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I'm not saying full speed
I'm saying ten miles an hour gives them a chance as well as impetus (and if they win their darwin award they won't be energetic enough in their celebration to make your coolant fall out)
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Our turkey are real skittish around here, taking off at the slightest possible threat. A flock will come through here on occasion and they never even stop moving, just rolling through hitting every bug they see.
 
WaterH said:
About two weeks ago all the eggs hatched. They hatched on a day that we had a horrible storm that rained and hailed. After the storm I saw the nest with all the broken eggs. I saw the female up by some trees with one baby turkey. I figured the rest must be in the bushes there. Later I told my wife and she went looking. She found the one and it was sickly. she took it and put it in her incubator, but it died. We never saw the rest.

Was a real downer. Still have the adults, so maybe next time.
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That's fucking horrible.
You should have kept it to yourself.
 
So the male turkey is walking around all fluffed up. He’s scrapping his lower feathers on the cement when he walks. He also makes this “thunk” noise. Does that mean he’s trying to breed?

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Yes.
He's horny. Might just tag that chicken.
I know when we had ducks they were the rapiest. They'd run a train on a hen. Not sure if turkeys are also into cross-species action or not.
 
WaterH said:
So the male turkey is walking around all fluffed up. He’s scrapping his lower feathers on the cement when he walks. He also makes this “thunk” noise. Does that mean he’s trying to breed?

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Yes, it is spring mating season and he is trying to impress the ladies.
 
Update,

We still have the two turkeys. Have gotten some eggs, but no baby turkeys.

Today a new entrance to the family.

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No mate, so I don’t know if he will stay.

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Would I expect it to be wild? Or is it somebody’s pet that got away? Like the turkeys, it doesn’t seem that scared of us. Will it stay with out a mate?
 
What is the point of having a peacock? A bunch of dairy farms have them and it's annoying as hell to work with them around.
 
Our neighbor has a whole bunch, they run through the yard. We are kinda used to the screeching. Other than the giant turds, and one attacking the car looking at his reflection, they don’t bother anything.

We’ve counted 20+ in the yard before.


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I lived 18yrs across from 50 peacocks at that idiot campground..

Used the pellet gun to get them off the roof. Those big ass birds can fly very well.

50 of them screeching at every single car that came up the road. From sundown to sun up.

We have a few down the road now that are far enough away I can only hear them while outside.

Shocked Ste that I can do a decent peacock call. Easy to mimic after 18yrs of listening to those bastards.
 
and now for something completely different.

I watched an elephant eat a peahen at a wild animal park. Elephants need to eat constantly, and while stuck working the elephant ride, I watched the elephant grab and eat everything it could reach, even paper cups. A peahen got a bit too close, and the elephant curled up his trunk, smacked the peahen senseless, stepped on it for good measure, and then picked it up and ate it. The animal trainer with the elephant, gave him a little praise and a pat. He hated peacocks and peahens, too
 
1oddtech said:
What is the point of having a peacock? A bunch of dairy farms have them and it's annoying as hell to work with them around.
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My grandfather had a few on his farm years ago, no idea the point.
 
My guess is that they're kinda like Guinea roosters and (chicken) roosters in that they're dickheads, and keep fox and coons at bay. Roosters are real cocks sometime! :lmao:
Anyhow, male birds are really aggressive towards predators, so I'd guess that peacocks being pretty big male birds are just bigger and more aggressive?
 
NakedJeep said:
and now for something completely different.

I watched an elephant eat a peahen at a wild animal park. Elephants need to eat constantly, and while stuck working the elephant ride, I watched the elephant grab and eat everything it could reach, even paper cups. A peahen got a bit too close, and the elephant curled up his trunk, smacked the peahen senseless, stepped on it for good measure, and then picked it up and ate it. The animal trainer with the elephant, gave him a little praise and a pat. He hated peacocks and peahens, too
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There a few incidents of elephants eating humans/human flesh.

I think the first I ever read about was in an old novel about african safaris. Not sure if it was Capstick, Ruark, or???

There was one killed semi-recently after it partially destroyed a town in India (I think) that was found to have eaten all or part of a person it had killed.
 
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My wife and I decided to try our hand at the chicken thing
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My advice is 4 or five hens and one rooster. You’ll have all the eggs you need and not much work or smell. My wife went completely overboard.
 
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