W have a lot of wild turkey in our area, and managing our field and wood edges carefully encourages them to stick around. We have a local flock that raises two batches of poults a year on the farm. You’ll see a couple hens out there with a passel of babies wandering through the tall grass every morning and evening.

The fences and equipment don’t make them nervous.

The sheep don’t make them nervous.

The cows don’t bother them.

The chickens don’t bother them.

They just come and go as they feel like it.

They haven’t quite wandered up to the backyard yet!

In the spring we’ll see a couple gobblers handing around but once the chicks hatch, it seems to fall mostly to the hens.

And if we let the dog out or the kiddos make too much noise, they’ll just all shoo off through the fence and into the woods.

Once in a while a big gobbler or a fat hen can’t get through the fence and they have to fly over. Turkeys are heavy fliers, they look like they can barely get off the ground and they flap so hard it almost sounds like they are pounding up into the air.

Just more everyday blessings out here.

Do you have plans for the weekend? We’ll be processing meat chickens and doing more housework and some planning for the Ladybug’s birthday. We think we’re going to be painting her room and doing some fun updates for her before the school year starts…you know, new nightstand, new lamp, new alarm clock, that sort of thing. She is turning 10, after all. {smile}

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