Oh no.........wait! That's "Turkey in the Straw"!

Opps......my mistake! But since you are here.......have a peek at my "pet" turkey. She's been around (and all alone, as I think a hawk got her babies this past fall) since last spring. One neighbor wants to shoot her......my other neighbor and I have protected her and fed her all this while. She's prolly a good 25lbs. or more now......according to hubby. And he isn't all that fond of her either, ever since she tried to roost on the hood of my Durango. Left scratches and hubby went for the gun. I ran out and chased her away! LMAO!

It's snowing like crazy today but she comes for breakfast every morning. Good thing she is here today cause all the little birdies that come for breakfast after her would never find the feed under all this snow.

I haven't named her yet....which, for me, is really unusual! I guess I keep thinking either my neighbor or hubby will shoot her one day and it would be sadder for me if she had a name.

So far, so good though. I fear she may get hit by a car if either guy doesn't shoot her first. She runs into the street if she is frightened.....and I hold my breath everytime I see her do this. I'm hoping in this coming spring she'll find a male turkey and some friends. She seems so alone and it's rare to see a single turkey. They usually travel in gaggles.......if that's the proper term!?

Shall we name her? LOL!

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I thought it was flocks..it is just groups of lixy's that travel in Gaggles...

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Flocks....gaggles......clumps....whatever! LMAO skip! Thanks for the 411!

And I don't travel in gaggles......I travel in babbles!

*kisses*

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I thought Meleagris gallopavo traveled in herds.

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pantyfanatic, you are sadly wrong here.

Meleagris gallopavo travels singly in "bottles" and in numbers

(usually 12) in groups called "cartons".

Hope this brings clarity.

Also, more usually associated with ice, rather than snow.

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I thought Meleagris Gallopavo was a whiskey! Gawd I got so sick on that one time I, to this day, do not drink whiskey!

ROFLMFAO Shar and PF!


*EDIT NOTE* You owe me a drink OF! Thought of the same thing at the same time! LMAO!

*EDIT NOTE #2* OK....I lied......skip told me what Meleagris Gallopavo was.....to save me the trouble of looking it up! LOL! But I do still hate whiskey for the reason stated above!

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So would a group of internet users doing a search be called a google???

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@ OF

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Lixy, hope yours fares better than one I saw...couple of years back, my F-I-L was giving me a tour of the farm he had just bought...led me into the barn, & I just missed stepping on the lower leg of a wild turkey...seems they also have coyotes & feral dogs around, & one had apparently made a meal out of Mr Tom & left a scrap behind...

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If the theory does not conform to the facts, then the facts must be discarded.

No good deed ever goes unpunished

Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, & beat you with experience.

Personal opinion is that you should make a present of the turkey to the President for Thanksgiving. The bird gets spared (so you don't have to cry) and it's given a foster home with a lifetime of free food (hard to beat that). Finally, who knows, you may find as a gift to the government you become entitled to a federal pension. (Who knows what strange laws were put on the books to preserve America's fine pork barrel tradition.) In any case, you might find you get your picture on front page of some of the nation's leading tabloids!

Wow, you really know how to rig the game!

If you're a little reluctant to do this, you could tell them that Dicksbro suggested this. They'll all say, "Who ITF is that?" but rather than risk offending some really important politician, they'll bend over backwards to give the bird and it's gracious donor high praise for generosity. Governments work like that.

little know fact: Ben Franklin wanted the turkey to be the nation bird instead of the Eagle


(ignore that man behind the curtain)

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Llixy what to name your new friend?? How about "Dinnerforsix"?
Good luck with your fowl weather friend
(geeezee did I actually write that?).

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NOT such a little known fact Scarecrow
The lesser known fact is that the defeating vote came from a future President that was also very interested in science but yet also voted to retain the imperial measurement over the Metric System . (Go figure!)

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Lixy, you should call your new pet........

Lixy's Chick! Surely no one could shoot her then!