Urban turkeys
Please read the next three sentences in "Movie Announcer Guy" voice:
Urban turkeys!! Afraid of no man!! Coming soon to a backyard near you!!!
This flock of turkeys has been foraging through my brother's backyard a couple evenings this week. The best he can tell, there are two hens and 14 chicks.
Here is a close-up of a chick. It is about as big as a big chicken.
My brother lives near the Kwik Trip on Memorial Avenue in Janesville. There is nothing rural about his backyard.
Redneck, maybe. But certainly not rural.
I mean redneck in a loving way, of course. I would never make fun of someone with trucks or boats on blocks in the backyard. Nor would I make fun of someone with a dog kennel that contains a lot of broken lawnmowers and radiators.
Anyway, my brother has enjoyed his avian visitors and has been careful to keep the dog in the house.
So, what do you think? Is it a good thing that turkeys have carved themselves a niche in the city? Or are they going to grow into a problem like Canadian geese?
Aug 4, 2009 at 1:03 p.m.
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Turkey-
You definitely could say that!
Aug 4, 2009 at 11:11 a.m.
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Aug 1, 2009 at 4:57 p.m.
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Ann Marie
When talking about your brother shall we say the nut doesn't fall far from the tree?
Jul 31, 2009 at 1:11 p.m.
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How long till Thanksgiving?
Jul 31, 2009 at 12:44 p.m.
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My parents have a turkey and four babies in there backyard and they live near Craig High School.
Jul 31, 2009 at 11:42 a.m.
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aames,
This is on Wisconsin Public Radio today, and I thought you might be interested in listening or picking up the podcast from the wpr.org website:
10:00 PM Veronica Rueckert - 07/31E
Veronica talks with a woman who turned a vacant city lot into a thriving farm... complete with chickens, turkeys, pigs, and all kinds of vegetables. A look at how urban meets rural in the most surprising ways. Guest: Novella Carpenter, author, "Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer" (Penguin Press).
Jul 31, 2009 at 11:01 a.m.
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Turkeyman-
They sure chose the wrong guy to follow home. You'd think turkeys would be smarter than to wander through the backyard of a guy with two hunting dogs and 47 tons of camo gear.
Jul 30, 2009 at 6:50 p.m.
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So they just followed him home one day and won’t leave? But wait if you look really close you can see the little invisible fence collars on them.
Urban Turkeys can be a problem. They are about as messy as a Goose (at least they keep on the move), have been known to fly into picture windows and can you imagine the size of the pile up if one ran across Milton Ave? The other thing is you have 2 hens and 14 Poults if 8 of the poults are hens and 4 make it through the winter plus the 2 old hens that is 6 hens each hatching 6 to 12 poults ( I like that word). I would have to take my shoes off to count that many.
All I can say is good luck & Happy Thanksgiving
Jul 30, 2009 at 5:42 p.m.
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This sounds like a job for...TURKEYMAN!
(I'll alert him using the turkeyphone.)
Also, weren't you hoping for chickens in your yard? Seems like a good defense: "But they just...wandered here...even though we live in the city."
Jul 30, 2009 at 5:33 p.m.
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Of course he keeps the dog in the house! There's no room for it in the kennel!
::runs away snickering::
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