Wood Work and Turkey Turmoil

With the growing season and hunting seasons both over, wood working has begun in earnest.  Last weekend Kevin, Rollie, and Kurt tackled part of a large stack with the buzz saw.  They made a dent in the pile and brought up a lot of fuel.

I had another market this weekend - Sister-in-Law Lori stopped by and took this picture:
 

 The three adopted hens that were introduced in the last post are doing just fine.  They are good friends and hang out together.

About those turkeys... two posts back I described our efforts to get them indoors at night out of the elements.  The plan was that they would over-winter in the summer coop, whether they wanted to or not.  They did not.  Last weekend since the weather was so nice I let them out again, and again they did not return to the summer coop in the evening (although they did go in during the day to eat).  They ended up down in the winter coop yard with the hens and the other turkeys.  I shut them into the coop-yard and after dark was able to get most of them into the coop with some gentle persuasion - one (and I think it was the wary Penelope) was a little more difficult  but in the end they all spent the night crowded into the winter coop.  It looks like that is where they will be staying.  Every evening some of them still need to be herded into the coop, but it's getting to be less of them and easier to accomplish. 

It's pretty crowded in the coop, and utter chaos in in the morning when I am in there trying to do my chores.   I turn on the light to pick up under the roosts a bit - Julio starts chasing the hens around and eight big turkeys try to stay as far away from me as they can but the space is small.  There is much squawking and .... I don't know what to call the sounds the turkey's make - chirping maybe?  Anyway, it gets noisy.

Maybe I should get some ducks...

Until next time, be well folks!