Posted on 10/24/2017 1:58:50 PM PDT by Kaslin
“Damn...I really miss that show.”
Best show ever.
I’ve seen dozens in tall treetops along the CT coast. They didn’t climb there...
You can thank the perpetual copyright for why it's no longer on the air. They couldn't secure syndication rights for the music played in the show. Thanks Disney!
Wild turkeys can fly a bit. Those raised in captivity? Not so much.
American WILD turkeys can fly.
I was driving down a steep grade a wooded section of the Blue Ridge Parkway when a feathered bowling ball (wild turkey) flew out of the trees on the upslope side, across the road in front of me, and into the thin air above the tree tops on the downslope side of the parkway. Being from the upper mid-west I had never seen a wild turkey before that.
The Mexican birds that we eat at Thanksgiving can’t fly. They are engineered to stand around and eat.
Was he dropping the fake Mexican turkeys or genuine American Wild turkeys?
They can’t fly very far. From a tree to the ground, from the ground to a tree. That’s about it. You’re fortunate to have been on the downslope otherwise that feathered bowling ball would have been through your windshield. They’re all over the place now, here in NC. Not even particularly afraid of people, out and about in yards and such like overgrown guinea hens or something.
I don’t really see the “fun” in this. The bird I saw in the YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3MbCNodleI
...didn’t ever stabilize and “fly.” I almost had to have been killed on impact, and broken a lot of bones, too.
This is very weird, but it is the state that gave us The Clintons.
Maybe you should buy stock in Bandaids then, to apply to your knuckles while you're crawling around with your buddies. Don't label me---virtue, schmirtue. Cruel is cruel, and it is forbidden to be cruel to animals.
I have no objection to killing the turkeys in order to eat them, provided it is done in as humane and pain-free way as possible--- not by stupid stunts, with the associated terror of falling.
Sounds like a town best avodied by all.
The operative term is LOW. And you're talking about WILD turkeys, who do have a limited ability to fly. Domestic turkeys are bred to put meat on their breasts and have no opportunity to build up flight muscles. They can barely walk with the way they've been bred, let alone fly. So you can't compare apples to oranges.
Were they wild turkeys, as I strongly suspect? Then you can't compare them to heavy domestic turkeys, which cannot fly or can barely fly due to their weight. Your "proof" is not any proof at all that this airplane practice is not cruel.
It did flap its wings a lot as it was gliding down. A desperate motion I perhaps mistook that for flying.
Hopefully wild turkey are not as nasty as wild geese. (Droppings all over the place, very confrontational.)
It’s a classic — Well worth doing a YouTube search for it.
Turkeys are not aggressive like geese generally speaking other than Toms in mating season. But, it’s a good idea to leave them alone, don’t go accosting them, they’re not afraid of you unless you have a weapon of some sort. Try chasing them off, they’ll turn around and chase you. A good-sized Tom can lay a hurting on you, too.
Were they wild turkeys or were they turkey vultures?
Almost like mobile lawn ornaments. Tolerable if the droppings are not too bad. Less noisy than Peafowl too, I imagine.
Were they wild turkeys, as I strongly suspect? Then you can’t compare them to heavy domestic turkeys, which cannot fly or can barely fly due to their weight. Your “proof” is not any proof at all that this airplane practice is not cruel.
I did not weigh in on cruelty.
They don’t drop dog-sized turds like a Canada Goose but I doubt cultivating a large flock of wild turkey would lead to a yard that is very neat. They tend to wander, showing up in a given yard almost on a timetable. They can be aggressive during mating season, relatively innocuous otherwise but challenging a tom trying to run him off will lead to him fanning out and charging back at you, mating season or not.
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