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Posted By: Vern1

Random turkey picture - 10/23/17 01:37 PM

Now for something slightly different...

Posted By: chrswr

Re: Random turkey picture - 10/23/17 10:10 PM

whats the pipe? is it chained to your feeder?
Posted By: Vern1

Re: Random turkey picture - 10/24/17 03:39 PM

Originally Posted By: chrswr
whats the pipe? is it chained to your feeder?


It's a Feral Crack Pipe.
5' long piece of 4" SCH40 PVC with a single 1/2" hole in pipe tethered to Tpost with welded chain to keep it from wandering off.

Once a pig finds it, they will spend hours pushing the pipe in a circle as it drops out a kernel or two every time it rotates out of the 1/2" hole.
I have 5 and 6 hour sequences on my game camera where a pig pushes it around and around and around.
Throw in a handfull of rocks bigger than the hole and fill with corn.
After the corn is emptied out, the pigs will still roll it around for quite a while with the rocks making noise.

Posted By: SnakeWrangler

Re: Random turkey picture - 10/24/17 05:45 PM

That is one crazy looking hen.....
Posted By: Vern1

Re: Random turkey picture - 10/25/17 02:15 PM

Originally Posted By: SnakeWrangler
That is one crazy looking hen.....


Yeah, the cream or white ones were pretty common around here but I am seeing them less and less.

There was an 18 wheeler load of white turkeys that turned over on highway about 6 miles from here.
It turned over in early 1970's and while they caught most of them, quite a few escaped.

I'm sure coyotes, bobcats, dogs and other predators took a bunch of them too.

Here is a shot from my front yard taken thru my patio door.

Posted By: Trophytaker3

Re: Random turkey picture - 10/25/17 04:34 PM

I'm ready to grin GOBBLE him up!
Posted By: kmon11

Re: Random turkey picture - 10/27/17 04:57 AM

that color hen is not that unusual but them reaching adult stage is more unusual. Turkeys have several color phases but the white and bronze ones have ore trouble hiding when young from predators.
Posted By: Gamblinman

Re: Random turkey picture - 10/28/17 02:50 AM

clap
Posted By: jt402

Re: Random turkey picture - 10/30/17 05:24 PM

Yes, we once had a lease on the Lampsas River east of town. We had a large population of turkey and lots of white among the birds. Rancher said that a neighbor was raising turkey and a storm wrecked his pens, allowing the domestics to escape and inter breed with the wild Rio Grande flocks. As time went by, we saw fewer and fewer evidences of white.

Jack
Posted By: redhaze

Re: Random turkey picture - 10/31/17 02:06 PM

Very cool!
Posted By: HCGedge3

Re: Random turkey picture - 11/02/17 06:44 PM

Cool
Posted By: TooLow

Re: Random turkey picture - 11/02/17 06:47 PM

nice
Posted By: uplandhunter

Re: Random turkey picture - 11/12/17 03:02 PM

that is an awesome picture
Posted By: bass101

Re: Random turkey picture - 12/02/17 10:35 AM

nice
Posted By: capnmorgan

Re: Random turkey picture - 12/28/17 03:18 PM

Cool
Posted By: GrandmasterB

Re: Random turkey picture - 12/30/17 06:27 AM

Nice pics!
Posted By: KnightlingersGunDogs

Re: Random turkey picture - 01/07/18 08:26 AM

coolpics
Posted By: nacgoat08

Re: Random turkey picture - 01/27/18 02:49 AM

I've always heard them called "gun smoked" turkeys. I shot one in Kansas several years ago with my bow.
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