A little bad news to start. Shortly after our last post another of our baby turkeys died. We started off with three Bourbon Reds, three Bronze and four Narragansett. It was all three of the Bronze that died. :-(
The seven remaining turkeys moved to new temporary housing outside on Saturday. About sundown on Saturday four of them were outside the pen. We got them back in and fixed the places where we thought they got out. Sunday night before going to bed we checked on them- two were missing. Generally when they get out they stay right by the pen because they don't want to leave their flock. We looked all around and didn't find them. You know how parents worry when their kids aren't home on time. Well, they came dragging in at 6:00 this morning. I scolded them, told them to never do that again and grounded them for a week. What started out as bad news is now good news.
While I was trying to catch the two night owls and put them up I saw Duncan take off like a shot. I don't think he got the skunk but the skunk definitely got him. This was VERY BAD news. By 9:00 he's already had two baths but it doesn't seem to have helped a lot.
And finishing up with VERY GOOD news, the "crack house" is rented! We thought we'd end up with an intern or grad student working at the Texas A&M Agri-Life Research Farm next door. But we ended up with someone even better. Our tenant (as of today) is a sweet 80 year old lady with a lot of spunk. She doesn't even mind we call it the crack house. We already like her a lot. We've made a few upgrades for her. We've put a new deck on the back of the house and today we'll start working on the roof over the deck. The deck ends about 4 feet from the property line, on the other side of the barbed wire fence are Texas A&M's cattle that are very inquisitive. They'll be checking on her anytime she's out on the deck.
That's all for now.
Take care.
Brian
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