Re: Pet chicken and...turkeys

A feminist turkey.  She wanted to spread her wings and fly......wanted to
prove she could do it herself.
Ah, I guess there's a little turkey in all of us.

Kitty


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Pet chicken and...turkeys


> She did it two or three times, Marge. Then she learned if she just
> walked over to the bed, one of us would pick her up.
>
> On Friday, July 23, 2004, at 12:25 AM, Marge Talt wrote:
>
> > What a total hoot!  Question....did she only do this once or was it a
> > regular item?
> >
> > Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> >> From: james singer <jsinger@igc.org>
> >>
> >> When I had the sheep farm, I also raised turkeys for 3 or 4 years.
> >> About year 2, I decided to keep a large male and a female--Tom and
> >> Theodora. Tom quickly tamed, and for the next three years, I lugged
> > him
> >> to kindergarten classes in the area to let the little kids get to
> > see
> >> and touch him. He weighed at least 40 pounds, and I used to tuck
> > him
> >> under my arm to carry him kinda on my hip. I also let him ride in
> > the
> >> passenger seat of my pickup--which caused a few double takes from
> > other
> >> motorists.
> >>
> >> Tom and Theodora only produced one egg that I ever found, and
> > neither
> >> had any interest in brooding, so I put the egg in an incubator we
> > used
> >> for hen's eggs. We kept the incubator kept in our spare bedroom.
> > Well,
> >> it hatched. And so my [second] wife and I decided to raise it. It
> > was a
> >> hen and we named her "Turkey Girl." After awhile, she had pretty
> > much
> >> free rein in the house and seemed to generally understand that
> >> newspapers, not linoleum, were poop places--no one's prefect, but
> > she
> >> was right more often than not.
> >>
> >> Anyway, what I wanted to say about Turkey Girl is that as she
> > fledged,
> >> she also decided she wanted to sleep with us. Now, remember, I said
> > the
> >> floor was linoleum. So Turkey Girl would start at the door and run
> > full
> >> bore toward our bed. Of course, she was getting only minimal
> > traction,
> >> so it took a few seconds for forward movement to kick in.
> >>
> >> And then, suddenly she was moving like the wind, her wings spread,
> > her
> >> juvenile feathers fluttering, and her feet came off the floor, and
> > she
> >> soared head first--into the side of the mattress about 3 inches
> > below
> >> the surface of the bed.
> >>
> >> We picked her up, put her on the bed, and soothed her dignity. But
> > we
> >> also laughed all night.
> >
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