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Post by esshup on Dec 31, 2015 10:47:04 GMT -5
I was at a clients property yesterday and saw a flock of turkeys a few hundred yards away. I counted 41 birds, then I broke out the binoculars. Every one of those birds was either a tom or a jake. I usually only see 3-5 toms together at once during the rest of the year.
Where did they all come from? Do turkeys normally form bachelor groups like this during the winter like bucks do during the summer?
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Post by featherduster on Dec 31, 2015 11:22:31 GMT -5
esshup asked
Where did they all come from?
ANSWER: eggs
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Post by schall53 on Dec 31, 2015 11:28:41 GMT -5
I was at a clients property yesterday and saw a flock of turkeys a few hundred yards away. I counted 41 birds, then I broke out the binoculars. Every one of those birds was either a tom or a jake. I usually only see 3-5 toms together at once during the rest of the year. Where did they all come from? Do turkeys normally form bachelor groups like this during the winter like bucks do during the summer? I have 2 groups on the farm. One has 16 hens in it, the other has 9 Toms and Jakes. Been that way all fall. |
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Post by ukwil on Dec 31, 2015 11:37:58 GMT -5
We seen a flock on 11/29 that was over 30 birds and it was all Tom's or jakes.
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Post by nfalls116 on Dec 31, 2015 11:45:38 GMT -5
Sounds like a flock near me....
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Post by stevein on Dec 31, 2015 12:29:30 GMT -5
Lovett Williams wrote in Turkey and Turkey Hunting that turkeys usually grouped by sex and status. Hens with poults, hens without poults and gobblers and jakes. I have seen large mixed flocks but usually later in the winter. Probably getting together before spring. They must come from miles around to form some of these flocks.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Dec 31, 2015 13:27:02 GMT -5
I have one tom, so I still need to borrow one hen.
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Post by nfalls116 on Dec 31, 2015 18:22:20 GMT -5
I have one tom, so I still need to borrow one hen. why stop at one? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2015 19:06:49 GMT -5
esshup asked Where did they all come from? ANSWER: eggs When a boy turkey and a girl turkey love each other very much...  |
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Post by esshup on Dec 31, 2015 20:28:17 GMT -5
esshup asked Where did they all come from? ANSWER: eggs All rightie then, next question, what came first? |
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Post by nfalls116 on Dec 31, 2015 20:39:00 GMT -5
esshup asked Where did they all come from? ANSWER: eggs When a boy turkey and a girl turkey love each other very much... but what if they eat some ferminted fruit and then think they like each other alot? Same result? |
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Jan 1, 2016 14:03:39 GMT -5
I saw over 60 turkeys on my drive home from hunting this past weekend. One group had four toms strutting and hens chasing each other around the field. There were over twenty in that one group.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Jan 1, 2016 14:17:29 GMT -5
I saw over 60 turkeys on my drive home from hunting this past weekend. One group had four toms strutting and hens chasing each other around the field. There were over twenty in that one group. If you could run out there and catch a couple, I have a good home for them. I promise to feed them, admire their beauty and shoot one in 15 months. |
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Post by nfalls116 on Jan 1, 2016 14:37:36 GMT -5
I saw over 60 turkeys on my drive home from hunting this past weekend. One group had four toms strutting and hens chasing each other around the field. There were over twenty in that one group. If you could run out there and catch a couple, I have a good home for them. I promise to feed them, admire their beauty and shoot one in 15 months. I know where a bunch are I'm sure the land owner won't care if you go catch a few of them in fact I'm sure he'd enjoy letting you show him how to do it |
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Jan 1, 2016 15:51:49 GMT -5
If you could run out there and catch a couple, I have a good home for them. I promise to feed them, admire their beauty and shoot one in 15 months. I know where a bunch are I'm sure the land owner won't care if you go catch a few of them in fact I'm sure he'd enjoy letting you show him how to do it I'm not going to bite. |
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Post by esshup on Jan 2, 2016 20:22:55 GMT -5
Joh, the dang birds know what the season dates are. I could walk within about 40 yds of them and they didn't care, closer than that and they'd walk away. If I backed off, they stopped walking and just stood there.
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Post by bullseye69 on Jan 7, 2016 23:44:08 GMT -5
When a boy turkey and a girl turkey love each other very much... but what if they eat some fermented fruit and then think they like each other alot? Same result? Sodomy!  |
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Post by bullseye69 on Jan 7, 2016 23:45:24 GMT -5
Joh, the dang birds know what the season dates are. I could walk within about 40 yds of them and they didn't care, closer than that and they'd walk away. If I backed off, they stopped walking and just stood there. They have calendars with the dates for hunting on it. Didn't you know! |
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Post by nfalls116 on Jan 7, 2016 23:49:10 GMT -5
but what if they eat some fermented fruit and then think they like each other alot? Same result? Sodomy!  that's why turkeys don't shoot back they are all felons? |
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Post by Land Between the Lakes on Jan 8, 2016 16:30:54 GMT -5
I've seen up to 100 turkeys in a single field before in Kentucky. I've seen 50 to 60 in one field before at the place I can hunt in southern Indiana.
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that's why turkeys don't shoot back they are all felons?