A Turkey's First Snow

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas...

Today it snowed. My turkey-babies were sleeping soundly tucked away in their winter enclosure, so I thought it would be really fun to record their first impressions of "all that white stuff".

Ami was ecstatic. She started twittering excitedly and wagging her tail feathers in the way that happy birds do. I read somewhere that birds wiggle their tails in response to similiar stimuli as makes humans giggle. So a tail-wiggle is a bird-giggle. It seems to fit the bill well enough. Using that context, Ami was giggling like a little school girl, as well as making her excited POP (or cutt, as the officially terminology goes) and trilling happily. Cal, Cappy, and Pastel were excited and curious too, though not quite as much as Ami. They trilled happily and there was a tail-wiggle here and there (just like giggles, tail-wiggles can also mean nervousness or embarrassment, I've noticed).

All this lil' girl was feeling was pure joy.

But Ami was ecstatic. So much so, that she convinced Doodle to stop eating and come outside to see what was so great.

That. Never. Happens.

Doodle doesn't stop eating until there's nothing left to eat, folks, so whatever Ami was saying, she made snow sound like the best thing since sliced bread.

Doodle was much disappointed. Snow is not sliced bread. In fact, snow is cold and wet. He didn't even bother tasting it. While Ami cheerfully ran up to him and told him all about the snow she had discovered and how wonderful it was, he casually hobbled past her feeling very disgruntled indeed.

"...What's his problem?"

Well, aside from Amigurmi's false advertising, his disgruntlement may have also been due to the fact that he has a bare under-carriage. See, at some point a few months ago, Doodle decided preening was for wimps, or he had better things to do (like eat), or something, because he has woefully neglected his undercarriage and his tail feathers. I helped scratch old casing off of his new tail feathers, but I could get a good enough look at his belly to do the same there. So all he's got on his belly is pin feathers. So he got a whiff of the cold better than anyone.

Do. Not. Like.

But don't take my word for it, watch all the action yourself!