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FREEDGUY 
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 Topic: Wild Turkeys
Posted: 29 Apr 2020 at 5:56pm |
My brother was out in a wooded area Monday scoping out mushrooms and ran across a turkey nest with 14 eggs in it !! It's no wonder that their population is getting out of control, these things multiply almost as fast as mice  ! I understand that not all of them will survive, but I never dreamed they laid that many eggs  .
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HD6GTOM
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Posted: 29 Apr 2020 at 6:23pm |
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They do. There are hundreds of them around here, almost as many as the dam deer. DNR had to turn Bob cats loose here to bring them under control.
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BuckSkin
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Posted: 30 Apr 2020 at 12:18am |
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I bush-hogged about a hundred acres of corn-stalk ground a few weeks after we had chopped the silage and busted up probably a dozen nests with as many or more eggs as you counted in the one you saw.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 30 Apr 2020 at 2:24am |
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the ones around here take on kenworths quite often, they both lose!
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desertjoe
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Posted: 30 Apr 2020 at 3:37am |
JEEEZZEEE Guys,,,,then's good eatin tight there,,,they taste like,,,,,,,chickies,,,,
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shameless dude
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Posted: 30 Apr 2020 at 5:14am |
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we never had them around here until about 10 years ago, the neighbor got some chicks and raised them, turned over 100 of them loose in the area. now they are all over, and i don't mind them at all.
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Thad in AR.
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Posted: 30 Apr 2020 at 6:15am |
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We used to have a lot here. Some say the 2009 ice storm wiped out a bunch. See them on occasion but not like it used to be. When we work in the counties south of here they seem to be doing well.
Wild turkey is the best eating in the woods.
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allisorange
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Posted: 30 Apr 2020 at 6:44am |
We had a lot of them a few years back but the population is way down in are area of the UP.
J carlson
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Pat the Plumber CIL
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Posted: 30 Apr 2020 at 7:29am |
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At my friends place over by Pittsfield on the western side of the state he used to have big flocks of wild turkeys . Around 2008 they disappeared . We see 1 every once in a while now . Talked to biologist for DNR about the turkeys not being around as much . He claimed the buffalo knats are hard on them . He also claimed the buffalo knats showed up after the Asian carp started taking the river over . Somehow it all connects
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ac fleet
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Posted: 30 Apr 2020 at 12:13pm |
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State dumps the damn things out here all of the time ---- gives the coyotes something to eat--not many ever last long.---anything getting in my garden is history though,--and no I don't eat them! -----used to harvest a deer now and then---they are good! Deer burger in chili is real good too.
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FREEDGUY
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Posted: 30 Apr 2020 at 5:11pm |
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Dusty MI
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Posted: 30 Apr 2020 at 7:17pm |
We have a few turkeys wall through our yard every few days.
Dusty
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john(MI)
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Posted: 30 Apr 2020 at 9:40pm |
At first I didn't care for it, but the more you drink the better it gets. After about a half bottle, you just don't care anymore. 
We had lots of them around here but I ain't seen none for quite awhile now. The neighbor keeps the coyotes gone from the area so I don't know what's going on. It sure is depressing cause they were coming back so strong.
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