The big roll of electric poultry netting came from Premier One Supplies today so it was time to move on to stage three with the turkeys. Until this year, our flock has always remained within the confines of the portable bottomless hut until butcher day. It would get moved once-twice-three times a day depending on the birds' size and how much they were eating. But with the flock growing this year, I decided to try something new--actually letting them loose within an electrified perimeter (and yes, Molly & Flint, I clipped their wings so they wouldn't fly off into the wild blue sunset).
I thought that butting the electric netting up against the electrified high-tensile perimeter fence would be fine, but the birds have scooted under the bottom wire and are now starting to roam. I guess I'll have to enclose the entire perimeter with the poultry netting. The turkeys are the little black dots all over the green pasture (yes, it finally rained). I think they're kind of cool roaming around, but with my luck they'd wander into the woods never to return.
Fifteen minutes later......Being the social creatures they are, when Ralph watered the cows the turkeys followed him back to the barn which is near the road--NOT GOOD. So Jess & I got a bucket of feed and coaxed the flock back to the poultry netting and set it up in a completely enclosed area.
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