This is Stripes, one of the first turkeys we hatched from our eggs.
We raise heritage turkeys, and cross them so that we often end up with very beautiful birds,
We started with Bourbon Reds then we added a Spanish Black Tom, and a Blue Slate hen. The crosses produced Stripes and Choclate Slates.
This year we added Narragansett birds. Originally we had thought about trying to breed them and sell eggs to the hatchery but have since decided that isn't a good idea at the present time. So the plan is to try and sell all but 6 of the birds we now have. They will be sold as either Thanksgiving Dinner birds or as breeders.
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This is our resident ground hog. Or was one of them. Not sure. They are also called woodchucks, more a similarity in the pronunciation of an old Indian word for them than anything they do with wood. What they DO is tunnel under building foundations and sheds and make large holes in the ground. And what you can’t see is that they are about 3 feet long. This one lived under the shed. Had one hole came up under the shed, one under the old Mazda in the car port and another one in the barn next to the tractor. Not sure if there are more holes, but cold be.
And they are very secretive. They are only vegetarians, so no real threat to the birds, but they make big holes and can upset building foundations. And they can sense or feel things, and are almost as skittish as white tailed deer. You see them walking across the lawn, but they run before you can go outside to get them. So I started setting a trap. I was able to shoot 1 of them and trap 2 of them, and still there is at least one and maybe two more of them left. But since it is winter and they have gown underground for the time being, I’ll try to eliminate them again in the spring.
And they are very secretive. They are only vegetarians, so no real threat to the birds, but they make big holes and can upset building foundations. And they can sense or feel things, and are almost as skittish as white tailed deer. You see them walking across the lawn, but they run before you can go outside to get them. So I started setting a trap. I was able to shoot 1 of them and trap 2 of them, and still there is at least one and maybe two more of them left. But since it is winter and they have gown underground for the time being, I’ll try to eliminate them again in the spring.
