Oh lord, don’t even get me going about the wild Turkeys over here. I woke up to 5 huge Toms all puffed out and posturing in my front yard this morning while about a dozen females gorged on my goose feed in the corral. Drives me crazy this time of year!
I run outside every 5 minutes all morning and throw gravel at them from my garage. Gah!
They are incorrigible birds, they don’t even run when I charge them, unless I have a broom and wave it around like a lunatic. They hide behind the barn and as soon as I turn my back they are back stealing the feed.
I can’t net my corral because it is too big, has 3 trees and a giant bamboo bush in it and the netting would just sag from falling branches anyway, not to mention the fencing is 5 feet tall and I would not be able to stand up inside or rake, clean the barn, empty pools, etc.
Sooo, every spring I am on turkey detail for several months while they stuff themselves on about 5 lb.s of feed a day.
I do enjoy all the chicks when they hatch, but, the moms bring them in the corral and sometimes I find them drowned in the water buckets. :-(