Bon's Garden Compound

[Vanalpaca]

Hubs said yesterday there was a turkey hen setting eggs in my strawberry patch that is blooming. Sigh. Today he said there are 3-4 chicks under her! At this point it may be too late to catch them. 2 hens are laying right outside the garden fence as well. Always fun on the farm... Hatched some turkeyberries...

 

[flowerbug]

the wild turkey's here don't come close to the house and gardens very often, but some friends have had them lay eggs and nest right next to their door, so those turkeys were much more used to people than the ones that come around here. the closest they come to the house is usually about 100+ feet.

 

[Vanalpaca]

the wild turkey's here don't come close to the house and gardens very often, but some friends have had them lay eggs and nest right next to their door, so those turkeys were much more used to people than the ones that come around here. the closest they come to the house is usually 100+ feet.

The wild ones would come in but my toms won't let them. I was down to 2 hens and no tom when the neighbor's released domestics (they thought they would stay home and populate their woods) came drifting in to breed my hens. They stayed. I let my friends know they were here and I'd help get them back down here and they said let them stay, so now I have the Narragansett flock bred back up. This is the most hens here at one time. My hen has 6-7 chicks today. Hopefully they can learn to eat the feed I put out and stay healthy and survive in the garden....

 

[Vanalpaca]

The wild ones would come in but my toms won't let them. I was down to 2 hens and no tom when the neighbor's released domestics (they thought they would stay home and populate their woods) came drifting in to breed my hens. They stayed. I let my friends know they were here and I'd help get them back down here and they said let them stay, so now I have the Narragansett flock bred back up. This is the most hens here at one time. My hen has 6-7 chicks today. Hopefully they can learn to eat the feed I put out and stay healthy and survive in the garden....

Hubs just came in and said the turkey hen setting in the burn pit has a chick. We call turkey chicks 'poults.' I also have a hen nesting under the globe arborvitae that is about 10x10x10 round ball. Soon we should have poults a poppin. Meanwhile I'm trying to figure out the best way to get the pole beans to produce the most pods...