A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[Mimi13]

Actually, R2elk is right, when you figure feed costs and work you’re much better off selling them as babies.

or as breeding pairs in the next spring.

Yeah, but like y’all have figured out I would be a bad influence on the “little tommies,” so I don’t need to be trying to raise them for breeding pairs. I’d have to let them go as lit’lens!

 

[Mimi13]

I very rarely sell any turkeys as food. Most people want an already processed bird if they want it for food. I sell live birds.

Good point!

 

[duluthralphie]

Yeah, but like y’all have figured out I would be a bad influence on the “little tommies,” so I don’t need to be trying to raise them for breeding pairs. I’d have to let them go as lit’lens!

But on the other hand if someone wanted a turkey with deep psychological deficits from an unloved youth, and lack of parental cuddling, you would be the perfect person to buy them from..

 

[Bantambird]

I very rarely sell any turkeys as food. Most people want an already processed bird if they want it for food. I sell live birds.

I see r2elk's ads when I'm scrolling turkeys on Craigslist often. Because of how few overall turkeys there are for sale, craigslist ads for turkeys reach pretty far. Plus I'm only 4-5 hours away.

 

[Mimi13]

I see r2elk's ads when I'm scrolling turkeys on Craigslist often. Because of how few overall turkeys there are for sale, craigslist ads for turkeys reach pretty far. Plus I'm only 4-5 hours away.

That’s pretty cool.

 

[R2elk]

That’s pretty cool.

People have come from farther away to get my birds.

 

[Mimi13]

People have come from farther away to get my birds.

I’m amazed people will drive that far.

 

[R2elk]

I’m amazed people will drive that far.

Out here, even in state trips can be over several hundred miles. Of course here that is only a 3 hour trip at the most.

 

[Mimi13]

Out here, even in state trips can be over several hundred miles. Of course here that is only a 3 hour trip at the most.

Three hours - one way, though, for a bird, a gobbler at that! In that cold, cold state, brrrrrr.

My aunt and uncle bred paints in Big Piney. I never quite figured out why in the world someone would want to punish themselves that much as to tend to animals in the dreadful cold. But now I know a bunch of people who do that. All of y’all here on BYC!

 

[R2elk]

People don't normally show up for just one tom. Hens sell much better than toms do. I have had people come for as few as a pair or as many as 16 at one time.