My snood's bigger than your snood!!!!

[longranger]

Don't feel that way. All turkeys are sweet, fortunately many are sweeter on your holiday table than as pets. Not all of them want hugs. People think I am kidding but the easiest way to get over the fear and guilt of raising turkeys for meat is to have more than you can house or feed. Hopefully you learn your lesson the first year but at very least you get a better perspective on how special these birds are even with their intended purpose.

 

[AHappychick]

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I know how you feel I have BBW I am raising and they are so sweet it is hard to not get attatched to them. I keep telling myself they are meat birds but that does not help much as they all follow me around as if I am their leader and trust me. Each day I am less excited for thanksgiving

 

[chickensioux]

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It's easy to have them for pets and Thanksgiving (I just buy the Thanksgiving one). These boys aren't going anywhere.
Mine are strictly pets, chickens too. But I eat both chicken and turkey, just from the local grocery store. That's just me.....

 

[Heather J]

I finally came to the conclusion that I do, in fact, have a tom and a hen (she's been behind him in growing the ....just lost the word, the red patch of skin under her chin--I feel like such a dork...and the tom has been gobbling for a couple of weeks and is now just starting to grow a snood, but no signs of gobbling or snooding from the girl.

So, no turkey lurkey for Thanksgiving this year, we'll have to stick with Norbest instead, but that means I get to hatch babies next spring, which has me very excited!

 

[KittyKelly]

Love this thread!!!!

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[the Old Rebel]

cwhit590, Victor is the son of two turkeys that are the offspring of a bourbon red hen and a bourbon red/eastern wild tom. He is a FINE-looking fellow, but so are those Blues!! Victor's daddy, who looks just like Victor, won first place at our Mountain State Fair here in Hendersonville, North Carolina, last year.

This whole thread has been a hoot!!!