A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[memphis]

That's interesting rjohns. I would have put my money on the owl.
In regards to sauntering turkeys. I find my chickens much more a ambitious foragers. My turkeys are bums most of the day!

 

[rjohns39]

That's interesting rjohns. I would have put my money on the owl.
In regards to sauntering turkeys. I find my chickens much more a ambitious foragers. My turkeys are bums most of the day!

Aside from the feathers found at the crime scene, they were littered across what I'm assuming was the escape path. I'm still scratching my head.

 

[feedman77]

Rjohns: I had an owl get into a pen walked in couldn't fly out(find the door) Was a masscre in the pen. But my adult birds especially the hens were irate strutting and trying peck him thru the wire. I think they would have torn him to shreds if they could have gotten to him.

Sorry you lost a bird. But my resident owls are back as well. Lost a few so far but haven't found him to rehome him.

But it's time for owl to have youngsters and they eat a bunch.

 

[rjohns39]

Rjohns: I had an owl get into a pen walked in couldn't fly out(find the door) Was a masscre in the pen. But my adult birds especially the hens were irate strutting and trying peck him thru the wire. I think they would have torn him to shreds if they could have gotten to him.

Sorry you lost a bird. But my resident owls are back as well. Lost a few so far but haven't found him to rehome him.

But it's time for owl to have youngsters and they eat a bunch.

I have a wide variety of owls around my place--but they generally steer clear of the Turkeys... There are lots of other, less dangerous small critters running around. When I setup the shelters and houses, I try to create an obstacle course to dissuade the Great Horned and has thus far worked. My barn owl a few months ago bounced off the roof of the chicken house and landed on his back, my Toms went after it in a dead run and only after it managed to escape did they fluff up and start gobbling. Haven't had one back since.

 

[rjohns39]

The Livestock Conservancy recently posted a youtube video of an interview they did with Dr. Temple Grandin... She compared those of us who are breeding and raising heritage birds to a living seed bank. I never thought of it that way.

 

[memphis]

Huh...interesting comment by Temple. She's an amazing person.
Hey Feedman...nice to hear from ya.

 

[13ChickenGirl]

Male or female? White is a White Holland and the other two are bronze.

 

[R2elk]

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The white one with its bald head appears to be a tom. The bronze ones with their mohawks and light colored lower edges on their breast feathers appear to be hens. Of course if they are not old enough to have their mature breast feathers then that indicator doesn't work since the juvenile breast feathers of both toms and hens have the light colored lower edge but not the adult toms.

 

[casportpony]

Male or female? White is a White Holland and the other two are bronze.

Beautiful!

 

[casportpony]

The white one with its bald head appears to be a tom. The bronze ones with their mohawks and light colored lower edges on their breast feathers appear to be hens. Of course if they are not old enough to have their mature breast feathers then that indicator doesn't work since the juvenile breast feathers of both toms and hens have the light colored lower edge but not the adult toms.

Goodie, I guessed right!