Turkey blog-Tatiana’s Epic Love Story-Who am I?

Tatiana was raised with chickens and ducks. She doesn’t like chickens and she loves ducks but I believe that she knows that she herself is neither a chicken or duck. She may believe that she’s a rancher! Of all the beings that she has grown up with she seems to have mostly imprinted on us.

She is extremely tame and has no fear of us at all. She is curious to the point of being a busybody. Any project or task that I’m doing however novel or mundane she is right there in it, helping. She is in fact more helpful than the goats even at doing projects. If you have ever had goats help you with a project, you know what I mean!!

I have been working on their “Chex Mix” area to prepare for spring and another round of chicks and ducklings. We were planning to purchase a run of Heritage Blue Slate turkeys this spring. Our breeding group of Blue Slates are Tatiana’s parents so that line is not appropriate for a mate choice for her. We would choose a Tom from the new group and she would begin mating in 2026. That was the plan…