On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other hazard
Joyce Bupp
You, turkey, you.
That was the “gist” of the
mumbling under my breath,
while tossing calf feed leftovers to
the hen and gobbler pair hanging
around for a handout one recent
mortiing.
Our gobbler has grown into his
role as the farm’s dominant fowl,
in size and puffed-up self-impor
tanqe. His companion hen was
the bird we unexpectedly found,
a few weeks ago, hunkered down
in a flowerbed on a nest overflow
ing with eggs. Snuggled in under
a wide peony clump and several
tall tiger-lily stalks, her natural
coloration blended in perfectly.
The Farmer had noticed her
slinking into the perennial patch,
but not coming back out.
After hatching, we got only
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perfunctory glances of her fami
ly, which she had promptly relo
cated to an untilled (read weedy)
comer beyond the lawn. Field
equipment is parked there tem
porarily during the busy season,
along with a supply of round hay
bales for heifer feeding. A small
patch of sunflower-planted wild
life cover nearby enhances the
site as a haven for birds, includ
ing turkey hatchlings.
However, the adventurous
mother had not been satisfied to
stay in that relatively safe area.
Instead, in a fit of incredibly poor
timing, she led her poults up the
hill into an alfalfa strip, just be
fore the tractor and haybine
began cutting swaths of third
cutting hay. In the high alfalfa, of
course, they were totally hidden.
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By the time the hen erupted into
flight right at the tractor, it was
already too late for the chicks.
It was a sad day.
Still missing several days after
that disappointment was our sec
ond hen, daughter of the oilier
from her first hatch last spring. A
neighbor had reported seeing a
turkey in our neighboring wood
ed housing development, beyond
the pastures, some time ago, so
we puzzled if she was gone.
And so, on that morning,
watching the pair picking at left
over feed, I was puzzling over the
whereabouts of the absent third
bird. That turkey.
Shortly after finishing calf
feeding and cleanup chores, I de
toured around the garden for a
few tomatoes. With absolutely no
warning, a hen turkey suddenly
exploded up into the air from the
tangled row, winging by the front
of my face. She landed merely
feet away, at the garden’s edge,
then just stood there, quietly
clucking a turkey’s “perking”
sounds.
Several stunned seconds
passed before I realized she
wasn’t going anywhere and was,
in fact, calling a brood back to
gether. Backtracking out of the
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garden confirmed several tiny
pouts milling about, promptly
disappearing at the motherly in
structions into a grassy strip be
tween the garden and cornfield.
One small turkey poult had
somehow managed during the
flurry to land upside down on the
stony field road along the garden,
and lay there, tiny twiggy legs
flailing at the air. Knowing a
couple of cats were at my heels, I
slowly knelt to the stony roadbed,
leaned forward, reached out and
flipped the hatchling back up
right.
In that split-second of time,
mother turkey launched her
10-pound or so body directly in
the air toward my face. I ducked.
She sailed barely out over my
head, wheeled around and was
almost instantly back with the
chicks, indignantly leading them
off into the cornfield and away
from the two-legged invader and
feline friends.
Brown Bag Alert
LEESPORT (Berks Co.) If of “study lunches” that had been
your child chooses to carry a placed in various lockers on the
lunch to school this year, you sixth floor. Half of the lunches
may be interested in knowing the tested included a frozen drink
results of a study done by the box with the sandwich,
eighth grade nutrition classes at Th t . lasted five davs and
Lebanon School District. . 1 r* 60 I ‘ ve da f and
In class discussion the Depart- showed * hat sandw,c J l u “ h ‘
ment of Health guidelines stated es reac^*ed locker
that refrigerated foods can devel- temperature of 70 F by about
op harmful bacteria if left out of 9:30 a- f n - The sandwich and fro
the refrigerator for more than zen drink lunches in most cases
two hours. Students voiced a con- did not go bad by 11:30 a.m.
cem about their lunches which Though this was still in the “dan
were stored in lockers all mom- ger zone,” the inclusion of the
ing. They knew that refrigerated frozen drink box made a signifi
food should not be left in (he cant difference in the amount of
“danger zone” (40 to 140°F) for time the sandwich was at the
more than two hours or bacteria wgher temperature.
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that most lunches were jnade ,ljy filled with ice, or an insulated
7:30 a.m. arid not eaten until ,s another way to keep a
11:40 a.m. or later, a span of well ,unch temperature low. Some
over four hours. brown baggers freeze certain
Armed with thermometers, the
students recorded temperatures
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Though she could have very
easily raked my face, my eyes,
my head with her extremely
sharp toenails, the hen had
touched not a hair on my head.
She obviously meant me no
harm, but the message was clear:
back off!
Spying on the little family later
with field glasses, as they made
brief appearances outside grassy
cover areas, we got a count of at
least eight. Following days of
flooding downpours, the number
had dropped to two.
Somehow it seems a bird ag
gressive enough to attack a
human many times her size
would also instinctively find safe,
drier spots to shelter her little
ones. On the other hand, we
probably don’t need 10 turkeys
hanging out in the calf nursery
or even backyard birdfeeder they
love to frequent.
You, turkey, you.
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