Re: Pet chicken and...turkeys

Especially around Thanksgiving.

On Saturday, July 24, 2004, at 03:37 PM, Kitty wrote:

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


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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
mtalt@hort.net
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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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