[ta6point6]

My wife took this picture this morning. No additives or preservatives lol

[indymanjoe]

Free ranging as well!

[GT182]

Sweet! Wild turkey is hands down better than that bird from the grocery store. The taste and color of the meat is totally different.

[Shiny]

Very cool! We lived in SW Ft Collins for 10 yrs and I never saw wild turkeys there. I had no idea they lived nearby. My neighbor here had a couple domestic turkeys in his chicken coop all summer. The loud gobbling noise was entertaining all summer. I suspect it will be a little quieter now...

[Stuart]

The darn things have almost become pests in Minneapolis. They wander around in the middle of the city, and seem to like walking out in the middle of the street to hold up traffic. A few years ago, a wild turkey got in a big fight with his reflection in the front door of my office building.

[1965gp]

Interesting that you say they taste different? Kinda like farm raised vs wild salmon I guess?

[Half-Inch Stud]

....we had a wild male peacock show up on our property about 5-years ago

[David Jones]

The 19 pound Butterball that my smoker worked on for 9 hours the other day was pretty darn good. The easy open plastic container made it pretty easy.

[GT182]

I could use one. My stepdaughter cooked the 21 pounder we bought. Being lazy they left it out on the counter for close to 24 hours after we all ate a bit over half of it. Leaving it out that long ruined what was left of it, and it went into the trash.

To top it off they asked if they could have what little of it we took home. It wasn't much as they cried about what we did take home. er still.

[Firedup6975]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I wanna pet em I have a few here too they come and eat the seed that falls from my bird feeders. They scratch the ground with their feet funny critters.

[Greg Reid]

Originally Posted by GT182

Wild turkey is hands down better than that bird from the grocery store. The taste and color of the meat is totally different.

Gives you a headache the next morning though!



We have quite a few around my area but there are so many woods they don't have a hard time staying out of site most of the time. Might see them crossing the road occasionally. Kind of like the Coyotes and Red Foxes. Had a pair that would roost on my shed roof for a while. They are very smart compared to the domestics.

I saw an episode of NOVA I believe it was and a zoologist came into possession of a clutch of wild turkey eggs. Something he'd been wanting to find for a long time. He raised them and documented every aspect of their progress and everything he could observe. He was amazed that they did not have to be taught anything. All of their survival knowledge seemed to be ingrained from birth. They even had different sounds for different species of snakes. Calling out a poisonous snake alerted the entire brood of danger but any snake was avoided of course.. They would fixate and be extremely cautious about things like a tree stump where previously there had been a tree....a branch lying across the trail Anything out of the ordinary was thoroughly examined by the entire brood until they were satisfied there was no danger. Eventually, they all returned to the wild on their own.
Anyone that's ever hunted them could tell you that though.