Who knew turkeys loved shiny objects so much? In the spring of 2003 I lived on 30 acres that used to be an old bean field outside the city of Cabot, Arkansas. I had always wanted to have a farm and farm animals so I bought 20 baby turkeys to raise and add to the animals I already had. No one told me that turkeys could be painful. I spent several months feeding and caring for these small little turkeys to get them grown enough to go out in my pen with the other feathered farm creatures. When they were finally big enough out to the pen they went. Every morning before I left for work I would go out and feed all of my animals and this day started just as any other. It as a very clear morning and the sun shone brightly in the morning sky as I opened the old wooden gate to my chicken pen. I was instantly surrounded by clucking chickens, quacking ducks, and chattering turkeys. All of them so happy to see me and so impatiently waiting on the feed they so loved. I reached into the cold metal coffee can to get a handful of the cracked grains and spread them onto the soft brown dirt. In between scattering the grains I would stop for the occasional head scratches and to pet the ones who would allow it. Looking down it was a sea of feathers, chickens, turkeys, and ducks, all together not able to tell where one stopped …show more content…
Turkeys also have very sharp beaks. They are able to inflict some pretty painful damage that does require a trip to the eye doctor, an eye doctor who finds the fact that a turkey pecked a chunk of my cornea out quite funny. As I sat somewhat embarrassed in the exam chair with a bright light shining in my eye, all of the employees at the eye clinic paraded through to look at my eye and laugh. I had become the patient with an injury inflicted by a turkey. I wasn’t as amused as they