The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Mel on September 22, 2011, 06:22:49 pm
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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
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It's amazing how they can, especially when the stags get so large you wouldn't think they could. You learn something new everyday. :)
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yes even the white ones can fly as well :farmer:
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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!
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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
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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
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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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Hi Womble - haven;t seen you for ages.... or maybe I just haven't been paying attention ::) ::)
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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!
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,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
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Thats a good thread for xmas.......the smallholders 12 Days Of X mas. :xmas:
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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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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
We're waiting.....
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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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OK OK just had a look at it definitely needs the run past rosemary first before printing don't want to stretch the boundary's to far to quick cause theres a lot more to come than this one :farmer:
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had a word with rosemary yesterday Dan would pull it if i printed it those that want a copy pm me i will send it to you :farmer: