Royal Palm Tom Stolen

[cowdogcadillac]

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You'd be shocked what people will do. There was a Bum camp down the road in the woods for a while and they were taking all my eggs from in the coop( not just a few) . I caught them red-handed. I fenced the property and that seemed to end that.
I generally trust people but there are some out there that will go over a 6' fence carrying a turkey for the thrill of it or because they just want a turkey dinner for free

 

[Frosty]

I'm glad he came back! I think even if they hear turkeys that a a distance away, it may be enough to attract him. I don't think it's stupidity that keeps them from flying back in, I think fences simply confuse them. 'I can see through it, why can't I walk through?' In nature, if they can see through they can usually squeeze through (like in brush). Fences just aren't natural to them.

 

[Blisschick]

I'm glad your guy came back. I've got a Royal Palm tom, too, that I'm using for breeding, and he's just as mean. It seems the dominant males always have the bad attitude. I have 3 others that are out (I did have 4, but they would visit the neighbors, and I think he got invited to dinner

), and the dominant one of those is actually very sweet, surprisingly. I have to keep the Palm put away in the pen or he'll be beating everyone up.

I also have a turkey that has a bum leg. He caught it in the corner of a kennel and I found him hanging upside down, but not before he'd done some damage trying to get loose. He's my pet, so I had to nurse him back to health. He'd already lost an eye to fowlpox when he was only a few months old. I'd been feeling really bad for my poor old guy, so I had let him loose in the yard to work his leg some, and forgot about him until after dark. I was worried he'd get taken by an old coon we have around here, but I found him perched up in the edge of the chicken pens, at least 6' up. I'm still trying to figure that one out, since he can barely walk on that foot! And after I felt sorry for having to keep him penned up, he jumped right back into the pen with the chickens. I guess because it's an easy meal and he can boss the chickens around, he feels safer in there than with the other toms telling him which part of the yard he can't be in.

 

[Blisschick]

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I agree with this statement. I've had to "save" more than one turkey from a fence that had managed to fly over it to begin with.

 

[crtrlovr]

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Had to LOL -- just couldn't help myself!

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

I am glad my Blacks are not agressive! My kids gather their eggs.

Maybe he will stay home now that he knows what the world looks like.