Turkey blog-Tatiana’s Epic Love Story- early days

Through a series of unfortunate events, Tatiana was our only surviving chick of our 2024 season of Blue Slate hatch eggs. A flock bird has great psychological difficulty being alone so we bought her some Barnavelder chicks that were about the same age. She never really liked the Barnavelders and they did not bond.

Around the same time we had a group of ducklings that got rejected by their parents. We added 8 ducklings to this little brood flock. Stella named them “The Chex Mix”.

Tatiana loved the ducklings! At first we had them in separate brooder boxes in the same room. Tatiana would jump out of her box and into the duck box. She always wanted to be with the ducklings. I don’t know why. Ducks are a huge mess and very loud. They make up for it in cuteness, I suppose.