Christmas Dinners growing well

Yes I know it's only May, but our little Christmas dinners are growing very well. We had a day of Sun and they doubled in size overnight!

These guys rule the roost in the field, everyone else stays out of their way or else. We don't even let strangers into the field, especially children because they are quite nasty! Diz has earned mutual respect from Bruiser but he will still push the boundary with me. It's hard to believe that the little ones are only four weeks old in this photo, their feathers are growing rapidly now.
We haven't actively tried to sell any for Christmas, but we will keep two for ourselves and either keep the others for orders or sell them as Gosling's. It will all depend on what they look like.

Once they get a little bigger so they can't fit through the gap in the gate, we will try to strip graze the ground so that the grass has a chance to grow before it's nibbled, this way it might last a little longer.

I have just taken delivery of our other Christmas dinners, in the form of eggs. These are Bourbon Red Turkey eggs, they will have red feathers instead of the traditional Bronze. Fingers crossed they hatch, in twenty eight days we will find out. Can't wait, the Turkeys are great fun. We really enjoyed raising them ourselves two years ago. We probably won't need 18, that's a lot of plucking!!





Stella xx