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You really don't have a clue do you ?
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You really don't have a clue do you ? LOL !!! We're pretty well sure, Luther. ALL of us.
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Says YoderbOy the phoney and his buddy GlockheAd that accused him of shooting two gobblers off the back porch this past spring.....and thinks everyone is lying.
Such a dynamic duo.
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Well back to turkeys. (the feathered kind) I was going down the road yesterday and had to stop and let a big group of hens and this years hatch cross. I did not get a good count, but I am guessing around 30 or so with about 4 or 5 mature hens in the bunch. Some were already across the road in in the edge of the woods so kind of hard to tell.
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Now were back on turkeys......
I thought you were teaching the two resident bAfoons how to shoot sporting clays.
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Well back to turkeys. (the feathered kind)........ Yeah. STILL no good news, here. Several days ago over on the property, saw a group of 5 good toms. No hens. Yesterday, a different group of 5 or 6 toms and 2 or 3 hens spent the whole day bugging in a low field a couple miles from here. No poults with the hens. What's odd is that my brother told me how just random guys (farmers) at the local restaurant have been remarking about how MANY little turkeys they're seeing.......... Time will tell, I guess.
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Started out of my driveway yesterday and had a group (small group) of hens and new birds at the gate to a field across from my house. There were 2 hens and maybe 6-8 new birds that were getting to be good size now. I am hoping that all the birds make it thru as we need them for sure.
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Started out of my driveway yesterday and had a group (small group) of hens and new birds at the gate to a field across from my house. There were 2 hens and maybe 6-8 new birds that were getting to be good size now. I am hoping that all the birds make it thru as we need them for sure. I'd be tickled pink to see 6 or 8 poults at this point..............
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I live an hour away from where I hunt. But we do have turkeys around the local airport and a guy that lives on the backside of the airport used to have a flock that came into his yard, with some nesting in his azaleas. I haven't seen any on his property this year. No toms, hens or poults. They all seem to be gone.
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No shortage of turkeys and polts in NE Wisconsin. Driving around, saw plenty of them.
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Have not seen "big" broods, but have seen a lot of broods. A neighbor harvested several acres of winter wheat and they were gleaning the fields. Several turkeys and broods gleaned my oat fields and after second crop hay was taken off a lot of them were in the fields feasting on grasshoppers.
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I think, as soon as it dries off, I'm going to go mow one of the grass fields at the property. Should make things about perfect for bugging within a week. Maybe that'll be a draw for hen/poult groups if they're around. I have a hard time believing........even though I'm not seeing.
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You think turkeys need help finding bugs...lol.
One afternoon my turkey dog flushed a flock of gobblers in a sage grass field on a cold blustery December day....a 13 degree high that day.
The two gobblers I killed crops were bulging.....
I'll give you one guess what exactly they were feeding on
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You think turkeys need help finding bugs...lol. No, Luther, I don't. But I do think a 7-8 acre field...........a field that I don't mow til about now so as to not destroy turkey nests and/or fawns...........would benefit the turkeys, now, by being opened up. The farther a turkey can get from a wood line to feed decreases the chances it can be sneaked up on by a cat or a coyote or dropped on by a hawk or eagle. Plus, 7-8 additional acres of grasshopper habitat can't hurt either. It ain't rocket science. But I figured I'd take the time and expend the effort to explain it to a rookie. BTW............ Welcome back !!! I've missed you.
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You think turkeys need help finding bugs...lol. No, Luther, I don't. But I do think a 7-8 acre field...........a field that I don't mow til about now so as to not destroy turkey nests and/or fawns...........would benefit the turkeys, now, by being opened up. The farther a turkey can get from a wood line to feed decreases the chances it can be sneaked up on by a cat or a coyote or dropped on by a hawk or eagle. Plus, 7-8 additional acres of grasshopper habitat can't hurt either. It ain't rocket science. But I figured I'd take the time and expend the effort to explain it to a rookie. BTW............ Welcome back !!! I've missed you. I'll give you one guess what exactly they were feeding on Again you avoid the question . Been right here Grasshoppa' So you think that turkeys (young or old) out in an open field are safer from attack from a big Hawk or Eagle ? And that by mowing you are creating grasshopper hAbitat ? Your psychiatrist dad must have drugged yOu when you when you were little.
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I'm hearing good hatch reports from all over the country....so it's not all gloom and doom.
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So you think that turkeys (young or old) out in an open field are safer from attack from a big Hawk or Eagle ?
And that by mowing you are creating grasshopper hAbitat ? Yes. And yes. Ever noticed that turkeys and geese prefer to feed in big, wide open fields ?? THEY figured it out. Much easier for predators of all types to close the distance on them undetected the closer to the wood line they get. I'm hearing good hatch reports from all over the country....so it's not all gloom and doom. That's a VERY good thing. Like I said above.............and what's puzzling.......is that a lot of local farmers are remarking about how many little turkeys they're seeing. But we aren't. Time will tell, I suppose.
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You think turkeys need help finding bugs...lol.
One afternoon my turkey dog flushed a flock of gobblers in a sage grass field on a cold blustery December day....a 13 degree high that day.
The two gobblers I killed crops were bulging.....
I'll give you one guess what exactly they were feeding on What were they feeding on?
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You think turkeys need help finding bugs...lol.
One afternoon my turkey dog flushed a flock of gobblers in a sage grass field on a cold blustery December day....a 13 degree high that day.
The two gobblers I killed crops were bulging.....
I'll give you one guess what exactly they were feeding on What were they feeding on? Snow peas.
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Must be. Around here, grasshoppers die in the fall and they only live through the winter as eggs, or nymphs where it's even warmer. By December there ain't much in the way of insect life for turkeys to feed on. Here they're eating mast and left over stuff in fields.
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