Turkey Talk for 2014

[gardengoats11]

Snood strutting this morning.

 

[chickadoodles]

He is very handsome

 

[K Epp]

I have to share this funny going on at the farm. Rhett my 2 year old Bourbon Red tom is outside calling to chicken chicks. He has started roosting out side. I always lock everything up, but I gave up trying to wrestle a 30 lb tom into the barn every night. The chicks who are about 4 weeks old have found a gap at the door they can squeeze through. They come out when they hear him and he plays daddy until I open the barn and the chicks go back to their Mama. Rhett is a good boy. He also stands out side the garage and talks to the poults in the brooder.

 

[chickadoodles]

That is funny he's a great daddy! Gotta love him!

 

[chickadoodles]

We have 3 of the 9 pens done so far and the BBW and BBB love their new home they fly in circles they are so happy!

We still have to order the heavy duty tarp for the roof to cover all the pens. I have baby chicks in two grow out pens and the turkey in one so far. But Three pens will be for turkey.

 

[K Epp]

That is funny he's a great daddy! Gotta love him!

He is a good boy. When I had a Narri tom with a bad attitude he would try to stay in between me and him. He doesn't get close enough to be petted, but will follow me around the yard and grab and run with a treat. I didn't raise him and i know I am the 3rd owner, but he has a home now and knows it.

 

[chickadoodles]

He is a good boy. When I had a Narri tom with a bad attitude he would try to stay in between me and him. He doesn't get close enough to be petted, but will follow me around the yard and grab and run with a treat. I didn't raise him and i know I am the 3rd owner, but he has a home now and knows it.

I just love turkey they are so amazingly different than chickens! And yes they are protective. I had a Narri tom and a black hen that was not friendly at all and one day she flew at my face, but my tom jumped up and bounced her off his chest to protect me! Your Narri sounds like a keeper!

 

[K Epp]

No the Narri was the devil. Rhett the Bourbon Red is the good boy.

 

[desertmarcy]

CA has many breeders that do not follow the NPIP--- one in particular follows the old school of if his birds are exposed and can't handle it, it gets culled, leaving those that can resist to carry on the breeding. The dificulty I have and many of us do, our stock have come from hatchery stock with little exposure and natural selection or we are acquiring breeds that are new to the US and therefore new to our local diseases.

So in the end it is all to support the commercial producers, no one gives a fig about hte backyard flocks.

I totally agree with this!

 

[Arielle]

Rhett sounds like a keeper!! What a good daddy to all babies.


Chickadoodles-- love the set up-- you have put a lot of thought in to the design and a lot of work in to the construction. ( "You" meaning your family. )

DesertMarcy-- I value the commercial industry as most people have no idea that they could grow their own food, but a spade is a spade.