Carlos D.
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I think you folks down south have lots of wild turkeys . We just got 4 or 5 to run around the yard -- but I notice the tame turkeys are dying (their about 1/2 grown) Can the wild ones give the tame any diseases ?
Jake--what does a girl look like --that keeps over fat turkeys --You have to be careful some old girls dont have the right concept of what is too fatJake":1g17qicl said:one of the girls I run around with had turkeys and they died from being fat and not being able to walk around but they always were givin them anitbiotics for colds and odd stuff like that.
chrisy":1wtlkpe7 said:when I was in Louisiana recently I was amazed to see wild Turkeys roaming around.They are all farmed here.
dun":j70oxf9o said:chrisy":j70oxf9o said:when I was in Louisiana recently I was amazed to see wild Turkeys roaming around.They are all farmed here.
That's why they're called wild turkeys
dun
Carlos D.":172epyma said:Jake--what does a girl look like --that keeps over fat turkeys --You have to be careful some old girls dont have the right concept of what is too fatJake":172epyma said:one of the girls I run around with had turkeys and they died from being fat and not being able to walk around but they always were givin them anitbiotics for colds and odd stuff like that.
carl
The re-introduction of the Wild Turkey has been one of the most sucessful projects of it's kind here in Tennessee.I dont know anyone that's bothered by them.CUZ":1ajkwyhw said:Somewhere in the last 10 to 15 years the State seeded the area with some wild turkeys. Really didn't pay too much attention and occasionally would see a few. Now it seems like I when I'm looking for a new calf that over half the time it's one of those lousy birds making the grass/ bush/weed move, but I don't know until I walk over and get close enough to spook the lousy thing. I encourage all my hunter friends to come thin them out, because it seems the cows don't particularly like them either.
Cuz
CUZ":h20grpjr said:Somewhere in the last 10 to 15 years the State seeded the area with some wild turkeys. Really didn't pay too much attention and occasionally would see a few. Now it seems like I when I'm looking for a new calf that over half the time it's one of those lousy birds making the grass/ bush/weed move, but I don't know until I walk over and get close enough to spook the lousy thing. I encourage all my hunter friends to come thin them out, because it seems the cows don't particularly like them either.
Cuz
Maybe time to harvest some deer.Sevierite":2p09gt6l said:We farm about 30 acres of sandy bottomland. We usually
no-till it with wheat for grazing or straw. The turkeys on
this place have turned it into a big dusthole with their constant
scratching and dust-bathing. It's made the ground so rough
in some places that you have to watch where you're driving.
We used to grow soybeans on this same piece of ground.
There is no way that could be these days. The resident
deer herd would make short work of a soybean field. 30
years ago, it was a real treat to see a deer on this place.
Now, they are everywhere!
You can get too much of a good thing.