Oh boy! Turkey eggs!

Thanks to Golden Boy, I found Wanda's nest of eggs.  Golden Boy was on the other side of the creek bed and when I called to him he started running to me.  Apparently he scared Wanda and she flew off.  I climbed up the hill to the area she flew from and lo and behold! there was a beautiful nest of turkey eggs.  Since the turkeys are notoriously lousy mothers when the poults are young, I removed most of the eggs from her nest so they can be incubated and raised either by people or by a chicken hen.  Then when the young turkeys are past that fragile stage we will let Turk and his crew have them to finish raising.  The only problem with that is the turkeys then think they are chickens and don't understand why the chickens don't think they are handsome when they put on their show for them.

We have one hen who has been thinking she wanted to be a mother so we gave some of the eggs to her and hopefully she will settle on them.  The others we will probably take to our friend Sherry (hairdresser, soap maker, goat foster mom) who has the incubator already turned on and ready for more eggs.

With some luck there will be pictures of little turkeys on the blog again in 5 or 6 weeks.

Oh yes, hopefully we will have pictures of baby bunnies by then too.