Friday, October 15, 2010

Turkeys have an outing

Yesterday the turkeys seemed to decide to go for a little outing. I found a pair in one neighbor's yard, and another pair in another neighbors yard. Between the 3 yards, or pastures, there is a single corner post with a top 4x4 wooden brace. I am pretty sure what happens is they decided to roost on the brace overnight and when morning came, left in 3 different directions. Unfortunately turkeys don't seem to understand fencing so once they get on the wrong side, they stay there walking back and forth all day.

This did give me a great opportunity to meet a neighbor with a bordering fence line that we have not met since we moved here 3 years ago. How did it get to be so long!?!? They are a really nice retired couple that didn't mind at all me coming over to herd the turkeys back. In fact they, after a call to explain the need, I drove up to find them out back keeping the turkeys "cornered" until I arrived. It turns out that in his younger days, he actually raised some turkeys too!

Overall it was a pleasant experience, but nonetheless its time to alter the turkey confinement system. For now we will keep them locked in the big portable turkey pen as I modify the fence lines with electric and build some sort of suitable roost they will prefer.

As a side not... these guys are getting BIG! dropping them over the fence they seemed to weight a good 8 to 10 pounds. The biggest toms can almost look into the bed of the gator while standing on the ground!

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