Life on a Farm in Fanny Bay: Don't Let The Turkeys Get You Down

Turkeys are just one of the many updates for this week...the farm has been busy growing. We got a breeding trio of heritage turkeys on Wed. One Tom and two Hens, they are a mixed Broad Breasted Bronze and Miriam. I just love the Tom and he just might be sweet on me too. We were hoping that both hens would hatch out 8 -10 eggs and from there we would build our breeding stock. Well we got the three turkeys settled and had to run another errand. When we came home...we found that we only had one hen. We have a theory that our Maremma Sheep dog, Kumi may have chased her off. The next morning, Kumi was barking at the back of the property. When the farmer saw her bolt off after something. He was on her tail and right there was the hen. She had survived the night and found her way back to her new home...Kumi chased her off again. We spent the next hour up and down the area she ran off to with no luck. As we made our way back to the house...I remembered "Don't Let The Turkeys Get You Down." Losing that turkey was getting us down. I don't have much hope of her return...but stranger things have happened...