Can turkeys swim??

[tonini3059]

Mine can!! The other day my hubby and I were sitting on the dock over our pond feeding the ducks and fish in the water below. The dock is about 5 feet above the water. My two turkey babies..not really babies about 3 months old..were one the dock with us because they wanted some of the bread. So I was feeding both of them pieces when the female knocks the male off into the water. I immediately begin to take off my shoes socks and sun glasses off to rescue him when I notice that he is swimming around with the ducks!!!! Here I am in panic mode thinking he is going to drown and he is just swimming around! He kept following the duck around so I had to throw the remaining bread next to the sure so he would follow the ducks over and my hubby scooped him out. I wish I had my camera it was so funny watching him swim around. So I don't know about all turkeys, but mine is an olympic swimmer.

 

[paulinaydern]

Wow, I had no idea!

 

[chunky_ficken]

That's awesome........I'd a loved to have seen that!

 

[One Acre Wonder Farm]

I would have loved to have seen that too. When I was growing up my dad told me that all animals can swim, "even chickens". Well, I've never had the opportunity to see a chicken swim yet, or even a turkey, but I'm glad to have an eyewitness account that they can!!

 

[MandyH]

I had one drown before so I thought they couldn't, BUT the other day a hen went to roost in a tree above the pond and the limb broke. Well she flapped her wings and skidded across the pond to the bank, and ran like the wind.

 

[tonini3059]

That's funny!

 

[taraann81]

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I have heard that too that ALL animals can swim but it is simply not true. Off the top of my head I know that, Basset hounds supposedly can't swim, orangatangs, chimps and a lot of the land tortoises also reportedly can't swim. I of course have no 1st hand experience its just things I have heard in my adult life

 

[kuntrygirl]

My turkeys can't swim. All they do is stand in the baby pools and cool off with the 100 degree heat in Louisiana.

 

[cashela]

I was watching orangutang (sp) island or whatever it is called and those little buggers were swimming in a river. I don't think they could swim a long distance but they made it across.

 

[chickenannie]

My turkeys got chased into the creek once and supposedly swam across. All I know is that one winter morning I went out at 8 a.m. and 3 of them were covered in icicles (from being in the creek earlier in freezing temps) and they were shivering like crazy, and the other 2 (who had presumably flown across the creek) were walking around just fine. Luckily the shivering ones icicles melted in the sun and they all were just fine. But boy was I mad at the guy that chased them into the creek.