More Pictures of Birds

These are some of the pens we went and looked at last weekend. Well, we went to take the Black Tom and to look at the guys pens so I could get ideas for building new ones for myself.

He had a lot of birds, and a lot of different kinds of birds, too. Funny thing was, a few days later he had my Tom listed for sale. Not sure what the deal is. He only wants what he paid for it, claims his wife is getting him a tom for Christmas or some such thing. Who knows. Not my bird any more. And he was the one came looking specifically for a Black Tom, because we were going to eat it for Thanksgiving, but he wanted it. So why not sell it?

Back home.

The birds have taken to hanging out under a brush pile just beyond the back yard near the hay barn. Not sure what draws them out there. I can still see them from the back yard. Maybe it is that there is more grass and less mud and such like there is in the yard. I've been letting them run in the yard trying to save their run area for when it gets worse, but looks like they may have already trashed it. So they go out there and sit in the grass and soak up the sun. I think.

And so far nothing has bothered them. Not sure how much of an actual fight the geese or the tom would put up, but they surely wouldn't just roll over. And there would be lots of noise.

OK, the first pic is of some of my hens in the brush.

The second is actually one of my roosters. He has a small comb, but rooster still the same.

This is the brush pile and if you look close you can see them all back under the brush.

This is pretty much all the turkeys I have left. You can see the red tom and one red hen, the black and white tom, the 3 black hens and 2 of the slates. The little one right in front of the red tom is a chicken that has been adopted or something and hangs out with him all the time.

This is 4 of the 5 geese. They usually run with every one else. You can see a few chickens in the back ground. They are separate, but in the same area as the others. And they always go as a group. The fifth one was just to the right and didn't get in the picture.