Turkey!

Really quite bizarre today! Took the dogs for their walk, the field was open so in we went, ... and there was a turkey strutting across it! I had to look twice, as there is a pheasant farm not far away, and we very often see escapees.

The dogs were not interested, so we had chance for a good look, and it was a turkey!.

I can only think it was a Christmas dinner that batted its eyes?

I wish I'd had my camera.

We have free range turkeys and quite often get walkers taking photos of them. We have a stag, and two hens and the stag spends the whole day strutting around after his ladies lol. We bought 6 last year, had 3 for Christmas and left 3 for breeding.

I'm surprised at the number of people who don't know what they are and ask me.

They are great birds to have around and are certainly conversation starters lol.

Helen

I did know what is was, but... no-one round here has turkeys, that I know of! I must admit thinking at first, what a funny looking pheasant.. lol.

LOL as soon as I read this thread I thought of your free range turkeys Helen

Here's my "handsome" stag:



OH and son rounding them up for bedtime:



All trooping down to the drinking trough down the road last winter:



Helen

Fab photos. I don't think I have seen them before.

lol, lovely, and they'd be safe with mine (who totally pretended it wasn't there!)..

Now there you go, I learned something new. I had no idea a male turkey was called a stag....I had images of a randy deer chasing after these poor bamboozled turkeys...