Stella's Social Club

[debs_flock]

Quote: My Wife toast a fresh bread slice, butters it and puts home made Jam on it.

I do all my preserves in pint jars. DH calls bread a means to transport jam to his mouth. He literally puts a quarter cup on each slice of toast. The Master Food Preserver people laugh at me at fair, I'm the only one that all my entries are in full pint jars. I usually have about 50 entries in soft spreads alone each year. That means I come home from judging with about 6 gallons of jam/jelly/etc open all at once. Somehow it get used, LOL

History channel......
Beginning Sunday, March 3, is a series on Vikings. I think I will record it and watch it. I don't usually watch TV. I wonder if we will see any chickens in this series.

I saw the ads, I've been looking forward to this!

 

[debs_flock]

I just walked into my bedroom and glanced out the window. My first thought..............how'd the turkeys get out? Nope, a flock of 31 full grown turkeys walking by. Of course when I opened the door to the deck they all moved to the far side of the lawn, but it was quite a sight.


I think he was trying to entice her into the next generation............LOL

Deb

 

[mlm Mike]

I just walked into my bedroom and glanced out the window. My first thought..............how'd the turkeys get out? Nope, a flock of 31 full grown turkeys walking by. Of course when I opened the door to the deck they all moved to the far side of the lawn, but it was quite a sight.


I think he was trying to entice her into the next generation............LOL

Deb

WOW, that must have been quite a sight, I'm glad you got a photo to share.

I'll have to watch the Viking series.

 

[kathyinmo]

I just walked into my bedroom and glanced out the window. My first thought..............how'd the turkeys get out? Nope, a flock of 31 full grown turkeys walking by. Of course when I opened the door to the deck they all moved to the far side of the lawn, but it was quite a sight.


I think he was trying to entice her into the next generation............LOL

Deb

LOVE it! So glad you got pictures!

 

[1muttsfan]

Deb, you make me homesick for my last house - the wild turkeys would hang out in the front yard, cleaning up under the feeders. They knew us so well they would not go far, even when my dog would come out with me. No turkeys here, the winters are too harsh and too many trees around.

 

[ronott1]

I just walked into my bedroom and glanced out the window. My first thought..............how'd the turkeys get out? Nope, a flock of 31 full grown turkeys walking by. Of course when I opened the door to the deck they all moved to the far side of the lawn, but it was quite a sight.


I think he was trying to entice her into the next generation............LOL

Deb

That is Amazing! I am so hungry now!

Deb, you make me homesick for my last house - the wild turkeys would hang out in the front yard, cleaning up under the feeders. They knew us so well they would not go far, even when my dog would come out with me. No turkeys here, the winters are too harsh and too many trees around.

All these Turkeys in California are relatively new. They are wild and they do live in the high Foothills to low Mountains here.

These guys are not like the domestic ones. They love trees and have been known to roost 70 feet up in them.

 

[debs_flock]

LOVE it! So glad you got pictures!

Wish I had time to get out the good camera, but snapshots throught the window will have to do.

Actually, last year they were having problems with them taking over down in the valley too. They had taken over a cemetery and were running off the mourners! I only live around 1200 ft and they are everywhere.

I let one of the dogs run them off, turkeys went in every direction, over the fences, up into the oak trees, a few of them flew up over the house. I couldn't believe how many there were. If I let them hang out, I don't stand a chance of having a flower in the yard.

 

[gryeyes]

HHandbasket's MW turkey hens are visited every night by a roving band o' wild turkeys; they gather at the back fence and talk through it to the girls. The MW turkeys have clipped wings, just in case the call of the wild grows greater than that of the shaken feed scoop.

 

[karimw]

Beautiful!

I just walked into my bedroom and glanced out the window. My first thought..............how'd the turkeys get out? Nope, a flock of 31 full grown turkeys walking by. Of course when I opened the door to the deck they all moved to the far side of the lawn, but it was quite a sight.


I think he was trying to entice her into the next generation............LOL

Deb

 

[ronott1]

Deb, you make me homesick for my last house - the wild turkeys would hang out in the front yard, cleaning up under the feeders. They knew us so well they would not go far, even when my dog would come out with me. No turkeys here, the winters are too harsh and too many trees around.

There are a lot of Turkeys in Michigan. This year a group is guessing that they will put out 250,000 pounds of corn for them because to the harsh and early winter.

You must live in a very bad part of Michigan!

This is from the article I read:

There are about 200,000 wild turkeys roaming the landscape today, a far cry from the 784 that were brought to Michigan from Pennsylvania in 1954, the beginning of the state's effort to re-establish the population.

They did the same thing her in California. Now they are a nuisance.