New Member Introduction for Loganspoults.

[Loganspoults]

Hello and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.
Good luck with the poults.
How do you plan to keep them wild so they can survive on their own?

The more responses I'm reading, the more I'm seeing this isn't going to happen. Looks like I'm a new Turkey mom and I'm going to need a lot of information to give these babies a good life. Looks like I'm in the right place, so I know I can do it!

 

[R2elk]

I don't know anything about wildlife laws in TN. All I know is my son was cutting in a hayfield and he saw the hen leave the nest. From fear, of course. He watched the nest to see if she'd return, knowing once a hen is run off her nest she won't return. He hoped, against nature, she would but after 2 hours in 101degree temps, she didn't. He brought them home and i had never dealt with anything like this before. I simply found what I could on the internet and to my shock 6 have survived. They hatched after 5 says incubation. I haven't had a full night's rest ever since trying to give them their best start in life. Do they have.to be turned over to a game warden if I decided to keep them? Since they weren't born in the wild?

Taking the eggs was illegal. Hatching the eggs was illegal. Having possession of the poults is illegal.

Ignorance of the law has been ruled to not be a legal defense.

Turning the poults in is your only legal recourse. You could try to turn them in to a licensed rehabber.

 

[Grammy60]

Hello and welcome to BYC So happy you have joined our flock.

 

[Kiki]

The more responses I'm reading, the more I'm seeing this isn't going to happen. Looks like I'm a new Turkey mom and I'm going to need a lot of information to give these babies a good life. Looks like I'm in the right place, so I know I can do it!

You are most likely breaking a law so please do the right thing.

 

[Dr Evy]

Welcome to BYC. We’re so glad you joined!

 

[Loganspoults]

You are most likely breaking a law so please do the right thing.

So I should take them to a game warden? I've never been in any kind of trouble and I'm a church going woman and I'm not going to jail over 6 little poults. However, now that they're here they have had constant supervision, I haven't slept a full night since they arrived to make sure they're okay, I'm researching everything before I do anything or give them anything to make sure it's the best to give them so they can have the best start. They don't know that they are wild. Are you saying my son should've ran over the nest with his mower because the hen wasn't returning? I don't understand the difference between turkey eggs that are shipped to you to incubate and raise and this case scenario? I've obviously done the wrong thing and I'll be withdrawing from this site. No help to be found here. Only judgement for not wanting these little guys to die alone in a hayfield.

 

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Thanks to all that welcomed our new member, this thread has been closed to additional responses at this time.

@Loganspoults I have sent you a private conversation. Please let me know if you have any questions.