If you’ve visited the farm recently, not only will you know that our turkeys are high-welfare, you also won’t have failed to have noticed that they’re high-class too. Our birds, including the heritage Norfolk Blacks, have been listening to classical radio and have even been known to enjoy a bit of The Archers.
Such a spectacle often leaves visitors slightly bemused, or at least a little curious. But don’t worry, we haven’t completely lost it! The radio is in fact to ward off cunning foxes and (touch wood!) so far it’s been working.
You see, we don’t think it’s the fox’s fault that millions of years of evolution have primed it to have a taste for our poultry. However, that doesn’t mean we’d be too happy if one managed to outwit us. The responsibility therefore lies with the farmer to outwit the fox and protect their birds. And in this age of the internet and jumbo jets, putting up a tall fence, surrounding the bottom with an electric fence and throwing in a radio really wasn’t beyond us.
The only dilemma this now leaves us with is…...What are we going to do when the radio starts playing Christmas music?
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