My husband took his wild turkey call down into the basement brooder with the (almost) month-old turkey poults today. It was hilarious. It's a scratchy-box-looking thing, and on one side you can make the call of a hen, and the other side is supposed to sound more like a tom, and you do different stuff to make different calls (signals/language).
Anyway, the funniest thing was, even though these babies have never laid eyes on a "mama" turkey, when Alex made the hen-clucking sound on his call, it was like turkey-hypnosis! They all relaxed, and their eyes started getting droopy wherever they stood/roosted, until they were asleep--even though they'd been running around eating just a minute before. I wish I had a picture, but I was being really still and quiet so as not to spoil the effect!
But 2 seconds of the "tom" sound, and BAM! WAKE-UP CALL! They all got really agitated, enough so that I didn't let him do it for more than a few seconds. And to me, the calls sound almost exactly the same; the tom one is just deeper.
The calls had the same effect every time we tried them. It was fascinated. Highly recommended cheap entertainment!
Anyway, the funniest thing was, even though these babies have never laid eyes on a "mama" turkey, when Alex made the hen-clucking sound on his call, it was like turkey-hypnosis! They all relaxed, and their eyes started getting droopy wherever they stood/roosted, until they were asleep--even though they'd been running around eating just a minute before. I wish I had a picture, but I was being really still and quiet so as not to spoil the effect!
But 2 seconds of the "tom" sound, and BAM! WAKE-UP CALL! They all got really agitated, enough so that I didn't let him do it for more than a few seconds. And to me, the calls sound almost exactly the same; the tom one is just deeper.
The calls had the same effect every time we tried them. It was fascinated. Highly recommended cheap entertainment!
