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Amazing how relentlessly aggressive wild turkeys can be: (Original Post)
tblue37
May 2020
OP
It didn't take them long to know me and to come running when I went out to feed them.
Kaleva
May 2020
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Chainfire
(17,528 posts)1. Looking at that film clip
I see two turkeys.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)2. Wild Turkeys think they're still 12 feet tall
Just an old fashioned, Jurassic attitude.
Kali
(55,007 posts)3. domestic turkeys are obnoxious too
hell most fowl/foul deserves the name a lot of the time
tblue37
(65,319 posts)4. Well, they are descended from dinosaurs. This one is Tyrannosaurus Turkey. nt
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)13. Growing up we had a rooster that was mean as hell
Nobody messed with him, including the dogs. He got into my dad's leg one day and wound up in the pot that night.
Kali
(55,007 posts)14. we had one that required carrying a baseball bat
he eventually got simmered for a few hours
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)5. Was that Don Jr.?
Sneederbunk
(14,289 posts)6. Just let the Turkey play through.
Kaleva
(36,294 posts)7. I fed a flock of 30 over the winter and none behaved like that.
tblue37
(65,319 posts)8. You probably weren't trespassing on their protected territory. nt
Kaleva
(36,294 posts)9. It didn't take them long to know me and to come running when I went out to feed them.
tblue37
(65,319 posts)10. I'm sure the feedings had a lot to do with their lack of aggressiveness toward you. nt
Kaleva
(36,294 posts)11. The big toms were aggressive to each other and to the younger males.
It was pretty interesting to be about 3 feet away from two big toms strutting their stuff and trying to intimidate each other.
area51
(11,905 posts)12. More turkey madness --
they circle a dead cat.