People urged to keep away from any wild turkeys

Johnson City (TN) Press ^ | September 14, 2012 | Jennifer Sprouse

[going hot]

[goat granny]

Not me either. When I had the farm one of the birds I raised was Royal Palm turkeys, One pen inside the chicken coop and the other outside with fencing...1 male and 3 female royal Palms....A wild one flew into the outside enclosure and he and my tom got into bloody fight. My husband didn't ‘t like birds so he handed me the leather gloves and said......go getum Judy....I finally got the 2 untangled and grabbed the wild one by the legs and threw him into the part of the chicken coop that held my other Royals.....He had a beard that reached the ground. I ended up giving him a couple of females for himself....breeding 2 different breeds (coloration) was quite interesting...

[JohnnyP]

PBS did a story on raising wild turkeys:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/my-life-as-a-turkey/full-episode/7378/

Darn, can’t get the video to play.

[goat granny]

The last house I lived in, the fellow who’s back yard butted up to mine...we would sometimes talk over the fence...He was in a club that set up and keep tract of the wild turkeys they let loose in Michigan. When I told him about the wild turkey I had on the farm, he said it might have been a domestic turkey that got loose from a farm...the turkeys they let loose are kept tract of and I think he said also genetics....there is a domestic turkey that looks just like the wild ones. The difference is noted in the edge of the tail feathers....I think he said the wild are edged in brown and the domestic was white...The wild turkey association doesn’t like the domestics that run loose, their offspring are not genetic 100% wild....

This is just a stab in the dark, (being over 20 years ago) but I think the one I ended up having was wild....not sure but the demestic one’s are called Russets....Royal Palm are totally white except for the edging on each feather is black..

[driftless2]

There is a flock of wild turkeys close to where I live. A flock pass by the property next to our house about a month ago. My wife and I have occasionally seen them frolicking on the lawn of a house across the road from the woods where the birds must have their digs. My question: are the people who own the property the turkeys occasionally pass time on allowed to shoot or trap them if they’re on their property?

[Jonah Hex]

"Don't hate me 'cause I'm beautiful."

[don-o]

eet mor tir-kee

[Darnright]

You never know about those darn turkeys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In5s7r6JQW0