I hope that my 2 Narragansett turkeys will return to me. This noon our new to us Tom turkey and he is in love with quite possibly anything that stands still, including his reflection in the car, storm windows, chicken house window.
We have had them for 3 weeks now left them in their pen and garage for a good 2 weeks and possibly a few days more, well today I decided that they needed to be trusted.
After I went in, we looked out to find 'romeo' (is what I call him- not his name) was taking a shinning to a wild girl...
Which I thought it was cute, until he was in need of following her.
Then I saw our Narri hen disappear with the mixed pair. Keeping an eye on them, 3 large toms rolled him down over the knoll, he was panting, I'm concerned. Molly, the hen and two wild hens come strolling in to look at food in the pen, but saw me and they flew off, while Molly ran back to the Tom.
Needless to say after all that animal drama in the back yard, did I just loose our pair of turkeys?
The hen went off with the other females, wild toms are guarding to make sure our tom stays here.
What do you think seeings I'm a new turkey owner- I hope...
We have had them for 3 weeks now left them in their pen and garage for a good 2 weeks and possibly a few days more, well today I decided that they needed to be trusted.
After I went in, we looked out to find 'romeo' (is what I call him- not his name) was taking a shinning to a wild girl...
Which I thought it was cute, until he was in need of following her.
Then I saw our Narri hen disappear with the mixed pair. Keeping an eye on them, 3 large toms rolled him down over the knoll, he was panting, I'm concerned. Molly, the hen and two wild hens come strolling in to look at food in the pen, but saw me and they flew off, while Molly ran back to the Tom.
Needless to say after all that animal drama in the back yard, did I just loose our pair of turkeys?
The hen went off with the other females, wild toms are guarding to make sure our tom stays here.
What do you think seeings I'm a new turkey owner- I hope...
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