Turkey blog-Tatiana’s Epic Love Story-Craigslist

Soon, the general consensus on the ranch was that Tatiana needs a mate right now, not in the spring, not next fall, right now!!!

I had heard that you could find a boyfriend on Craigslist, so we began our search. We could not find a Heritage Blue Slate turkey within 200 miles. We really like the blue slates and wanted to keep that line going here. Tatiana continued to cry outside my gate. We expanded our search to any variety of heritage turkey. We found a bonded pair of Narragansett’s in Eastern Oregon. We thought they looked good and Tatiana would be able to join with them. At the time there was heavy snow on all the mountain passes that we would have to cross to get them. It was too difficult even with Norms 4 wheel drive.

Then we saw a post for a young Narragansett Tom turkey in Washington not too far from us. I made arrangements to pick him up. I showed Tatiana his photo on my phone. She pecked my sleeve and got down, which likely had nothing to do with the photo on my phone but that’s what happened.

I arrived at this young turkeys home. His owner took me to his back yard and the turkey walked up to us. He was a tame suburban turkey who was well loved and cared for. He was tall and gangly like a teen turkey but stunningly beautiful. It was that moment that I fell in love with Narragansetts. They are amazing, beautiful birds. I plan to get more in the future once everyone settles in and Tatiana’s situation resolves.

He rode home in the front seat of my truck with me. This was his first trip away from his home. He was nervous but curious. We sat in my truck and looked at each other. Tatiana has blue eyes and the first thing I noticed about him was his big brown eyes. He looked right at me and I could see his intelligence. I told him that he was going to have a good life and we drove home.