A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[Molpet]

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Unauthorized?

 

[R2elk]

Unauthorized?

Authorized. It's the same nest she used last year. She is not broody but they do spend the night on the nest protecting the egg when it's cold.

 

[Amer]

Authorized. It's the same nest she used last year. She is not broody but they do spend the night on the nest protecting the egg when it's cold.

That's so sweet!

 

[KF0002]

The turds came back.
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Looks like a few smokephase Wilds among them. Super cool.

 

[KF0002]

Unauthorized?

 

[KF0002]

Authorized. It's the same nest she used last year. She is not broody but they do spend the night on the nest protecting the egg when it's cold.

They truly are amazing in how they hang onto their wild instincts. Well some of them. My poor little Penciled Fall Fire hen is pining after the Painted toms and lays her egg on the ground by their pen daily. I'm probably going to have to put her back in with them. So much for her free ranging a bit. She doesn't go anywhere. lol

 

[KF0002]

However, one of the Painted hens has figured out how to use a nesting box. They may be a little slow on the uptake, but they're learning. lol

 

[KF0002]

The toms can fly better than a person thinks but for the most part, once they start strutting, they forget that they can fly.

This is true, they don't do much of anything once they start strutting except strutting, breeding, eating, and the occasional sparring. I do have one jake, the silver dapple, he can fly up about 8 feet into the branch of the tree he roosts in. From there he jumps onto other branches to get up quite high. Sassy, the boss Narragansett hen has taught them all to roost in trees. His brother we just butchered was a quite a bit heavier than him and couldn't fly as well. Same mom and dad, just the broad breasted genetics surface in some more than others.

 

[R2elk]

Looks like a few smokephase Wilds among them. Super cool.

The one is definitely a Narragansett while the other looks like a Royal Palm cross. Not "smoke phase".

 

[R2elk]

This is true, they don't do much of anything once they start strutting except strutting, breeding, eating, and the occasional sparring. I do have one jake, the silver dapple, he can fly up about 8 feet into the branch of the tree he roosts in. From there he jumps onto other branches to get up quite high. Sassy, the boss Narragansett hen has taught them all to roost in trees. His brother we just butchered was a quite a bit heavier than him and couldn't fly as well. Same mom and dad, just the broad breasted genetics surface in some more than others.

I had a Sweetgrass tom that was flying out of the pen daily until he started strutting. He quit flying that day.

I had a Blue Slate tom that hadn't flown for years that upon the need for flying to escape being caught took off and flew very well.