Front Yard Friends

[zimmjeff]

they will also leave you with a yard full of crap.

[Darrell Ward]

When is turkey season?

Varies by state. In North Carolina, season is April 14 to May 12, limit 2 per season, with huge fines, and/or jail time for violations.

[TURQ64]

Around here, the transplant idea didn't work well. 30 years ago, they traded Walleyes for Rio Grandes and Merriman's, but instead of the woods, they took to all the farmsteads where there was easy pickings..They'll stroll into the woods to raise a clutch, then it's back to the farmyard..So, you get to know a farmer, he let's his dog out, it tree's the turkeys, and then it's a proverbial 'turkey shoot'!..I get them in 1 1/2 Vixtors when Mink trapping. They wade in the skinny spots in creeks, and that's where I set for Mink..(used to, cain't no mo')

[jimmyjoe]

Turkey season just started here in Ohio, getting ready for Thanksgiving around here before you can buy them. Jim

[Inland Empire Discus]

Here are some pics of them running then one pic of them eating the reward for finishing the race.

[Second Hand Pat]

Actually, more do to earlier state stocking programs We raised, and released them for the state in the past...We quit raising them due to how threatening they were to visiting humans....They'll jump 4 feet up while using their spurs...Best put in a deep fryer............

Gary, didn't know you were into turkey wrangling. So they have spurs, never knew that. Both sexes?? Oh, I like mine grilled.

[Second Hand Pat]

Honey...quick...bring me my shotgun!

Rodrigo

I have my own shotgun

and turkey season here in fla is in the spring for gobblers. No sure about other times.

[Second Hand Pat]

Around here, the transplant idea didn't work well. 30 years ago, they traded Walleyes for Rio Grandes and Merriman's, but instead of the woods, they took to all the farmsteads where there was easy pickings..They'll stroll into the woods to raise a clutch, then it's back to the farmyard..So, you get to know a farmer, he let's his dog out, it tree's the turkeys, and then it's a proverbial 'turkey shoot'!..I get them in 1 1/2 Vixtors when Mink trapping. They wade in the skinny spots in creeks, and that's where I set for Mink..(used to, cain't no mo')

So wild turkeys wasn't used for reintroduction?

[Second Hand Pat]

Thanks Bill, that is pretty cool.

[discuspaul]

When I was much younger I used to hunt Pheasant, Quail, Grouse, and Prairie Chicken in the fields & woods of Central Canada. (As well as ducks and geese.) Always wanted to find/shoot and roast a wild turkey though, but never saw one in the wild, although it was said there actually were some in certain areas.
Almost non-existant in Canada these days.

Lucky, Pat, to have those beautiful wild birds in your yard - I'm envious.

When I lived in the Okanagan Valley of B.C. years ago, we had anywhere up to 50 or 60 California Bobwhite Quail strolling through our yard on a daily basis pretty much year-round - this in the middle of a city of 30,000people. It was such a sight to behold ! No hunting season whatsoever on Bobwhites at that time - and most people fed them well - they became quite tame - our residential area at the time was quite well treed at the rear, and no backyard fencing was allowed.

[Second Hand Pat]

Yes Paul, I love having these guys around. The acorns are falling and think they maybe eating them. I also have bobwhite quail but do not see them too often. Can always call the males up to the house in the spring when they are looking for mates.

I also have deer, fox, bobcats every now and again, hawks, owls, sandhill cranes, coons and of course crows. Because I live in a sugar sand hill I have a resident colony of gopher tortoise.

This morning I was coming back from the feed store and the turkeys in the driveway. I liberally was herding them with the car. They were running the fence line and would not veer off so slowed until the silly things cleared the driveway.