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Strange wild turkey behavior
- baronrenfrew
- Stringy Old Chicken
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Strange wild turkey behavior
I've seen cows circled around a snapping turtle laying eggs.
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- WLLady
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Strange wild turkey behavior
I bet the lead turkey went to investigate the weird thing in the road and the rest followed and instead of leaving the lead turkey saw the rest walking in the circle and forgot what it was doing and joined in.
I once was hunting and the tom hung up on a 6 inch diameter fallen 8 foot piece of branch. He could have stepped right over it. But he treated it like an electric fence!!
Also seen a flock of turkeys nearly kill themsleves trying to get through a barbed wire square fence. They were slamming into it. One bird got over and the rest just kept running into the fence-a bunch of jakes-lots of bloodied heads before they gave up. The only thing dumber than2 turkeys is a whole flock of em!!!
I once was hunting and the tom hung up on a 6 inch diameter fallen 8 foot piece of branch. He could have stepped right over it. But he treated it like an electric fence!!
Also seen a flock of turkeys nearly kill themsleves trying to get through a barbed wire square fence. They were slamming into it. One bird got over and the rest just kept running into the fence-a bunch of jakes-lots of bloodied heads before they gave up. The only thing dumber than2 turkeys is a whole flock of em!!!
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Strange wild turkey behavior
I've seen my turkeys circle a snake before, reminded me of watching meerkat manor! Luckily they were just faced with a garter snake not a cobra!
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Retired dairy shepherd and cheesemaker and former keeper of a menagerie of chickens and Pencilled Turkeys, now owned by three cats and a border collie x Australian shepherd who keeps me fit and on my toes!
- windwalkingwolf
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Strange wild turkey behavior
They are attracted to the blood, same as a chicken would be, but a chicken will dive in and make sure the job is done, and turkeys want to make sure it's dead first. If the cat twitches, that circle would be broken pretty quick
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