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Mel

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How Ignorant am I ? Flying Turkeys!
« on: September 22, 2011, 06:22:49 pm »
Hi everyone :wave:

Well,imagine,we have had lots of livestock thefts in the area recently and I have a couple of Norfolk Black turkeys-which I purchased yesterday. I was collecting the eggs and giving all their afternoon feed and do you think I could find these Turkeys?!

After an hour of me thinking the worst and searching the entire area to no avail something made me look up-and right enough,they were both perched in one of the plum tree's! (Rather beats a partridge!) Now to get down that section of the paddock they have to get over an eight foot gate!

Being raised on a farm which had 10,000 commercial white Turkeys every year,you know,I really did not realise that the natural birds -or non commercial can fly! :o And I thought,DOH,well why shouldn't they,they are birds! :turkey: I really cannot believe that I did not know this!..am I becoming old and senile? ;D


Cinderhills

  • Joined Jul 2010
  • North Yorkshire
Re: How Ignorant am I ? Flying Turkeys!
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2011, 06:33:19 pm »
It's amazing how they can, especially when the stags get so large you wouldn't think they could.  You learn something new everyday.  :)

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: How Ignorant am I ? Flying Turkeys!
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2011, 07:54:13 pm »
 :)

robert waddell

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Re: How Ignorant am I ? Flying Turkeys!
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2011, 08:07:07 pm »
yes even the white ones can fly as well :farmer:

Mel

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Re: How Ignorant am I ? Flying Turkeys!
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2011, 08:10:22 pm »
Well,I had never seen one of ours fly in all those years of being raised on the farm,amazing,I just thought they were way too cumbersome to fly-or maybe to heavy!

Mel

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Re: How Ignorant am I ? Flying Turkeys!
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2011, 08:17:02 pm »
Thing is,my Buff Orps just cannot fly,they try so hard,it just tends to speed up their running-and they kind of look hilarious :D,the majority of my hens can only just leap up somewhere,except that of my pullets-which seem to prefer the tree's,I just did not expect to see an 7lb turkey up in a tree :D

Henstock

  • Joined Jun 2010
Re: How Ignorant am I ? Flying Turkeys!
« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2011, 06:29:40 am »
I was surprised when I first got turkeys that they could fly too.  :o
I never thought such big birds would be able to take off but they actually fly really well.  :thumbsup:
Looks like a squadron of B52's coming over!!! :D

Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Stirlingshire, Central Scotland
Re: How Ignorant am I ? Flying Turkeys!
« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2011, 06:43:12 pm »

I got fed up of ours escaping over the electric fence, so I clipped their wings to keep them in.

Now they roost 7 feet up on top of the turkey shed, just to taunt me!  ;D
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suziequeue

  • Joined Feb 2010
  • Llanidloes; Powys
Re: How Ignorant am I ? Flying Turkeys!
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2011, 07:10:47 pm »
Hi Womble - haven;t seen you for ages.... or maybe I just haven't been paying attention  ::) ::)
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Hermit

  • Joined Feb 2010
Re: How Ignorant am I ? Flying Turkeys!
« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2011, 08:20:03 pm »
My female Wild Americans fly well but the stag does not so they dont go far from him. We keep the youngsters in a run covered with an old salmon cage net ( the marquee) so they can fly about but indoors!

little blue

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Derbyshire
Re: How Ignorant am I ? Flying Turkeys!
« Reply #10 on: September 25, 2011, 08:30:24 pm »

,they were both perched in one of the plum tree's! (Rather beats a partridge!)

that's a pear tree surely?
Turkey in a plum tree must be a different verse....  :D
Little Blue

Hermit

  • Joined Feb 2010
Re: How Ignorant am I ? Flying Turkeys!
« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2011, 08:34:04 pm »
Thats a good thread for xmas.......the smallholders 12 Days Of X mas. :xmas:

robert waddell

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Re: How Ignorant am I ? Flying Turkeys!
« Reply #12 on: September 25, 2011, 09:01:08 pm »
i can beat you to it but it might get pulled i will need to let rosemary give it the once over before printing ;D :farmer: ;D

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: How Ignorant am I ? Flying Turkeys!
« Reply #13 on: September 25, 2011, 10:19:49 pm »
i can beat you to it but it might get pulled i will need to let rosemary give it the once over before printing ;D :farmer: ;D

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Mel

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Re: How Ignorant am I ? Flying Turkeys!
« Reply #14 on: September 27, 2011, 08:34:17 am »
i can beat you to it but it might get pulled i will need to let rosemary give it the once over before printing ;D :farmer: ;D

Yes Robert,I second that,we are all patiently waiting ;)

 

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