I can certainly relate to that. all the fruit trees have zero dropped fruit because the poultry patrol keeps the orchard picked clean. I only get really annoyed when the turkeys see fit to fly into the apple trees and knock apples out of the tree.
A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.
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Hello everyone, it's your favorite or not so favorite, MIA, Turkey Partents, again sorry I've been absent so much, life is a real drag these last three years. My father passed away in April 2018, a month later my wife was diagnosed with stage 3 kidney disease, a month after that I lost a very close friend to pancreatic cancer. The environmentalists got all logging shutdown down for a short spell, so I wasn't able to work in the woods, we made it by just running the heavy equipment. Athena, the pretty young girl in my profile picture, had her crop ripped out by a dog during our down time, the vet was able to patch her up but she had problems with crop stasis, and we ended up losing her to heat stress a year later. Artemis the young girl in the picture below is trying to fill the void, she comes when she's called she, she even freely climbs on my arm, and she'll pin me down for absolutely no known reason and sit in my lap. I don't know why I do it but I let myself get attached to these birds and allow myself to get hurt every time. Oh and during everything else going on I developed a severe case of tendinitis that has made it impossible to run a saw safely, and we're now looking at a kidney transplant for my wife
Wow it's been a rough patch for you and yours. Prayers that the future is better.
One of my sweetgrass girls, Egret, has very interesting eyes. Not sure if it is something that will effect her vision later on or if it's just purely visual.
One eye is very clear brown, like a normal turkey eye. The other one is the same color, but it has black fading in from the left and her pupil looks really small. It's super weird. Never seen anything like it. They've looked like this since I got her so it's not just a lighting thing either. She acts like she can see just fine, though, nothing like my other partially blind girls.
One eye is very clear brown, like a normal turkey eye. The other one is the same color, but it has black fading in from the left and her pupil looks really small. It's super weird. Never seen anything like it. They've looked like this since I got her so it's not just a lighting thing either. She acts like she can see just fine, though, nothing like my other partially blind girls.
Is she related to the other part blind girl?
Nope not at all that im aware of. my 2 blind girls are lilacs from 3 years ago, these are sweetgrass maybe 3 or 4 months old. I did get them from the same breeder, but she only had baby sweetgrass and no adults to breed them from so I assume she got hatching eggs.
How do you prevent wild turkeys from joining a domesticated turkey flock? We rarely saw wild turkeys before, but this year we have a ton due to wildfires. Sometimes they stay all day. I wish my domesticated turkeys would chase them off, but mine are too young. Would a mature tom chase away the wild turkeys?
No.
Check your state laws before you do anything. You may need to contact your local game warden or DNR agent.
Here the only legal way to keep them out is to fence them out. I currently have 2 wild hens that have joined my flock. My only legal recourse will be to purchase Fall Turkey licenses and shoot them.
I try not to post about our personal problems because you folks don't need to hear it. I get on Facebook, to try to drown out my problems, by seeing there are people who have it worse, then I end up on a 30 day ban because I see something totally stupid and I can't help but say something exactly how I would say it if the person was standing in front of me. Not to mention I haven't been getting any notifications for this site, and I thought I had that squared away.
I don't want to kill them or anything. I just don't want them to join my flock. I want less birds, not more.
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