fowl play

A few months ago, I bought some new turkey poults, two black Spanish poults. These turkey poults were incredibly fun to raise since I raised them very differently from any other turkeys, I have raised considering I raised them more like pets rather than livestock. What I would do is teach them to recognize me by hand feeding them and holding them often and imitating turkey hen sounds so they recognize me as their mother. Once they were old enough and bonded to me, I taught them things they would normally learn in the wild like kind things to avoid like common predator like canids, how to fly to avoid those predators, what kind food you can eat, how defend themselves against smaller predators. One awkward thing that was difficult to teach them was how to perch because they always pace fences waiting for me to see them so they would never get on their perch at night, so what I would have to do at night is place them on their perch and sit there and make sure they would stay on them. Know it is present day and how did they turn out well they just loony and do not act like turkey at all they run after and chase anything smaller than them like the neighborhood cats, run at people to check them out, jump on everything that looks scalable and get in trouble in any feasible way they can. Despite these turkeys not turning out the way I wanted them to, they are one of my favorite animals on my small farm.