By Terry Knight tknight sbcglobal. This year our hearts go out to the thousands of people who lost their homes during the recent wildfires. For many of them, the holiday will be spent in a shelter, and in some cases little more than a tent.
Restoration of the wild turkey in South Carolina is one of the Palmetto State's most noteworthy conservation success stories.
Limited by the early s to small pockets of birds in the Lowcountry's Francis Marion National Forest and along the Savannah River swamps, the wild turkey is now widespread throughout South Carolina and a spring hunting season is held in all of the state's 46 counties there is no fall season.
Wild turkey restoration was made possible through the efforts of the SCDNR, the National Wild Turkey Federation, the forest products industry, private landowners, and South Carolina sportsmen and sportswomen.
State law prohibits the release of pen-raised turkeys due to the possibility of introducing disease and the danger of contaminating the wild turkey gene pool. But going back to the lack of "wood smarts" of their wild cousins, domestic turkeys generally fall prey to a host of hungry predators such as bobcats, foxes or coyotes before getting a chance to breed with native birds. Thank you for reading this post and God Bless you.
Trusting them to someone else is a very difficult thing for me to do. Sending you prayers my friend. I have 10 chicken and six turkeys all 16 are about a week old. My turkeys keep pecking at my chickens when they are laying down. Is this behavior ok for this to let all 16 birds stay or should I split them up right now I have them living in my living room because it is cold outside what should I do.
The one turkey seems to be the bully to the chickens when they are trying to sleep any help would be greatly appreciated thanks. In reply to I have 10 chicken and six… by Jack. I have 2 heritage white hens that are now a year old with 6 chickens and all are happy pets on our ranch. They free range during the day and locked up in 10x10 coop at night. The turkeys have been great friends and laid eggs every day or two the past few weeks.
They started chesting up and fighting with each other today for the first time. Any suggestions to get them to knock it off? We were gifted a 4 year old turkey hen. She lays eggs about 4 to 5 times per week. After having her for about 3 months it's now mid spring and she is suddenly nesting and refuses to move off of her nest. She will barely eat. Worse, her last 2 eggs she has either stepped on and broken, or put a hole in with her beak.
I know that hens often nest for as long as 28 days. Is there anything else that I might need to be doing for her? She is a love and gets treats at night lettuce, fruits or veggies and a heatlhy diet each morning with plenty of protein game feed and cat food-her previous owners only fed her cat food.
Her water is freshened twice daily. She has a large pen and plenty of roosting poles in her house as well as a run. We also have chickens but they are in another hen house. Is she lonely, or do I just let this run its course? I'm sorry, I know nothing about turkeys and don't want anything to happen to her.
In reply to We were gifted a 4 year old… by Linda. Shes gone broody,as far as stepping on the eggs I'm sure it's the giant feet. The holes from the beaker I'm not sure about. I'd let her have a few days and see if she has some eggs that aren't broken or cracked and let her do her thing.
I should have asked first,do you have a tom? If not then ignore my advice and ask someone how to break her broody hormonal spree. Or,I gave mygirls some hen eggs that I knew were fertile. She now is sporting 2 tiny chicks and you'd think she won the lottery. Shes a very proud mom! Hello I have been raising a pair of turkeys and this have been a great experience with their personalities. Daisy use to nip me any chance she could cause she was jealous of me around my husband daddy's girl and Louie would puff up and dance when we sang to him.
He loved attention. They use to watch TV cartoons when they were younger. They also were babysat per say by our great Pyrenees dog Aaron he just love them to death would sit by them and keep an eye on them until now for Aaron is sick of them and his feelings are hurt I believe because now that they are mating Luigi and Daisy Lily is trying to pick fights with him all the time he fights with him but doesn't hurt him.
Easy prey and not-so-easy prey. The wild turkey survives and even thrives in a world of predators. The domestic turkey has lost its instinct for and abilities at survival in the wild, and is easy prey for predators.
Noisy flocks. Wild turkeys, while known for their gobbles, cackles, putts and purrs, during most of their lives are much quieter than the constantly clucking domestic turkey. A wild turkey as consistently noisy as a domestic turkey would not survive for very long. Black and white. Although domestic turkeys can be bred to closely resemble wild turkeys, domestics normally are bred white to avoid darker skin coloration associated with non-white feathers.
Wild turkeys rely on their dark brown and black plumage as camouflage. Stealthy birds. Domestic turkeys exhibit no fear of humans. Much more wary and stealthy, wild turkeys are considered one of the most difficult of game animals to successfully hunt consistently.
They don't miss much. Wild turkeys have some of the most acute eyesight of any bird species.
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