Wild hen showed up this afternoon

[Hatch me if you can]

After I got home from work today I noticed an extra turkey eating and moving with my flock of free range turkeys. We have wild turkeys about 5-6 miles down the road we see almost every day but we don't see many up at our elevation. She even flew up and roosted with them once it got dark. My only concern would be once she decides to move on will she take some of my flock? Or as a lone hen will she just stay here and melt into the flock? If she is here tomorrow I will take some pictures and post them. Anyone have any experience with this?

 

[R2elk]

After I got home from work today I noticed an extra turkey eating and moving with my flock of free range turkeys. We have wild turkeys about 5-6 miles down the road we see almost every day but we don't see many up at our elevation. She even flew up and roosted with them once it got dark. My only concern would be once she decides to move on will she take some of my flock? Or as a lone hen will she just stay here and melt into the flock? If she is here tomorrow I will take some pictures and post them. Anyone have any experience with this?

I had a wild turkey hen come in for conjugal visits every spring for seven years in a row. She would then make a nest down in my field, lay her eggs and hatch them out. After hatching she would leave and then return to repeat the process every year. She never convinced any of my turkeys to leave with her but that does not mean that your visitor can't convince some of your turkeys to follow her off.

 

[Hatch me if you can]

Here she is..

 

[peacockfarmer]

After I got home from work today I noticed an extra turkey eating and moving with my flock of free range turkeys. We have wild turkeys about 5-6 miles down the road we see almost every day but we don't see many up at our elevation. She even flew up and roosted with them once it got dark. My only concern would be once she decides to move on will she take some of my flock? Or as a lone hen will she just stay here and melt into the flock? If she is here tomorrow I will take some pictures and post them. Anyone have any experience with this?

A year ago, a wild hen came to us, starving, sick and alone. She thought my barn floor sweepings was the best food she had eaten in a month. She would sleep in the trees and spend all day with my turkeys. After a month, she spent the night in the barn for the first time and has every night since then for a year. Last week, a year later, a new wild hen came to visit. My wild hen was so much bigger in the body then this new young wild hen and the old wild hen pushed her around and made her feel unwelcome, so after one day, she left.