[Mel]

Hi everyone

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! And I thought,DOH,well why shouldn't they,they are birds! I really cannot believe that I did not know this!..am I becoming old and senile?

[Cinderhills]

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]

 

[robert waddell]

yes even the white ones can fly as well

[Mel]

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]

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 ,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

[Henstock]

I was surprised when I first got turkeys that they could fly too. 
I never thought such big birds would be able to take off but they actually fly really well. 
Looks like a squadron of B52's coming over!!!

[Womble]

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! 

[suziequeue]

Hi Womble - haven;t seen you for ages.... or maybe I just haven't been paying attention 

[Hermit]

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]

,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.... 

[Hermit]

Thats a good thread for xmas.......the smallholders 12 Days Of X mas.

[robert waddell]

i can beat you to it but it might get pulled i will need to let rosemary give it the once over before printing

[SallyintNorth]

i can beat you to it but it might get pulled i will need to let rosemary give it the once over before printing

We're waiting.....

[Mel]

i can beat you to it but it might get pulled i will need to let rosemary give it the once over before printing

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