Ky hills
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Went out this morning, and saw these right behind the house.
Turkeys
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greybeard
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Other than on a bottle label, I haven't seen a wild turkey in over a dozen years.
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Ky hills
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When I was child there were none here turkeys or coyotes. Now they are both plentiful. We see turkeys almost every day. Sometimes just a few and sometimes big groups of twenty or more.
Dave
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I have a few around. People here who have bigger flocks claim they have a lot less snakes. If that is true I could use a bunch more of them. The mountain lions are hard on then. The turkeys roost in the juniper trees. The cats wait until after dark, easily climb the tree, and have turkey dinner even if it is not Thanksgiving.
wbvs58
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Are your wild ones good eating?
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Ky hills
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They are, turkey hunting is a pretty big thing here.
We have tons here. I see at least 20 every day. About 10 years ago, as I left for work, we had about 50 in our front yard. We have Coyotes but the Turkey population is just too high.
coachg
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Terrible things to have on your farm ! Wake you up gobbling in the spring. Scratching up your seeds in the garden . I'll be happy to come thin them out for you ! 
We have a ridiculous amount of turkeys!!! Front & back yard, literally right by the house. Barnyard, right outside the workshop, by the bale rings, in the pastures and especially around Hubby's hunting blind during the fall/winter. They're not really scared of us and completely ignore the barn cats. The struggle is real.
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Ky hills
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Other day we were over checking cattle, and heard what I figure was a young tom, my wife started trying to imitate his sound and and it answered her back several times.
Here is a long but funny story. As I said, we have tons of wild turkeys here. That same time as mentioned above, about 10 years ago, my wife was telling her sister who now lives in Ohio about all of the turkeys we had and about the 50 or so in the yard that morning. The wife's sister and her family were coming to visit just a few weeks later.
We have a neighbor that likes to keep a few exotic animals, nothing crazy, but she had some Rheas (similar to an ostrich-pic below) at that time that she kept in a field directly across from our driveway which is about 1/4 mile long. Just about dusk, my SIL and her husband show up and he has a look of shock on his face. He turned to me and said, I knew there were wild turkeys around here, but on our way in, I just saw the biggest damn Turkey I have ever seen in my life.......
We have a neighbor that likes to keep a few exotic animals, nothing crazy, but she had some Rheas (similar to an ostrich-pic below) at that time that she kept in a field directly across from our driveway which is about 1/4 mile long. Just about dusk, my SIL and her husband show up and he has a look of shock on his face. He turned to me and said, I knew there were wild turkeys around here, but on our way in, I just saw the biggest damn Turkey I have ever seen in my life.......
Caustic Burno
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I had a small flock of 12 or so on my place until Rita.
It displaced or destroyed them ever once in a great while get one on game camera.
It displaced or destroyed them ever once in a great while get one on game camera.
Caustic Burno
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If you run into one before daylight going to the deer stand will scare the crap out of you.
Double aught will take it out like Jurassic Park.
Caustic Burno
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I don't guess you get much meat after hitting one with that load.
Caustic Burno
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It ain't fit to eat.
kenny thomas
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Sounds like you have tried?
SmokinM
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Who hasn't?
We had some "wild" ones around for awhile that got happened upon while trail riding. Not only are they fast your horse is usually running the opposite way.
One of the neighbor's birds died and the other eventually jumped a 5 ft. fence. The one that broke free roamed around the area in different fields for a couple of months because there was no way that it was going to be herded or caught. I have no idea whatever happened to it, but it was just gone one day.
