lil'turkeymama wrote: A egg found and hatched is not a wild turkey.
Exactly. 5 eggs left in the nest that imprint on mama are Wild, the five eggs removed from nest and hatched by us (imprinting on humans) are `Domestic'. Genetics are the same, but survival in the wild, for the five hatched by us, would be nada.
In the `40's, the state of Missouri attempted to reconstitute the decimated Wild Eastern population by initially buying from breeders. None of those flocks made it. They had to import adult wilds captured in other states. The current estimate of the population is just below a million.
Exactly. 5 eggs left in the nest that imprint on mama are Wild, the five eggs removed from nest and hatched by us (imprinting on humans) are `Domestic'. Genetics are the same, but survival in the wild, for the five hatched by us, would be nada.
In the `40's, the state of Missouri attempted to reconstitute the decimated Wild Eastern population by initially buying from breeders. None of those flocks made it. They had to import adult wilds captured in other states. The current estimate of the population is just below a million.
