"Every Turkey dies, but not every Turkey truly lives!"
Posted on 08/10/2023 6:59:45 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Blocking traffic, attacking the mailman, even chasing little kids headed to the park -- a flock of turkeys is getting a bad rap in a city neighborhood. KDKA-TV's Meghan Schiller has more from the neighborhood.
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Just hunt them and have a big bbq.
Amish turkeys.
A full grown male turkey is not a creature you want to mess around with....................
Nor is a full grown hungry man with a shotgun .
Not as bad as A Flock of Seagulls
It’s in a park. “No Hunting” sign clearly posted........
Plenty of good fly-tying material.
In fact, turkeys can be just as vicious as geese and swans, from what I hear.
"Every Turkey dies, but not every Turkey truly lives!"
A classmate of mine in Jr High was attacked by a Swan and it broke his forearm. Those wings are powerful.
Night of the Turkeys!!!
How about trapping and relocating??(To my oven)
Yes. Turkeys are.
From WIKI:
Human conflicts with wild turkeys
Turkeys have been known to be aggressive toward humans and pets in residential areas.[31] Wild turkeys have a social structure and pecking order and habituated turkeys may respond to humans and animals as they do other turkeys. Habituated turkeys may attempt to dominate or attack people that the birds view as subordinates.[32]
In 2017, the town of Brookline, Massachusetts, recommended a controversial approach when confronted with wild turkeys. Besides taking a step forward to intimidate the birds, officials also suggested “making noise (clanging pots or other objects together); popping open an umbrella; shouting and waving your arms; squirting them with a hose; allowing your leashed dog to bark at them; and forcefully fending them off with a broom”.[33] This advice was quickly rescinded and replaced with a caution that “being aggressive toward wild turkeys is not recommended by State wildlife officials.”[34]
My dad’s solution was a Remington Model 1100, 30” full choke barrel and a load of high brass, copper plated #6 shot. He used this setup for headshots since it preserved the meat.
I’ve still got one of his old turkey callers here somewhere. Irritates the wife and cat when I use it in the house, which is enough reason to dig it out.
The former will bite and try to beat you with their wings. A tom turkey will try to spur you, and their spurs may be pretty filthy.
Round them up and give them a Chilean helicopter ride.
Staten Island, NY has them too!!!
I happened upon a turf war between turkeys and Canadian geese once. They turkeys won.
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