A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[R2elk]

Going to be around 70 here today with storms & tornados. Oh yipee....

It is currently 16°F with additional blowing and drifting snow.

 

[Flashpoint]

I love your stories with your neighbors stopping by! They always make me smile!

I think I wound prefer your weather today....

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Aurora, I totally agree on the weather. ANY ice from before a "measurable" trace to more is just too much.

 

[memphis]

I wonder if the weather dorks are ever embarrassed when they blow a forecast. Rain was supposed to move in this afternoon. It's been rain like crazy....complete with thunder & lightning for several hours now. A swing & a miss!!

 

[memphis]

Aurora...I'm lucky to be in a great neighborhood. Neighbors have grown fond of the girls. It's an oddity....turkeys living in the city and they seem to appreciate them. But seriously....what's not to like?? I have a social group of hens. They seem to love the attention. Most folks really fall for them after they meet them. You should have see the haul of Halloween pumpkins they ended up with! Half the neighborhood showed up with their pumpkins for the girls. There will be more after Thanksgiving when everyone changes to Christmas decorations. We have so many young couples with kids....and the kids love the girls. Parents get a kick out of that too. And it's fun for me to raise turkey awareness! LOL!!

 

[memphis]

Good luck with any ice! It's the worse...

 

[aliciaplus3]

Aurora...I'm lucky to be in a great neighborhood. Neighbors have grown fond of the girls. It's an oddity....turkeys living in the city and they seem to appreciate them. But seriously....what's not to like?? I have a social group of hens. They seem to love the attention. Most folks really fall for them after they meet them. You should have see the haul of Halloween pumpkins they ended up with! Half the neighborhood showed up with their pumpkins for the girls. There will be more after Thanksgiving when everyone changes to Christmas decorations. We have so many young couples with kids....and the kids love the girls. Parents get a kick out of that too. And it's fun for me to raise turkey awareness! LOL!!

I am lucky and live out in the country but we often have folks stop and gawk at my chickens and coops from the road

could have something to do with having silver turkeys in one of the coops closest to the road?

 

[memphis]

Hey...never underestimate the allure of a turkey! LOL!

 

[Eric Exley]

i'm hidden so deep in the woods that its almost impossible for anyone to find us (even when they are lost), seemed like the people who come out to read our meters are more afraid of my geese, and turkeys than they are afraid of dogs (at one time long ago i used to have one tolouse gander that was so aggressive to strangers we had to keep him penned up when anyone came over), and back when i had Big Tom, my Golden Narragansett turkey, he scared anyone that didn't know him (and he doesn't even try)...

As for the weather out here, we had a severe storm come through at about 5am, the worst i could see is the roof of my first coop (its about 10 years old) has a dent in the roof (the dent is on the portion that overhangs off the back of the coop)
but now its in the 50's with a light breeze, and perfect for my goats to roam (currently they are behind the house munching on honeysuckle vines, and oak tree saplings), since i don't have a garden until spring they can roam around the house (they are trained to stay close to home, and they follow me around if i'm out there with them), and the best part is they go back into their pen when it gets dark, they stand there awaiting their evening feeding before I lock up their pen for the night

 

[CindyinSD]

We’ve currently got winds in the 20’s and constant blowing snow. No real way to accurately measure it but this morning we had around 6”, so I’m thinking around 8-10” by now. It is dry and fluffy, so that’s something at least.

I knocked a bunch of clingy snow off the greenhouse and next trip up there, I’m bringing a push broom. It’s 19 degrees out but the birdies only had a thin film of ice on their water, so they must be keeping fairly warm in there despite my having the shutters locked open. Their electric fence is buried in drifts. Hopefully the coyotes don’t notice, ‘cause I’m not clearing it out until the wind dies down at least a bit.

 

[CindyinSD]

One of my Black Copper Marian’s pullets was cowering down and a jenny was pecking at her head. I noticed this just as I was preparing to leave after bringing food & water and knocking snow off the greenhouse as high as I could reach with the push broom.

Her little head was all bloody and she’s on her way to being a naked neck. I washed her off, patted her dry and sprayed her little head with Blukote. (Well, hubby did, while I covered her eyes.) I made her some electrolytes with honey, salt, baking soda and water. After the Blukote dried, I fed her an ounce of it. When I came back out to check on her, she was standing up—she had been collapsed on the puppy pad in her kennel. I brought her a little scrambled egg but whether she’ll eat it I have no idea. She made no reaction when I set it down. She has a coffee canister of water and one of feed. I draped the kennel on three sides (but not the top). Is there anything else I should do for her?