My husband was feeling romantic this morning and brought me home 10 Bronze turkey poults from our local feed store!
They are the friendliest little things! I don't know much about the breed so I will have to do my research. I thought he mentioned the word broad breasted, is that a type of bronze turkey? He didn't say the word standard, is there a difference or are they one and the same?
Our history with turkey's has not been stellar. A year and a half or so ago we were given a Black Spanish Tom and a Midget White hen. The Tom was aggressive and we re-homed him, the little hen was eaten while sitting a nest. We weren't exactly ready to take adequate care of either of them at that time.
So we built a pen and decided to try again, this time buying some Rio Grande poults. You'll have to pardon me, I know I am taking a big risk here amongst all of the turkey lovers, but these poults were the dumbest birds I have ever had the privilege to witness. Seriously. They all ended up drowned, smothered or hung by the neck due to flying into the side of their chain link pen. To this day, I am not sure how it managed to fly straight into the side and get hung by the neck the way it did. Weird.
At any rate, I did love the little midget girl we had for a short while. She had a very endearing personality and I really enjoyed all of her little noises she made. I think turkey's are a very beautiful bird, especially those tom's with their gnarly faces and snoods.
So it really touched me when my DH brought me home these ten little babies! I hope they stay as sweet tempered as they seem to be. When I pick one up it will just settle in and close its eyes and make sweet little noises, its hard not to fall in love with them.
Are some turkey breeds, ahem, less intelligent than others? More aggressive/less aggressive? I guess it is like chickens, some are more dominant, etc...