Turkey blog-Tatiana’s Epic Love Story-Lukewarm

Misha now goes on full display in Tatiana’s presence. She predominantly ignores him. She continues to follow me around when I am outside but the crying outside my gate has stopped. I consider this to be good progress.

Misha is king of the barnyard. We have several feeders the birds have access to to avoid to much competition. Tatiana will not allow the chickens to eat at a feeder with her but she lets the ducks eat with her. Misha allows no one but Tatiana to eat with him. He is so big in comparison to the others that they don’t question it. They just steer clear of him and either wait or go to another feeder.

She still gets down in front of me all the time. Misha is usually nearby and I call his attention to this behavior which he is already aware of. I slowly step away so he can approach her. As soon as he touches her she gets up and runs away. He is young and somewhat shy and tentative. I have never observed them to mate successfully but she tolerates his presence in a general sense now.

He is starting to show protective behavior regarding her also which I like to see. Sometimes when she is being overly helpful and I have to shoo her away, he puffs up at me and comes up to get between us. He generally follows her at a distance wherever she goes.