Hello!
Let's see, the word for the week is RAIN, RAIN, RAIN!
No WONDER this place is so GREEN! Ha.
Let's see, the word for the week is RAIN, RAIN, RAIN!
No WONDER this place is so GREEN! Ha. (The humidity makes your hair absolutely beautiful, too, as I'm sure you can imagine...)
Last week we visited the Hangens, just about 20 minutes from here. Frank attended high school with Tona, and their family lives in Stow. They raise turkeys every summer, get them nice and fat and then they become 24 families' Thanksgiving dinners come November.
Believe it or not, you can order baby turkeys, and they send them via the U.S. Postal Service. I'm not kidding! They put them in a little box all together to keep each other warm, and they arrive at the post office, a box of 24 turkey "poults." Did you know that word? I just looked it up. A baby turkey is called a "poult." 
Tona said they are SOOOooooooo cute when they arrive, but they grow pretty fast, so the cutest time is in the first week or two. So, I asked Tona to tell us when the turkey poults arrived. The post office called them and said, "Come get your birds!" Because all those turkey poults are kind of loud and irritating to the post office staff. (And you know how you do NOT want to irritate a postal worker...could get messy.)
Tona said they are SOOOooooooo cute when they arrive, but they grow pretty fast, so the cutest time is in the first week or two. So, I asked Tona to tell us when the turkey poults arrived. The post office called them and said, "Come get your birds!" Because all those turkey poults are kind of loud and irritating to the post office staff. (And you know how you do NOT want to irritate a postal worker...could get messy.)
We went to see them when they were about 5 days old. Very cute! Here are the girls setting up an obstacle course for them.
And here is Frank holding a tiny one, and the box where they all stay together for the first couple of weeks:
Awwwww...aren't they adorable?
Have a great week!
3 comments:
You should see them now! We just moved them out to the poultry house, where they are much happier. They had outgrown that box for sure. Thanks again for looking in on them! Come visit them and us again soon!
I have a neighbor that raises turkeys and ducks. She hatches the eggs in an incubator that looks like a mini fridge. Yes, you can mail baby chicks because for the first few days they have the yolk in them that sustains them. Crazy huh?
Baby chicks and turkeys grow up, darn it!!!
that looks really interesting...
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