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July 3, 2007
The Great Turkey Scare
I arrived home close to 7pm, just finishing up a 14 hour day at my desk job when Gary informed me that Hank had killed one of my turkeys. My heart sank. It was a small poult, and darker colored than I remembered.
Hank is turning into a hunter. He has always been interested in chasing rabbits and I have found him more then once with kits and adults in his mouth. Gary thought last week he even came upon a small fawn and did her in. But a turkey!
I did my round of chores and started in on my batch of turkey poults. I have 4 poults and the 3 chicks who used to live in my office outside in a portable coop. Seven beaks. I counted before I filled their waterer. 1-2-3 chickens, 1-2-3-4 turkeys! I counted again. They were all there! Hank must have come across a wild poult. Even so, it's not a stretch to go from a wild turkey to one of my own, so I need to nip this one in the bud.
Posted by roosterh at July 3, 2007 11:20 PM
