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Adopt a Turkey Month
Nov. 1st, 2024 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithNovember is Adopt a Turkey Month. Instead of eating the turkey, you allow it to live out its full life. This provides a good alternative for animal lovers and vegan or vegetarian people; see below for alternatives to turkey on Thanksgiving. Farm Sanctuary is one place for rescued turkeys.
However, if you wish long-lived turkeys, especially to raise yourself, look at heritage breeds. In order to qualify, the turkeys must grow slowly enough to minimize health problems and be able to reproduce naturally. Commercial broad-breasted turkeys get so fat so fast that they often have health issues, cannot mate naturally, and are recommended for slaughter by 26 weeks due to mobility problems.
You could also support wild turkeys. These big birds need considerable high-quality habitat to thrive.
Here are some ideas...
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However, if you wish long-lived turkeys, especially to raise yourself, look at heritage breeds. In order to qualify, the turkeys must grow slowly enough to minimize health problems and be able to reproduce naturally. Commercial broad-breasted turkeys get so fat so fast that they often have health issues, cannot mate naturally, and are recommended for slaughter by 26 weeks due to mobility problems.
You could also support wild turkeys. These big birds need considerable high-quality habitat to thrive.
Here are some ideas...
( Read more... )
redbirdOne of the neighborhood wild turkeys flew up to a branch that's at or a little above eye-level from our kitchen and study windows, meaning 25 or 30 feet above the ground, and stayed there for five or ten minutes.
Whencattitude saw the turkey, he assumed it would only stay a moment. Instead, it stood there a while, looking around in different directions, long enough that we thought it might settle in for the rest of the day, if not overnight. I don't know what it was looking for, or waiting for -- maybe company? -- but it left after long enough that we both got a good long look at it, and were able to point it out to one of our cats.
Turkeys are ground-feeding birds, so whatever it was looking for, it wasn't lunch.
When
cattitude saw the turkey, he assumed it would only stay a moment. Instead, it stood there a while, looking around in different directions, long enough that we thought it might settle in for the rest of the day, if not overnight. I don't know what it was looking for, or waiting for -- maybe company? -- but it left after long enough that we both got a good long look at it, and were able to point it out to one of our cats.Turkeys are ground-feeding birds, so whatever it was looking for, it wasn't lunch.
