A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[Molpet]

I heard the turkeys after something and they were after a small juvenile eagle who had a black chicken hen against fencing. I hope he learned his lesson. She seems to be ok. Lots of feathers lost and she's panting.
Of course they went after her when the eagle left, but she ran back with the others under cover

 

[KF0002]

I heard the turkeys after something and they were after a small juvenile eagle who had a black chicken hen against fencing. I hope he learned his lesson. She seems to be ok. Lots of feathers lost and she's panting.
Of course they went after her when the eagle left, but she ran back with the others under cover

We've had that happen with owls. They tear them up bad. Glad your hen is okay!!

 

[R2elk]

We've had that happen with owls. They tear them up bad. Glad your hen is okay!!

@rjohns39 had some young toms that would kill owls.

 

[Molpet]

We've had that happen with owls. They tear them up bad. Glad your hen is okay!!

Thanks
She stayed in the coop yesterday but looked good.

@rjohns39 had some young toms that would kill owls.

I wish mine would kill owls. But my owls sneak up at night and get the turkeys.

I had Jakes fighting a couple times yesterday and managed to grab one each time. Parted them out so they fit in the refrigerator. 4 more to go. I have been throwing corn in an old dog run that I can shut and last year get them with a net. I got one Thursday in there and now they are wise to that. Hopefully they will forget or fight in front of me so I can grab legs.

 

[Huntmaster]

I got one Thursday in there and now they are wise to that. Hopefully they will forget

My turkeys have never forgotten the sight of my net. If they see it the whole yard alarm purrs and all start to scatter. And they say elephants have best memories, but my turkeys never forget the sight of net or killing cones. If you have trouble with human aggressive toms just let them watch you catch and kill a few of their counterparts and see how they act towards you after that.

 

[Molpet]

My turkeys have never forgotten the sight of my net. If they see it the whole yard alarm purrs and all start to scatter. And they say elephants have best memories, but my turkeys never forget the sight of net or killing cones. If you have trouble with human aggressive toms just let them watch you catch and kill a few of their counterparts and see how they act towards you after that.

Didn't bother The first 4 jakes I had. The dominant were people aggressive and they watched their brothers get wacked right in front of them

I leave the net in the yard and occasionally walk around with it. But they can read my body language and know when freezer camp bus is running.

 

[Huntmaster]

freezer camp bus is running.

Need to get my freezer camp bus running also to many extra Toms and jakes this spring things are getting a little crazy out there right now.

 

[Molpet]

Need to get my freezer camp bus running also to many extra Toms and jakes this spring things are getting a little crazy out there right now.

Yeah I have 5 toms (one's lame and doesn't cause any troubles but useless for breeding unless flat ground)....and 4 jakes. All together with 20+ hens.
The toms were ok last year. Dominant would breed and other 3 fight while the breeding went on. But they were jakes and the lame tom is from them ganging up on him. The older hens preferred the lame tom last year. Even though he was lame.
So I plan on getting the rest of the jakes unless a toms buy a bus ticket.

 

[Huntmaster]

Yes, those jakes are always looking to take advantage of any weakness in the boss. Kinda sounds like some of the younger generation nowadays.

 

[Bantambird]

I have a few extra jakes that made it into this year because they just weren't quite big enough for Thanksgiving of Christmas dinner. They are about the right sized for Easter dinner, though. I did have a jake start choking when I was throwing out feed yesterday, he was stumbling and trying to cough, I spotted him and started firmly patting his back and he didn't run or respond by paying much attention to me, so I ran my hand gently massaging his esophagus and helped him work the feed down and he realized at that time that I WAS TOUCHING HIM! He started freaking out as soon as he was done choking and he nearly wing punched me in the eye trying to flee. Talk about ungrateful!