The guys put on quite a show for the wild girls,
They are hiding them. Check bags of things. I have a 40 yr old bag of charcoal briquettes that is the chosen spot this yearTrue that.
The Toms seldom come into our yard. The hens do though to tile up my Toms.
I am down to 12 hens in the shed. Including the 2 sharing the nest on the workbench and 3 on the shelf, another hen joined the other two yesterday.
So I have 7 hens that are not broody, I am assuming they are infertile because I have not gotten a turkey egg in days.
There were five handsome wild toms ogling my girls this morning. All my scrappy boys went out to meet them. In an effort to avert an all out strutting war, I headed out and herded my boys back to the proximity of the fold. There has been a luckier (though not grander, that I could see) tom in company of a dozen adoring females hanging about, but today it was just this roving gang of would-be lotharios.
I don't need or want them in the freezers. I just want them and their lice and their federally-owned DNA to go hang out somewhere else.
I don't even need a blind. I can walk right up to the... boys. They don't chase easy.
Hunting season doesn't start until the 15th, though. They'll probably get real skittish real quick by then.
It is more likely that piles of feathers will be found instead.
No, the window has been permanently removed from the screen door. I open the inside door and shoot through the opening. Of course I had to replace the screen door when I did not realize that I was aiming at it instead of through the opening. There was shattered glass everywhere.
