Oh no, how awful!I often forget the sound is coming from my toms and somewhere in the bak of my mind I'm counting it as heavy construction equipment somewhere down the highway...then I remember it's the boys.
The uniforms were changed in the late 90's because the rural mail carriers were getting flogged by wild turkeys in Ohio...odd but true!!
I will need one of those. And some Icelandics. And some Blue Wheatens. I had a catastrophic failure on hatch day today. Lost pretty much everything. You and I are in the same loss count in the hundreds on this one.
Okay I found her. When we got that heavy snow, I followed the little turkey foot prints, lead me right to her in my neighbors front yard, snug under a wonderful low lying pine. I found two eggs along the path, looks like a rat bit them....I always picture that rat from Charlotte's Web, you know Templeton, he liked the rotten goose eggs and carried them off, that's what happened to the turkey eggs. Well anyways, I took the eggs, 8 of them, two were seeping last night, others are questionable, due to it being really cold and a long walk to the coop to eat and drink and back, were talking about 750 plus feet. She gave up so maybe she will lay again.Turkeys like brush, so if you have a lot of brushy area's check there also bushes, under buildings, random open objects ect. Look in every nook and cranny, every dark weird place you can find.
( I know the brush part from my husband he turkey hunts lol ) but other then that I'd just look literally everywhere. When Mama hen started to lay I found her nest in my oyster roster. Haha. But seriously, I'be found nests under the gap between the ground and my building, in my sons powerwheel john deere gator, in my truck bed. Everywhere. A fallen log that had been wallered out ect. These ground nesters are a pain lol!!
Quote: I pull my Tom's bearded,I think he kind of likes it. Does yours chase your car? Mine goes around and around, he's runs after it when we leave.
