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["Tracy J" <tracy9j AT frontiernet.net>]

My guess is that these turkeys have been feed by someone at some point in 
their lives and they are looking for a handout.

Tracy Julian
in East North-Central Minnesota

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 4:40 PM
Subject: [Homestead] A balanced diet?


> An hour or so ago we watched from the kitchen window a flock of
> thirteen turkeys feeding in the pasture to the northeast of the
> house. Fun: one was all white. Some slight sound spooked them and
> they went back to the woods. I just went out to pee and they had come
> back down even closer to the house. My muse is, why? Why would they
> feed, in a light rain, in an old pasture full of miscellaneous weeds
> in amongst the fescue when we are ankle-deep in acorns? Apply your
> brains; there may be a great answer here.
>
>
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