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<blockquote data-quote="( deleted account )" data-source="post: 214426" data-attributes="member: 5993">I didn’t know they would eat eggs or destroy other upland.&nbsp; A long time ago I raised some incubated wild turkeys, plus a few “found”turkey eggs from travels afield.&nbsp; I kept them environmentally well protected till they were about the size of a domestic chicken, then let them go in a bigger pen. Man, we’re they STUPID!&nbsp; When it rained, they’d just stand there in the rain some with their beaks open looking up at the falling rain despite plenty of overhead cover, and either drown or get soaked and probably get pneumonia or hypothermic and die.&nbsp; Dunno if the dead ones were the bought wild turkeys eggs or the eggs&nbsp; found in the wild ones, but the mortality without mom teaching them was astounding!&nbsp; Some never seemed to even learn how to eat, though I tried all the usual tricks for bugs, grain, you name it.&nbsp; They were just STUPID without parental instruction.&nbsp;&nbsp; Was far worse than pheasants, chuckars, quail or Guinea hens, all of which did well.Yes, they sure raise hell on Ranchers hay stacks. Not what they eat, but what they tear up - hay flying everywhere.....poop all over.&nbsp; A good rancher friend maintains that you can scare them away all you want but they immediately come back. He says you HAVE to kill one or two by smacking them with a varmint bullet (i loaded a lot of 55 grain fast .243’s for him for varmints and turkeys) and then they seemed to learn and would stay away for a few weeks, then come back and needed to center of mass blow one or two up again.&nbsp; He didn’t dislike them so much once he learned how to keep them away.&nbsp; Kill one or two by exploding them in the flock with their buddies&nbsp; and the rest seem to learn from it, like elephants in Africa and maybe grizzlies in USA!&nbsp; Biologically interesting&nbsp; animal learning behavior.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="( deleted account ), post: 214426, member: 5993"] I didn’t know they would eat eggs or destroy other upland. A long time ago I raised some incubated wild turkeys, plus a few “found”turkey eggs from travels afield. I kept them environmentally well protected till they were about the size of a domestic chicken, then let them go in a bigger pen. Man, we’re they STUPID! When it rained, they’d just stand there in the rain some with their beaks open looking up at the falling rain despite plenty of overhead cover, and either drown or get soaked and probably get pneumonia or hypothermic and die. Dunno if the dead ones were the bought wild turkeys eggs or the eggs found in the wild ones, but the mortality without mom teaching them was astounding! Some never seemed to even learn how to eat, though I tried all the usual tricks for bugs, grain, you name it. They were just STUPID without parental instruction. Was far worse than pheasants, chuckars, quail or Guinea hens, all of which did well. Yes, they sure raise hell on Ranchers hay stacks. Not what they eat, but what they tear up - hay flying everywhere.....poop all over. A good rancher friend maintains that you can scare them away all you want but they immediately come back. He says you HAVE to kill one or two by smacking them with a varmint bullet (i loaded a lot of 55 grain fast .243’s for him for varmints and turkeys) and then they seemed to learn and would stay away for a few weeks, then come back and needed to center of mass blow one or two up again. He didn’t dislike them so much once he learned how to keep them away. Kill one or two by exploding them in the flock with their buddies and the rest seem to learn from it, like elephants in Africa and maybe grizzlies in USA! Biologically interesting animal learning behavior. [/QUOTE]

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