Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

Morning. Pen making day today.

 

[jermoatc]

Hello. I am receiving 20 turkey poults in early April. 10 Bourbon Red and 10 Double Breasted Bronze. My plan was to free range them as I do my chickens. A guy at work told me it might be illegal to free range them as the DNR doesn’t want them interbreeding with the wild turkeys. I know this isn’t a problem for the DBBs but I suppose it is possible for the BRs. Do any of y’all know if any of this is true? Do any of y’all free range any heritage turkeys??

 

[MNChickMom]

Morning. Pen making day today.

While you are at it....can you make a rollaway pen for my naughty buckeyes. They seem to think it is acceptable to eat their potential offspring!

 

[duluthralphie]

Bad buckeyes!! Bad!

I have an old working washing machine you could lock the bad bird in....just send @camboy77 over to pick it up..

 

[jerryse]

Planted my tomato seeds yesterday . 6 chickens went to camp yesterday . These were deboned and bones cooked for broth . Very cloudy here . So maybe a resting day .

 

[Cebarmlds]

I also started my tomato seeds yesterday.

 

[bobbi-j]

Hello. I am receiving 20 turkey poults in early April. 10 Bourbon Red and 10 Double Breasted Bronze. My plan was to free range them as I do my chickens. A guy at work told me it might be illegal to free range them as the DNR doesn’t want them interbreeding with the wild turkeys. I know this isn’t a problem for the DBBs but I suppose it is possible for the BRs. Do any of y’all know if any of this is true? Do any of y’all free range any heritage turkeys??

I would think if they stayed on your property it would be legal, but you may want to check into it with the DNR to be sure.

 

[holm25]

Hello. I am receiving 20 turkey poults in early April. 10 Bourbon Red and 10 Double Breasted Bronze. My plan was to free range them as I do my chickens. A guy at work told me it might be illegal to free range them as the DNR doesn’t want them interbreeding with the wild turkeys. I know this isn’t a problem for the DBBs but I suppose it is possible for the BRs. Do any of y’all know if any of this is true? Do any of y’all free range any heritage turkeys??

What the DNR doesn’t kbow doesn’t hurt them. Get them involved in anything and you are gonna start paying for all sorts of made up crap..

 

[bobbi-j]

What the DNR doesn’t kbow doesn’t hurt them. Get them involved in anything and you are gonna start paying for all sorts of made up crap..

There is that... Maybe an online search wouldn’t draw attention to it.

 

[bobbi-j]

So I Googled the question, "Is it legal to free range turkeys in Minnesota". This was at the top of the page that came up: https://www.twincities.com/2016/11/23/organic-free-range-heritage-turkeys-minnesota/

From that, I would get the impression one could free range their turkeys. I could see it being a problem if your birds left your property and got onto State wildlife where there are wild turkeys.