Well I finally lucked up at the auction last night! I have been going and going ,looking for Royal Palm Turkeys! The first time ,several months back, They had a pretty beat up Tom, but young. He was so nasty and raggedy, but I figured I could get him for a song and take him home! I was sure with a lot of love and rehab I could turn him into a fat and sassy Big boy! Welllllllllll, would you believe that raggedy thing brought over $40.00!!!!!!!! I definitely couldnt manage that! So he went home with someone else!
I look for them every time I go to market! I only want a pair. Usually they are grown or mostly so, so the prices would range much too high for me!
So last night they had 2 tiny cages with a pair in each one! I waited on the first pair, looked to be at least well started and about 4 weeks old! So I sat there with the wiggles trying to get a bid in and realized that there were about 6 people bidding on them, soooooooo the bids kept getting higher and higher!
Now when I say high, I mean they started out at $5.00 apiece, I could handle that, but when the bid got up to 7 then 8 , I just sat back and let all the breath out that I had been holding! I knew that the bids were going way over my head! Then just as I gave up, wouldnt you know it the actioneer called $8.90 each and SOLD!!!! I was so sad!
Now I dont give up that easily!!! So I made up my mind! I wasnt going to buy anything else... I didnt NEED any thing other than the last pair of b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l White Palm Babies coming up!!!! So they brought them out! They were the tiniest little things I had ever seen for a Turkey, Still with a little bit of FLuff and because it was so late in the evening they had already given up and were trying to sleep , so they wouldnt move! I also noticed that there was NO water in there tiny little wire cage! Poor little things they had been there all day since about 2:00 or before and it was now going on 9:00 PM!
Now I was worried! I know Turkeys can be difficult when babies! I gathered my good ole southern Country girl backbone and sat high in the Saddle, in that ole fold up chair and waited for them to begin the bidding!
Okay bids started at $2.00, that was very good for me, then it went to $3, then $3.50 , then 4 then 5 , $5.50...,$5.75..., $6.00,...$7.00....$7.25...and I grabbed for it $7.50 !!!!! $7.50 ,,,"$8.00 do I hear $8.00...... $7.50 it is ...Sold To the lady nearly falling out of her Chair!!!!!"
Okay , Okay, maybe it wasnt all that dramatic, but I WON!!!!! So here are my Precious little Turkeys!
So very Tired and Thirsty !
