Turkeys!!!

[OverWyreGrower]

You wait until they start looking like this!

[walldanzig]

4 it is and here are the piccies they are absoloute escape artists everytime I lift the lid on the brooder they are off.

[Hilary B]

Looks like 1 white, 1 blackish and 2 bronze.

[Glutton4...]

Looks like a freezer full to me!

Seriously, they are cute!

[Hilary B]

Looks like a freezer full to me!

Seriously, they are cute!

Yeah, they are, at that age. In a while they become panicking little hooligans, looking for water deep enough to drown in, or a corner where the first toarrive can get squashed by the ones behind, or some other hazard, or simply an opportunity to be a confounded nuisance!

[Madasafish]

We have two bronzes as pets: great characters altho the male can be VERY noisy : set off by any loud sound including passenger planes in the sky 10 miles away..
A turkey in full gobble - and when in a rage - is ear splitting...

[walldanzig]

the noise really concerns me we have a lot of kids who cause trouble around the lotties and I dont want to give them reason to break in.

[sheena]

I'd be inclined to put a poster up saying

"Beware, These bird's will gobble you up" or
"A savage dog will let go, these bird's WON'T"
"Warning! Pitbull with feathers"

They don't need to know they are relatively tame do they?

[Hilary B]

A turkey stag 'on the strut' is quite an intimidating beastie anyway, although a hen turkey with babies is much more aggressive (think 'bantam-hen' but a LOT bigger).

[Scarlet]

Mine are very noisy, the stag gobbles at every bit of noise, though agree with Hilary B - a fully grown stag can look pretty scary, I don't have many people asking to go in my pen!

If you are keeping them on a lottie though you will need a seriously high fence to contain them - one year mine decided to roost on a neighbouring barn that was being re-roofed, four were perched on the roof rafters. We had to leave them there hoping that they would still be alive the next morning. Even wing clipping doesn't seem to stop them much, there is always one that manages to perch somewhere out of reach!

[walldanzig]

thanks scarlet they will be in an enclosed run so shouldnt be a problem

[Scarlet]

How are they doing?

[walldanzig]

good they sleep a lot but all four are doing well just getting their permanent home ready with a few bales of hay they make a lot of noise and spend a lot of time chasing flies around

[petal]

Our turkey eggs are hatching! We have 4 in the incubator, one has hatched, it looks black with a white face and white wings and is very friendly, another is in the process of hatching right now. my little girl has called it Cranberry, I think the next one will be called Stuffing. nice.

[walldanzig]

congrats petal and good luck