New Member Introduction for Loganspoults.

[Duckduckchicken32]

Hello! I don’t know much about turkey, but it sounds like a nice project! Welcome to BYC!

 

[swampfox440]

Hi, welcome to BYC! pleased to meet you and thanks for joining us.

 

[DobieLover]

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?

 

[rjohns39]

Hi and welcome to BYC We're so happy you've decided to join us

 

[sourland]

Hello, and welcome to BYC. Start by free ranging the poults, and hopefully they will learn how to survive on their own. It will very likely take time, but just releasing them in the wild would be a death sentence.

 

[R2elk]

Hi! Logan is my 24 year old son who loves the outdoors and wildlife. He had me incubate and hatch 8 turkey eggs, 2 of which sadly didn't survive. The remaining 6 seem to be thriving and I'm working diligently to keep it that way. I'm the surrogate mom and I want to help release these guys into the wild when they're ready. I'm hoping with help from you folks, we'll be able to do so. I wasn't prepared for this undertaking, but I'm committed and willing to take it on. I hope you'll help!

It is illegal to release the poults into the wild as well as them not being able to survive on their own. If you want to release birds into the wild, you have to have a release permit from your state. Depending on which state you live in, it may not be possible to get a release permit.

The way you have worded this makes me think you have illegally hatched wild turkey eggs that were stolen from a wild hen's nest. If that is the case, the best thing you can do is to turn them over to your local game warden or DNR agent.

The birds would need to be old enough for you to have taught them how to free range.

 

[Fuchsia]

Hello
Welcome to BYC!

 

[Loganspoults]

Welcome.
I'm not so sure the turkeys you incubated and hatched will survive if you ditch them in the wild.

Ive wondered about that too. I'm definitely going to research it before I even consider letting them go. I'm already very attached to them .

 

[Kiki]

Ive wondered about that too. I'm definitely going to research it before I even consider letting them go. I'm already very attached to them .

Where did you get the eggs?

 

[Loganspoults]

It is illegal to release the poults into the wild as well as them not being able to survive on their own. If you want to release birds into the wild, you have to have a release permit from your state. Depending on which state you live in, it may not be possible to get a release permit.

The way you have worded this makes me think you have illegally hatched wild turkey eggs that were stolen from a wild hen's nest. If that is the case, the best thing you can do is to turn them over to your local game warden or DNR agent.

The birds would need to be old enough for you to have taught them how to free range.

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?