Turkey Brained

Dated: 9 Feb 2009
Posted by rhonda

At first glance, the wild turkeys may impress you. And I will admit, they are quite impressive animals. Gorgeous, really.

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We call these turkeys “wild”, but we use the term loosely. A couple of years ago, there were some wild turkeys who made friends with our domestic turkeys. I really think they were just using them for the free food, but whatever the case, they became pals. Well, our domestic turkeys ended up running off with the wild turkeys. Such bad influences.

We have never seen our domestic turkeys again. But this past year, a wild turkey momma showed up with her four little babies. I guess she wanted to give them the same type of childhood that she had.

We love them and are protective of them. We don’t want them to end up on someone’s table for Thanksgiving dinner.

But at the same time, they drive us crazy. They are not as impressive when they are scratching and climbing around on your roof at 6:30 am.

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(See the little turkey head sticking up?)

And they are not impressive when they poop all along your front walk.

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They are not impressive when they tear apart the bale of straw that is for your chickens.

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But they are impressive when they fly high into the trees.
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And super impressive when they strut their stuff.
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So, I guess we’ll keep them around. We’ll have to raise our own thanksgiving turkey.

One Response to “Turkey Brained”

  1. Diane Carter Says:
    March 11th, 2009 at 10:48 am

    What beautiful pictures of Turkeys. I had a friend who had a few geese in her back yard and wanted a few more so she put out a wadeing pool and some feed. Big mistake, She got a lot of geese and they left their tooties rolls all over the place and she said they were loud to boot.

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