I went out to give my chicken and turkey girls their daily treat of bread, flax oil, yogurt and various left overs from the fridge and I bent down to pet Birdis and Tom pecked my hand and it really hurt, left a mark but did not draw blood. I swatted at him and told him to go away and started petting Birdis again and Tom came up to me and hit me in the face with his right wing. My eyes started to water and the pain was unreal! I got up and kicked at him but felt off balance and disorientated so I came into the house and called for Shane. Sky came and took the fresh eggs out of my hand and Brady said "told you we should have had turkey for new years". All the men were ready to take Tom out right then and there for me...my band of protectors.
Here is what IS going to happen. As soon as we have turkey eggs hatched and know we have a male Tom is dinner! My hopes are that one of the eggs from Jenny will be a male then we can use that tom with my pretty turkey girls. These 2 turkeys are so mean! my girls are the sweetest things ever and I really worry that Tom and Jenny's bad behavior will rub off on my girls since it is obvious that my girls good behavior isn't going the other way! If I can get my hands on another Tom before then...who wants the drum stick? I would like to get some babies out of this tom before then but since turkeys don't continually lay eggs I have to wait until they decide the time is right.
So today I got beat up by a turkey. My nose still hurts and pain radiates out from it in a headache. We need to be careful not to turn our backs on this guy!
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