Look who I found in my coop last night!

[Acre of Blessings]

Quote:
Just wait until you step in a heaping pile of turkey poop....................

 

[ODS-n-ENS FARM]

Could she belong to someone? Bronze turkeys look almost identical to wild ones. Also it is not recomended to keep turkeys and chickens together because turkeys can get a disease called"blackhead"

 

[gritsar]

The look on that roo's face in the second pic just screams to me. It's say: Jeez, I thought I was being a good roo. You didn't have to bring in the big guns!

 

[AtRendeAcres]

What does blackhead do?

I have tried to shu her away but, she likes it her!

I have Broad Breasted accross the street (((she is wild has a different build)))

I have spotted a flocks of turkey around I don't know what happened to hers!

she usually roost up in the pine trees at night

 

[al6517]

That is really cool, just watch out with housing them together, blackhead disease is very common when they interact closely. just a note it is not bad for the chickens just the turkey.

 

[ODS-n-ENS FARM]

Had to look it up http://aaqmacke.proboards62.com/index.cgi?board=info&action=display&thread=345 My dad who grew up on a large turkey farm and has always said to keep them seperate.

 

[MNKris]

Quote:
Actually, the wild animals are probably a lot less likely to have mites than your domesticated ones.

Those Wild Turkeys are getting to be a problem around here in MN. They are chasing out all the pheasants.

All I know is that they stand on the roads looking at you like a herd of buffalo and they won't get out of the way. I always heard you rarely see a true wild turkey in the day, but at dawn when I am headed to work I see groups of 10 to 15 chicks with their mothers running around. And yes, these are the supposedly "wild" ones. No farms in sight.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Aww... she wants to be a chicken and hang with the popular crowd!

 

[ODS-n-ENS FARM]

Quote:
Popular or Pampered? lol

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Same thing around here.

I bet she's just thinking "I'm a chicken on the inside!".