Well, any self respecting person that lives in the country and enjoys animals as much as I do has to have a turkey or two! Three weeks ago I picked up five Rio Grande Turkey poults. (poults are turkey chicks) We are hoping there there to be males and females in the group so we can have a breeding group. We'd like to eventually have enough that we can release them into our surrounding pastures. We'll see about that dream though. We have a good number of birds of prey in the area that may stop us from releasing any turkeys. This turkey breed is a subspecies of eastern and western breeds and is native to northeast New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. This habitat we live in here is perfect for them as they like open arid areas near rivers and large trees for roosting and we have all of that.
And here they are at nearly two weeks
Here is the adult Tom in full glory. I guess you can see why we wanted to raise them!
