Tips to stop wild turkeys from terrorizing you

Boston Globe ^ | Wed November 19, 2008 | Beth Daley

[posterchild]

The real danger facing us, or a good source of protein?

[SumProVita]

This article is ridiculously funny...(did I say silly?).

Yep

[posterchild]

Some of the comments on the site are quite good also.

[Kirkwood]

[Ancient Drive]

this is all turkey I say!

[Doogle]

I wonder if they fall for the old pencil line drawn on a piece of paper trick like chickens do? Anyone Know?

[mad_as_he$$]

Call Mad Extermination Squad. We fix turkey problems (along with most other critters).

[posterchild]

What is the line drawn on a piece of paper trick?

[Aliska]

I think we have a few here in rural areas. A few would be welcome in my yard, but maybe I’d get more than I bargained for. I’d love to watch and photograph some. We are not Massachusetts, and there would be so much squawking, that they would do something to get rid of them like they do our deer.

[AFreeBird]

Here's a tip: Don't drink it.

[AFreeBird]

LOL, dang, and we even grabbed the same picture.

[Viking2002]

Ah. You, sir, have correctly identified my holiday spirit of choice.

You don't win a damned thing, but you guessed correctly.

[Diogenesis]

A Massachusetts turkey on its way to Court for a license.

[uglybiker]

Best tip:

Do whatever it takes to make 'em look like this!

Then, before the PITA, er...PETA crowd finds out, you must eat the evidence.

[SLB]

My bet is that some evening I could grab one, kill it, get it to the basement, plucked and cleaned in less than 15 minutes. The next day - turkey and all the trimmings! I have plucked a few gobblers and the only feathers that gave me trouble were the flight feathers in the wings. For this one I would simply lop the wings off. Stuff all the evidence in a black plastic bag and deposit it in a dumpster.

[posterchild]

I spent a weekend a while ago in my state’s bow hunting class. If I still lived in MA I could get by with just a pair of gloves and an axe.

[AuntB]

“The real danger facing us, or a good source of protein?”

Well, I can tell you the flock of wild turkeys that visit me will be ‘protein’ if I get hungry.

We really enjoy them, but they have miles of natural habitat to keep them company. I did enjoy watching them chase the cat.

[Clemenza]

I see wild turkeys from time to time along the old rail trail (actually the old trolley line between Princeton and Trenton). Never been attacked, and besides if you charge them, they usually fly away. Yes, wild turkeys CAN fly.

[enraged]

80 proof? Wimps, step up to 101!

[Yardstick]

What is the line drawn on a piece of paper trick?

It seems like I've heard you can hypnotize them or something with a line on a piece of paper, but maybe that's some other trick.