New babies!!
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New babies!!
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I came home from work just 10 or 15 minutes too late. Seven the Turkey's body was still warm. I didn't notice the outgoing bright-eyed little bird had been turned into a lime feathered hung of meat at first. It was just strange that Maron was over between a big rock and a green shrub. I thought her leash was caught on something and wen to untangle her, almost stepped on the dead turkey chick... And after it's all done Maron was just sitting there looking all cute an innocent. I had to make and effort to be mad at her for at least 24 hours... Hopefully she can retain the urge to be as far from the birds as possible when they gather around the feed cans. Or does she just look reticent when I'm there? I'll have to reorganize things somehow just to be safe I guess.. It was very disappointing to lose Seven, my first and last eye contact everyday for the last couple weeks. And it was also a lot of effort to hatch the turkey with an unreliable incubator and time the move to the brooding box with the heat lamp, and set up another box as the bird got bigger.. A bunch of kids and their guardians enjoyed Seven too, not to mention her hatch-mate LaBuBu the Silky... Now I have to wait till March to try and learn of Turkeys through experience...
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Not sure how the littlest chicks would make out trying to spend the night out with the 4 bigger chicks... To be safe I'll keep bringing them in to sleep in the box with the heat lamp...
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Seven photos of Seven the Turkey chick... nice cool dirt bath day, relaxing!!

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"Seven" growing quick.

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Seven the turkey out eating with the adults.
Silkies seem to get along with other birds. The Nagoya Kochin seemed to drive of the sparrows, ate a couple of quail chicks, tried to kill a disabled Silky and would body slam quail adults. The Kochin are cute birds otherwise...

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Food Now!
Turkey ("Seven") is write in there among the adults demanding feed. Joel Salatin wrote that Turkeys are much more energetic or active about foraging.. I'm wondering if I'll have to figure out some fencing or just give Seven to someone else in a few weeks or months. It would be fun to get set up for Turkeys.. Nice people want to do a MaruYaki Rotisserie event.. Not with Seven of course!! But in March if I can hatch a couple more eggs and end up with extra Toms (male rooster turkeys) in the winter...

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After more then 2 weeks it's impressive to see how smart and social this first Turkey chick seems. There's a lot of eye contact and learning, I think. "Seven" runs over and finds me, makes me nervous about the dog(Maron) not noticing the difference between a in-group friend and a small-meal sparrow.. But Turkey prefers to get meal-worms and BSFL from between fingers than off the ground.. I can't see "Seven" as a meal for anybody. There is a Silky rooster chick and seems intent on bullying "Seven" and their peer "LaBuBu" he Silky Chick. Maybe that mean rooster will be somebody's meal in a few months...

If I can start hatching turkey eggs in march and they get to be about 15 kgs in 6 months or so... Getting people together to eat the extra males ("Toms"?) in the winter might work out fine, the end of November, the beginning of December. From next year maybe a new tradition will start right between Thanksgiving and Noam Chomsky day there will be a Turkey Feast day to celebrate the American contributions to the world..
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