Help - Can you identify this turkey breed?

[memphis]

I converted an 8x16 coveted dog run when I found Daisy. Then I bought her a roommate. He will need a friend. The back third of the run is a three sided wood shed with a 34" high 5 foot long 2x4 roost. So they can get out of the wind. It doesn't get really cold here and their shed is purposely not enclosed.

I do recommend getting him a roommate, or two!

 

[memphis]

Better yet..send him to Memphis & he can hang out with my two girls!
Have you named him yet? Is he taking treats from you yet?

 

[Goronson Chicks]

Here in Maine in deep winter there's not much room to be let out. So, right now he's free all day but in at night. Beginning in late December he will have to be confined to a en all day and house at night. The snow is up to our waists in the backyard by early February.

We also have 2 coyote packs in the woods. Always worry that he will be taken if unsupervised.

 

[Goronson Chicks]

I just got the Yard Sentinel.Hope it will help to foil the coyote population.

 

[Goronson Chicks]

I bet he'd like your girls - he's quite a show off!

When I throw him grapes, he takes them very delicately off the grass. Nothing by hand yet, but tonight he let me carry him from one pen to the next. He felt like velvet. Very heavy! Always easier to pick up a bird after dark.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I'm in Wisconsin, we do stop free ranging in winter, I put hay down on the snow and the turkeys stand outside most days, so your boy will want to stand in the sun, I sometimes shovel the run, but most of the time I don't have to because they stomp it down walking around.

 

[Goronson Chicks]

Yes, I did find a listing nearby for "rare blue silver turkeys" and I thought that a nice female of that sort would be good? How old should she be?

 

[Goronson Chicks]

OK. That's good advice.

 

[Goronson Chicks]

His name is Tommy. ( I guess that's not too imaginative but it does fit him. Sweet eyes.)

 

[memphis]

If we had snow like that down here we'd all be dead! We dont even have snow plows! Our gloves are purely decorative. Mine free range during the day.
With the coyotes you do need to protect him!