clipping wings on turkeys or what?

[erinszoo]

We have one tom white holland that has decided he wants to fly out of the yard all the time. We live in town and can't have him in the neighbors yard or running up the alley of course. Will clipping his wings keep him grounded? Or is there another way to keep him in without clipping? We want to enter him in the fair in September here because he is such a beautiful bird but we don't really want to clip his wings before that ... but we have to keep him in the yard. Any ideas?

 

[Kevin565]

Unless you are going to keep him penned you will need to clip wings.

 

[frank53061]

We have one tom white holland that has decided he wants to fly out of the yard all the time. We live in town and can't have him in the neighbors yard or running up the alley of course. Will clipping his wings keep him grounded? Or is there another way to keep him in without clipping? We want to enter him in the fair in September here because he is such a beautiful bird but we don't really want to clip his wings before that ... but we have to keep him in the yard. Any ideas?

I clip the wings and I live in the country with acres of land and I find its needed.
Here is a little Folk History for you.
Clip the wings according to your political affiliation clip the left wing your a Democrat the right wing your a Republican just a piece of history for you....By the way clip both wings your undecided.

By the way the feathers grow back fast 2 to 3 weeks for me to redo the clipping and when there full grown the Tomes get so heavy they dont do much flying.

 

[Lagerdogger]

I don't like to clip wings eithre, but have found it to be necessary. Otherwise the birds get out of their pen and sometimes get into predator trouble. I choose which wing to clip based on parentage. There are a lot of combinations of clips and leg bands. By the way, if you clip primaries from both wings they can still fly sorta. By clipping just one wing, they will spin out and crash when they try to fly. This can be problematic at first if your turkey is used to flying.

 

[De Wet]

i only clip mine when they are in a new open pen after that when they are use to the pen i left them without any problems

 

[n8mont4]

I clip mine every couple of weeks. It keeps them somewhat grounded. They can still fly about 4 -5 ft high. only problem it is a pain to clip them. They hate it.

 

[erinszoo]

Well, we clipped one wing on our tom that keeps flying out of the yard ... AND ... he still flies right over the 6 foot fence like we didn't do anything. We ended up covering their day pen with netting so that we can at least leave them out if we have to go somewhere and can't be home to watch them. The thing that gets us is that none of the other turkeys even try to fly ... just him. What a pain.

 

[frank53061]

As the Tomes get older they dont seem to fly near as much.
How high is your fence I clip my Turkeys wings they might get as much as 4 to 5 feet high max.
what breed are these turkeys.