Since it was around Thanksgiving, our club's leader decided to get turkeys so that we could raise an sell them to people for Thanksgiving dinner. We set up an electric fence, put up some wire coops inside and released the turkeys that we had bought in their new home. Things went smoothly for the first couple weeks, but soon the turkeys started getting a bit older, and there for bigger, stronger, and more rebellious. And of course it was the job of the 4-H kids to take care of these birds. This included feeding them, giving them water, and putting them in their coops at night. That last task is where most of the problems occurred, because the turkeys really, REALLY did not want to go in. They would make us chase them around the coops, attack us, climb under things, and one even jumped onto the coop itself. (the coops were like 6 feet tall) not to mention the times when they escaped and we had to chase a turkey across a field in total darkness (it was in the evening) So this thanksgiving, when I'm eating turkey, I won't take it for granted.
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