To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Big Bird
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:41:12 -0500
At 02:23 PM 4/30/2004 -0500, Doreen wrote:
My
question, and I do have one, is will turkeys do damage to the fruit
trees? Obviously, I have to put up a higher fence around the veggie
garden. But, my concern is the
trees.
Doreen,
Sometime in the past, on this list, there's been someone(Del?, Joe?) who
related experiences with an older orchardist who specifically kept
'wild-strain' turkeys in his orchard, as he indicated that they were
exceptional 'mousers' , capturing and consuming mice & voles - and
the caveat was that they HAD to be true wild-strain turkeys - the plain
old whites & bronzes just didn't seem to have that
instinct.