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Best part of living on a farm is these tasty thing running through your yard

This way at 8:00 at night right after doing my nighttime farm chores of putting turkeys in their cage & gathering eggs. Was whistling at the back door for dogs to follow me in. This is the other side of the house. My photo cropped, there’s 4 bucks https://image.nostr.build/e929053d2fbef2f2de5ad0d5e1fb2b438359a72d1f71a20d4218b55f29722ba6.jpg  
 Oh no! Spelled it wrong #homesteading 
 They do look tasty, don't they?  
 I don’t know, gonna need to try one to be sure 
 Yes! Easy enough to do when the time comes. 😁 
 If they keep hanging out, they’re on to me though 
 My long term dream has been to have deer close enough to the house to take them nearly silently with a bow or crossbow in harvest season. My grandparents used to live in a rental place in the woods and my grandfather would hunt out of the sliding door for their bedroom. Then it was a simple downhill drag (less than 500 ft) to his work van and off to the butcher shop. Pretty sweet setup. 
 I got one off my deck last year. It was glorious! 
 That's winning son 
 Not son, just a chick with odd hobbies, lol 
 Nice! 
 I can’t wait until deer season! 
 We love venison. I didn’t shoot a deer last year but I’m hoping to this year. 
 I’ve gotten one 4 seasons in a row. I just hunt over a corn pile though, so I’m kinda cheating 
 We've had them hanging around the house too. 
 Do you hunt? 
 My husband does, and looks like it should be a good year. 
 Do you eat turkey eggs?
 
 I buy turkeys in the spring & harvest in the fall, I don’t keep a flock around. That said I had one hen who put out 3-4 eggs in that time period years ago & I most certainly ate those 
 Interesting…
Do you remember how big they were?
Like larger than a goose egg? 
 I’ve never had geese so can’t make that comparison. They were about 2x the size of a chicken egg, but this was an immature female so I don’t know if that would hold true for her next year cycle 
 Ok thank you…
Interesting so it’s somewhere between a duck egg & goose egg then…
I wonder where I can get turkey eggs? 
 If you want to incubate them you can get at a hatchery, to eat look on next door, Craig’s list, local farmers markets. That’s your best bet 
 Thank you  
 No prob!