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[Leggett28]

He's a handsome guy 🦃

[KingstonsMom]

@Kachina624 

What a gorgeous photo, he's so regal and colorful!

Thanks for sharing!

[Kalli]

My friend had a turkey at her farm a few years ago.  Whenever I'd go visit, he'd circle me with one wing extended.  I got the feeling he was trying to ask me out on a date. 

He was Thanksgiving dinner a few months later.  Everything has a purpose on a working farm.  

[Kachina624]

@Kalli    You're saying his social life didn't end well? 

[Kalli]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

@Kalli    You're saying his social life didn't end well? 

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@Kachina624 Yeah. 

I will say, tho, that animals who live on her farm are treated very well.  Their poultry (geese, chickens, ducks, and the occasional turkey) are free range. Cows are grass fed in 2 large pastures. Goats receive meds and Vit B shots as needed.  The dogs and cats are more like pets but they do work. Dogs herd the goats to keep them out of trouble and yes they will herd the chickens off the porch and out of the gardens when directed.  And the cats keep rodents away.

Horses have regular vet appts and yearly vaccinations. 'Course, they're totally for recreation.  I keep my 2 there as well. 

[GingerPeach]

He's a beauty, @Kachina624 

We have turkeys in our suburban neighborhood, too. 

One of the females with chicks flew right into me this summer trying to keep me away. No pecking, just a bump. It was quite a thump. I was rather proud of her since she behaved like any good mom.

I'd post some pics but don't want to mess up your thread.

Besides, the pics aren't as gorgeous as this one.

[Witchy Woman]

@Kachina624 

I adore wild turkeys and hear them calling through the woods near our house in the early morning and dusk.  They seem shy, so I only see them now and again.

One year, a large Tom was strutting back and forth near a couple of hens and both ignored him like he wasn't there.  They were in our driveway close to the house, but still protected by the woods.

The tail feathers were out full and he was working the runway, but....they just moved on without even looking up.  I felt sorry for him, but it was glorious seeing him showing off for the ladies.

[Kachina624]

@GingerPeach    Hey if you've got some good pictures, by all means post them.  It's "our" thread, not mine. 

Some of you are so lucky to live in places where you see lots of wildlife.  We just see coyotes which I'd just as soon have go away. 

[Spurt]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

@GingerPeach    Hey if you've got some good pictures, by all means post them.  It's "our" thread, not mine. 

Some of you are so lucky to live in places where you see lots of wildlife.  We just see coyotes which I'd just as soon have go away. 

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@Kachina624 

WOW! Gorgeous turkey!!!  

Around my neighborhood, a suburban subdivision, we get the usual Texas critters--coyotes, raccoons, possums, field mice, rat snakes, skunks, geckos....and deer.  There was a  magnificent Buck the other day, I ran to get my phone to take a photo but he had moved on.....I think he was checking to see if the sprinklers were on so he could get a drink.....There's also Egrets, hawks, vultures, bats, cardinals, bluejays and mockingbirds......

[Kachina624]

@Spurt    The whole 35 years I lived in Texas, I never saw a cardinal, not even in the big Yupon Holly grove on our deer lease near Madisonville.  I adore cardinals but we don't have them in NM either.   Yes, I'm in a suburban neighborhood too.  We do have these.