Thanksgiving Turkeys...

The turkeys are growing in leaps and bounds...

They have finally learned to obey the fence, although they continue to insist on sticking their heads through the netting to graze the other side of the fence. It’s always greener they say. Of course when they do stretch their necks out to reach that blade of grass and happen to touch the fence, they jump and jerk in an offended and surprised manner. These creatures are definitely not birds of the air.
See this undecided chap on the right, surveying the ground suspiciously after forgetting that it existed for a whole night? Turkeys especially like to roost, and always struggle with which side of the pen to get off of. I wish you could have seen him sway and flap on the edge of his perch before toppling over and making a nose-dive on the earth at his companion’s feet. They always get up like a cat… “It was deliberate, nobody panic. I meant to do that. Carry on you good fellows!”
These turkeys haven’t been “hybridized” as much as the broiler chickens, and are therefore closer in nature to the original turkey kind than broilers are to the original chicken kind. This makes them better grazers and hardier. This is why we have them on a day-range system. In this system, they get far more freedom in grazing, since they use the pasture efficiently, and we don’t have to move them as often! Being good grazers also makes them better to eat! There are more Omega-3s in animals the eat fresh salad!