Quite a difference between seeing a bigfoot and seeing an adult turkey kill some small grouse chicks

What Reg's? And, what does it say? I can't believe they'd publish BS just because some ignorant folk think it's so.

While baling hay I watched a hen turkey kill 13 pheasant chicks. Once hunted turkeys with a friend who shot a nice gobbler. When he dressed it out it had 4 little wood ducks in its crop. Grouse and quail became extinct here within 10 years of turkeys being introduced.

KY and TN were Confederate states, but most of the South has never had many, if any grouse. Of course the Bobwhite quail has just about disappeared. But I’ve never seen any Blue, Ruffed, or Prairie grouse in any of the 5 or 6 Southern states that I have lived in or hunted in.

They were dispelling the myth that turkeys kill quail or pheasants. It was in the WIHA book you can get.

What say you, Wannabe..? More imagination...?

So what y’all are saying is no other factors are in play, it’s all the turkeys feasting on grouse, quail, and pheasants that has caused their reduction in numbers?
And what’s even more remarkable is they did it within a year or two?
Again, if turkeys were that destructive there wouldn’t be one to be found down here. Managers of wild bird plantations would have a bounty out on their heads and extend it to the surrounding counties, lol. We have turkeys that’ll die of old age on the plantation I help out at and quail hunts are our source of income. Without quail, we don’t have hunts. Without hunts, we don’t make money.
I can tell you from hunting Washington and Idaho, there’s no shortage of grouse where I hunted. Those jokers were drumming up a storm everywhere I went and if you flushed one it would definitely wake you up. I think there were more grouse than turkeys.

I rest my case.
Give it up Wanna Be lol

I will retract the killing grouse comment in my post because I have never seen it just heard that story. The rest of my comments are true. Mom and dad gave anyone who wanted to hunt permission and the neighbor allowed it as long as you killed as many as you could. He had a small feedlot where they were a nuisance. Fish and Game trapped 50 some turkeys off moms front lawn with one shot from a net gun. She can't have bird feeders for the small winter birds because the turkeys won't stay out of them.

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Cant speak for others, but im not suggesting that at all. What i am suggesting is that adult turkeys killing young poults when an opportunity arises is not a complete myth as suggested.

Very interesting topic and observations. I don't have any knowledge on the subject either way. I can say in my area and on my place there is a lot of pheasants, and we have a lot of turkeys. The reasons we have some numbers of decline in pheasants are due to hard long wintahs. Turkeys go in number changes as well for reasons also.

I can say it wouldn't surprise me they kill some birds because of their aggressive mentality. I do believe nature takes it course just like any other game where they are on the food chain.

Watched a hen turkey kill a baby red squirrel month ago.

Had a turkey that would peck on my sliding door to announce his presence. Wife fed him black oil sunflower seeds, He could eat a pint a day. One day he was hunting grasshoppers along a pond bank when he unknowingly walked up to a large snapping turtle hiding in the grass. The turtle grabbed the gobbler by the leg a dragged it into the pond drowning it. Ate everything but the feathers.

WOW! Now that is an interesting.

I’ll be glad to come take care of your turkey problems in the spring at no charge, as long as you own or have legal rights to the land and are willing to give me written permission.