Will Mr. Gobbles Die on that Hill? or Will He Find His Way Home?
I don’t know where I might have been when the turkeys came into our yard for the first time. I must have been picking the girls up from the farm or dropping them off. I remember Roland saying the neighbor from behind us stood on our door step with a net and asked permission to go and recapture her turkeys. The chickens and pigs had made their way to our yard in mid-August but we did not see another turkey until just before Thanksgiving. Jenna named him Mr. Gobbles. He had made it through the Thanksgiving holiday but was gone before Christmas. They have since added a couple of turkeys to their menagerie. A different Mr. Gobbles is currently pacing back and forth on our side of the hill. He has been there all day trying to figure out how to return from whence he came. As I mentioned in an earlier post Roland will no longer feed or water the chickens. Well, he does use the hose on them whereas be...