June 27 7:30 AM. Looked out the window this moring to see 3 gobblers in full strut. Man why the heck are they doing it this late? Young hen just coming in or something? Never seen them strut this late before.
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I've seen them in strut here in Nebraska even in late winter on nice sunny days.
They are in the mood 365 days a year, they just don't know that the hens aren't :D
Hmmmmm..... "I STRUTT, therefore, I AM"
still in strut over on my friends farm. too bad i cant hunt them. heck, i hear them gobbling in merrian springs in october and november all the time.
They must be back from vacation Mickey. LOL
Around here they turned back on late. I killed one on 5/31 that was smokin hot. I then heard 2 more behind the house a week later. Funny how they can be so smart and so dumb at the same time.
looks like the middle one got half his tail blown off by a shotgun!
haven't turned their clocks back yet???
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Maybe two-year olds that just don't want to give up yet.
Global warming. :D
it's George Bush's fault :bigsmyl: :bigsmyl:
Brent...the turks have started coming back around, but haven't seen any poults yet.
They have been doing it in theses parts also.
I had a hen cross the road in front of me with poults two weeks ago and the best part , She had a beard :0)
They actually will strut and gobble all year round for displays of dominance, which is more than likely what is going on in your photo. They just do it much, much more in the spring because dominance plays such a major role in their once a year mating ritual. I hear them gobble a lot during deer season and have even arrowed one in full strut in November. Great picture! :clapper:
They will strut and gobble all year long but I've recently read that they will keep trying to hatch some polts ,,say the nest was detroyed buy a critter they will try again..JB
At first I thought I saw flag on Mickeys putting green but looked closer and saw it was a bird house. Didn't think he would allow them on the green. Are you sure you don't have a turkey farm? :bigsmyl:
I have heard that turkys will have more then one clutch a year. It could have something to do with that perhaps?
Well I know one of the turkeys was excited.The one in the front on this pic may go blind :bigsmyl:
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and some of the hens have been coming and feeding under the bird feeder out front, but no poults with them
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Mickey,
Believe it or not I have seen them strut in Nov when I used to live in WV. Strange for sure.
Danny
Yesterday was my birthday Mickey, they were giving me a gift( indirectly.. ;) )
BD
Theres been two enormous gobblers hanging around the neighbor ranches pond in the mornings. They explode into full strut as I pass in my truck in the mornings. Good stuff! GIANT GOBBLERS! These have coke bottle beards on them. Don't know where they were hiding during season.
I was on a bull dozer last week clearing trees off a property. I looked up and thought to myself "where in the world are all these guinea's coming from"? There was around 12 guinea foul flying up and running in circles about 50 yards in front of my dozer and we were miles from any farm houses. Finally a really big guinea that looked a lot like a hen turkey appeared and I realized what I was looking at were turkey polts. Man was I releaved! I wasn't quite sure how I was gonna catch that giant MaMa guinea to show all my friends. :knothead:
I knew I would take a woopin. Worse woopin I ever took was from a Peacock and this MaMa guinea was way bigger. :bigsmyl:
Dang Curtis, throw the camera on the seat of the truck and get some pics of those bad boys
I was sitting in a deer blind the first weekend of January last year and had a flock of 12 gobblers come in to a feeder and 5 or 6 of them went into full strut.
Camera on the dozer Mick???? It's all I can do to keep my teeth from falling out with all that slamming and banging. They forgot to put any suspension under that d-9. Like riding a concrete girder across a really rough surface. Maybe I'll see them when I'm not on that torture machine and I can get a pic. CK
Mickey, hope this time next year i will be taking pics of birds and deer out my back window....
QuoteOriginally posted by Littlefeather:
Theres been two enormous gobblers hanging around the neighbor ranches pond in the mornings. They explode into full strut as I pass in my truck in the mornings. Good stuff! GIANT GOBBLERS! These have coke bottle beards on them. Don't know where they were hiding during season.
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No man, the giant gobblers from your truck.
Hope so too Paleface...are ya moving?
Had two jakes step out right in front of my cabin door (U.P. MI) this past weekend. The second was all puffed up and upset at something. I was wondering what until he walked up to my truck and started pecking at my chrome bumper. He stayed for several minutes looking intently at the bumper (and himself) at about 6" apart.
Funny
ChuckC
A couple years ago during early bow season (september), I saw a hen with about 6 poults while driving in to go hunting. They might have been 10 days olds as they could barely fly. Strange, but true...BTW, I live in southern Ky.