Posted on 05/09/2018 10:34:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Vicki Wood was driving on Highway 60 near the James River, back to Springfield from neighboring Seymour, with her son Dustin Wood in the back seat and his girlfriend Pam Standfield in the front passenger seat, when a 20-pound turkey headed for their car, the Springfield News-Leader reported.
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The two women were rushed to a nearby hospital, where they were treated for cuts from flying glass, the paper reported. Standfield was knocked out after being hit by the turkey.
"After it hit us, I was spitting glass," Vicki Wood said. "We're very lucky that Pam was looking down for her phone when it hit. ... It came in right where her head was. If she had been looking up, it could have been a lot worse. It was a blessing she had her head down."
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Pretty much everywhere there are turkeys it is breeding time.
I use my tractor to mow other peoples pasture land, 100s of acres per job. You really have to watch for the turkey nests right now so that you can give them a wide birth. Mow to close and hen will leave the nest not to return. If I happen to run over one, I will gather the eggs and take to incubator at house and try to finish hatching them. The young are hard to raise once hatched. Really susceptible to lung sicknesses (pneumonia). But I love turning them loose into my own pasture once they are jake size
They absolutely get much bigger, especially when they cross back to the domestics and a population of wild/ferals spend that season on a good bed of acorns.
Same thing almost happened to me, on I-40W east of Knoxville. A turkey came flying across the road & smashed into a semitrailer in front of me. Next thing I knew it came at my minivan & crashed into my driver door window. I still remember its wild eyes as it attacked, no joke. Don’t know what it was fleeing from.
A Harley Riding-Buddy of mine hit a turkey in Wilderness State Park near Mackinaw City about twenty five years ago. He was doing about fifty miles per hour when the bird flew out of the ditch directly in front of him. Well, when he hit it, the turkey exploded into a big cloud of feathers that I rode through, wondering what the heck happened. Both of us were riding Fat Boys and we pulled over. His Headlamp lens was broken and feathers were stuck in the cooling fins of his engine. His Headlamp nacelle was also dented. I kept a few feathers as a souvenir, and we rode straight to the Keyhole Bar to unwind and discuss our adventure and luck. That was the closest I ever came to hitting anything in over twenty years of riding.
RATS!!! You beat me to it! Good work, though. It was the first thing I thought of.
They’re like pigeons in my neighborhood.
Title deserves a bourbon ping.
Was a 101 or an 80?
“Store Bird 3 Minuets“
Store turkeys can dance?
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They’re all over the western burbs of Chicago in DuPage County.
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Lots of turkeys in our woods here in west Michigan. We also have lots of oak trees and turkeys love acorns. This year we have had a lone male - the bachelor. No mate yet. The last couple of weeks we have had him frequently in our yard. Sometimes the turkeys come up at night and eat the bird seed on the ground. We know because they leave their droppings. Did you know there is a difference visually in female vs. male turkey poop? Proves you are never too old to learn and it’s amazing what you can find on the internet.
Do wild turkeys drink Jim Beam?
Upon further investigation, it was learned that the turkey was dropped from a helicopter as part of a promotion by a local radio station.
Will your Great Pyrenees cross attack and/or eat them?
I ask because I too have a Great Pyrenees cross and he never met a prey animal he didn’t instantly seek to protect!
He loves our cats, who hate him. When the baby is outside he just hangs out by her all day, adoring her.
My in laws used to own a pizza place in Salado.
I think it was called Slice of Salado. I like the area, but it is getting full of Austin types.
Excellent.
(Thought for sure that reference would be in the first three or so posts.)
He doesn’t attack them he just chases them off. His territory is HIS territory. He’s OK with the local deer walking through. He’s going to be two in September so maybe he’ll settle down a bit. He’s 3/4 Great Pyrenees, 1/8 Anatolian Shepherd, and 1/8 St. Bernard. We did a genetic test on him because we were told that he was 3/4 GP and 1/4 Anatolian. He has huge droopy jowls that are not typical for those breeds. After we got the test results back we knew where those goober jowls came from.
Try using a dry incubator...which can be just a plywood box with a heat lamp.
The humidity in the professional incubators contributes to pneumonia in my chickens so I only use it to hatch the chicks. Once they’re hatched and their feathers fluff out then it’s off to the box!
Bless you, too, for being so kind to the turkeys!
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