how'd I get a turkey

[granmahen]

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Well that's probably my problem. I keep getting chicks from the local feed store. I'm sure they'd take her back but we're thinking not to look this gift turkey in the mouth, so to speak. Hey, do turkey eggs taste good?

 

[MissPrissy]

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Yes, they do.

 

[granmahen]

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Dont's laugh. that's just what happened. The neighborhood smartie first mentioned it and she's only twelve. I looked down my nose and said "The feed store said it was a chicken so its a chicken." Now I feel like a turkey. Cocoa Puff (the turkey) is in with the white deleware, two quail hens and a black silkie hen. Guess DH will have to make a bigger pen cause they are a family now.

 

[granmahen]

Okay, I'm making my list:
1.Take pic to post here. She is dark brown (black?) with white edges on her feathers. 2.enlarge cage 3.suggest feed store employees go back to poultry 101 (you know we thought she looked a little different around the beak but thought the others had pecked her or something. Guess it was or something 4. start my education on raising turkeys.

 

[eggzettera]

How'd I get a turkey?

Well I started by dating him.....

 

[walkswithdog]

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Bwahahahahahahha

 

[kristenm1975]

I'd love to "accidentally" get a turkey hen, but I'm a little worried about the nature of the beast. I went to a very nice lady's house to trade two roosters for hens (what a saint she is to make that kind of trade!!) and was menaced by a very large goose. The darn thing hissed at me and started chasing me if I took so much as one step away from my car and toward the barn where the chickens were. If a turkey has anything like that in its nature, I'll stick to my sweet little chickies, thank you very much!

 

[MissPrissy]

A goose is nothing at all like a turkey.

There is a huge misconception that all farm yard fowl behave the same.

They don't. They are all as different as night and day.

Geese are very territorial - with their environment and their people. The behavior you witnessed is mild. It might have even ran you back into your car and tried to bite you as you climbed in.

A turkey could have either flogged you or sat on your lap.

These animals are more of what you make of them. It is a personal experience. You being a stranger invaded the gooses environment, you were not a common denominator in its world so it was on guard.

Turkeys are sweet but I

geese.

 

[Hobbley_Farm]

Been waiting for a chance to tell this story. My granny had a turkey (don't know if it was a tom or not) that use to chase one specific neighbor back inside her house. EVERY TIME the turkey saw this poor woman, she was run back into the house!

Now this is RURAL Surry County, NC. So the neighbor was NOT very close. Can you imagine? Being afraid to going out in your own yard?

That turkey did not like my Granny's Bird!

That's the only mean turkey story I have ever heard. All the other ones have been that they are sorta daft and not much of a problem aside from the racket they might make.

I can't WAIT to get turkeys!!!

 

[walkswithdog]

Lord, turkeys are nothing like geese and swans. I am tempted to add a goose now that we have hawk problems, that would surprise the sucker.

Though the nature of a turkey varies both in genetic temperament and how it's reared, they are not usually as viciously territorial as geese nor the even nastier white swans.

All species of fowl are different. Lumping them is not correct or useful. And you can get one mean one from sweet parents or sweet ones sometimes from meaner birds because even individuals can vary.

Poults from properly reared stock tend to be quite friendly and curious. Mean fowl of any variety are tasty.

Even my trio who were raised a tad distantly are taming quickly and have not a mean bone in their bodies. And funny, silly and curious. As well as the sense to watch for and alert to hawks.