. She put little flags in for the 4th of July. The turkeys pulled them out. She tried those little solar light decorations, butterfly or flower the light up. They offended the turkeys and they pulled them out.
My turkeys really enjoy tomatoes. They are a tad fussy though they will sample 30-40 before deciding on eating one, or that they just aren't hungry for tomatoes.
Even though they dig huge holes to sunbathe in, I do not find them sunbathing in the garden often. They seem to like to bathe with the chickens under the lilacs or in my old lean too off the granary.
Yesterday when I fed them, I left the turkey Toms and roosters until last. They had plenty of feed left from the day before. BUT they refused to shut up. They followed me, and protested the whole time that I was feeding the others first. I felt a tug behind my leg, one of them actually grabbed my pants leg to let me know I had "forgot" them.
As soon as I gave them feed they shut up. They were not interested in eating, a few pecked at it. They just wanted to be first.
Just for fun they decided to unplug the water heaters. I had frozen tanks, so no one got fresh water yesterday. I cannot understand what fun unplugging the heaters can be for them.
I know they are bored, I am hoping to be able to open the doors this week and let them run outside. It has just been to cold and the snow is too deep. One got out the other day and floundered in the deep snow. They can't walk on it, they can't fly out of it. He had to bulldoze through it and he refuse to do that. We had to go into the deep snow, filling our boots with the crap......and try to catch him. Which was easy to do, but each time we touched his butt or tried to lift him up he fought us and jumped about 2 feet so we had to do it all over.
The idiot could not have tried it close to the plowed area...He had to fly 40 ft to sit on a fence and jump off the fence into the snow and then whine about being stuck.
They are a lot like toddlers......
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I’m putting it on my list for when/if the world ever unfreezes.
Really helpful. I’m mostly a visual learner, I think.
