A turkey surprise!

[jessaree]

Our daughter was out riding the 4-wheeler in the pasture this afternoon & comes flying in the yard yelling something about a turkey...we get her calmed down enough to get the story out of her...she saw one of our Rio Grande hens with a baby in the back of our property.

Off we go...sure enough, there's one of our "missing hens" with 2 babies! The first natural hatch we've had!

We'd given our hens up for dead since we've not seen them in a while...now if we could only find Tom!

 

[ivan3]

Great shot! Sure hope your gobbler comes strutting home.

 

[ChanceRider]

Now that's something I'd love to see on our property! Thanks for posting the great pic and congrats on the new babies!

 

[Big Red's Mom]

Oh that would just be great.....

 

[hoosiergal]

wonderful, wonderful

 

[Cyberous]

So you purchased them and they escaped, and had babys in the wild?

COOL!

Don

 

[jessaree]

They didn't "escape". We kept them penned for a long time, then decided to turn them out to free range, they stayed right here, for the most part, but when "mommy time" kicked in, they disappeared.

 

[Cyberous]

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Oh,.. thats really neat!

Don

 

[Struttn1]

Your hen probably hatched a lot more than two and lost them to predators. It is unusual for a tom to leave and not return. I would pen the hens and poults until the poults get older if I were you.

 

[cherig22]

Very nice picture, she is very pretty! Strutting proudly, too.

Cheri