wrote:
She is still here. She roosts at night wa-a-a-a-y up in a tree. I just
started buying chicken food and throwing on the ground out there.
Sometimes she disappears for a couple of days, but comes back. I
thought about penning her because of coyotes, but decided she *is* a
wild thing and probably better to have a short life doing turkey things
than living a long one penned up.
I found out where she probably came from. The Wildlife Department
raised turkeys for release around here to increase the population.
They're wild turkeys, but they're used to being around the wildlife
people that raised them. Bootsie still chases her whenever she gets the
chance. Silly girl.

That's so cool that she decided to stay with you. Bootsie is as silly as
Nikki was. She would stalk pheasants that were twice her size.

--
Marina, Frank and Miranda. In loving memory of Nikki.
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