What you did there............I SEE IT.........
I’m guessing turkeys would have been sitting ducks for domestication, so to speak. Not really fast or equipped with great natural defenses - just follow the maize...
What you did there............I SEE IT.........
> I’m guessing turkeys would have been sitting ducks for domestication, so to speak. Not really fast or equipped with great natural defenses
Don’t mess with a wild turkey. About 5 years ago, we were on our way out shopping when we saw 2 turkeys in the middle of the street. One appeared injured, so my wife called the SPCA, who asked us to wait there while their animal control guy came. He got there and I pointed to the turkey tracks in the 1/2 inch snow. He asked if I would help him corral the injured bird and I agreed. We followed the two birds a half block across a park to the rear parking lot of the local middle school.
At that point, two local cops stopped and asked us what we were doing, then said they’d help us.
The animal control guy came equipped with a very big net and a blanket, but it was the 2 cops that cornered the injured bird in a nook behind the school. One of the cops decided to grab the bird, whereupon the injured bird bit the cop on the side of his face drawing blood, the two cops then rolled on the ground wrestling the injured turkey to subdue it, before the SPCA guy got a blanket over it. At the end, both cops were covered in freezing mud, one had a 4-5 inch rip in his service jacket and the other was bleeding. It was all I could do to not roll on the ground laughing.
I bet that you have never been close up and personal with a wild turkey -- well, maybe in a glass.
We have them on our property and they do just fine with coyotes, dogs, cougars around. they run a lot faster than I do and when something gets too close they fly up into a tree...
Not true, wild turkeys are fast. They can’t fly like other birds. But they can fly just enough to escape a predator. I have seen them.
So why don’t we hear of Turkey Tacos today?