Author Topic: Does it count toward your slam if the Tom is doing your pet hen in the yard? (Read 6492 times)

lokidog · « **on:** May 02, 2009, 10:33:42 PM »

Got a horny young tom hanging out outside the chicken coop trying to get our hen to come out and play. She finally came out.... He hung around till dark, even went in the coop and ate some pellet food.

He was with a wild hen the day before yesterday, hope she is on a nest today!

bowhunterforever · « **Reply #1 on:** May 02, 2009, 11:25:48 PM »

Is that an eastern?

muleysgirl13 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 03, 2009, 09:08:03 AM »

What a cool visitor to have hanging around! Wish I had that view from the back porch but then again if I did he wouldn't be alive for long

lokidog · « **Reply #3 on:** May 03, 2009, 10:17:35 AM »

Yes, he's an eastern. And yes, it is very challenging keeping myself from adding him to my grocery list..... We are putting off short term gratification for long term (hopefully) increase in turkeys near our house.

Wacenturion · « **Reply #4 on:** May 03, 2009, 02:11:59 PM »

Oh....and since we're throwing out facts here and for the sake of accuracy, the birds that inhabit any of the islands in the San Juan's are from Eastern game farm stock raised on old WDFW pheasant farms (Whibey Island and others), back in the 60's and released on a couple of the islands. During that same time frame, but a few years later there was also a small release of wild trapped Merriam's from Klickitat county.

These birds were quite an irritant to WDFW back then and into the late 80s' when at that point they started to ignore them as they were and had been a continual nuisance problem since their release(s). This contributed to the lack of desire from Region 4 staff to look in a positive light at introductions of wild birds in the 90's, even though there was no basis to believe wild birds would ever do the same. It was a convenient excuse however that was used to deny new releases.

So what you have in the most part in the San Juan's are Easterns with some Merriam influence. They are by their nature tame in many respects, and certainly are not the equal of a wild released Eastern in southwest Washington (i.e. Lewis, Cowlitz, Thurston, Mason, Grays Harbor etc. counties), even though they by definition in the turkey regulations they qualify as one based on county of kill. For what it's worth.........

boneaddict · « **Reply #5 on:** May 03, 2009, 05:38:03 PM »

I love all this turkey species stuff. I'd have called that one a Merriams by the way it looked.

Good thing I chase deer instead of turkeys. For th emost part I can tell them apart.

BLKBEARKLR · « **Reply #6 on:** May 03, 2009, 06:25:48 PM »

Wow, talk about a thread being JACKED!!!!

Lokidog, nice pics glad you were able to have it in the yard and like you said hopefully it will make the area more populated with birds

lokidog · « **Reply #7 on:** May 03, 2009, 07:37:21 PM »

Sorrry! Just joking around with the pic..... It is definitely an Eastern, by the way, very tan barring. Also, I know the guy who released these. There were no turkeys on my little island until he released Eastern stock birds.

And yes, they are not as wary as Capital Forest birds, but we also don't have doofuses chasing them around all year. They do, however, taste just as good.

Aneoakleaf · « **Reply #8 on:** May 03, 2009, 11:00:07 PM »

back to the chicken pen... that looks like a hen turkey in the chicken pen to me......

billythekidrock · « **Reply #9 on:** May 04, 2009, 06:11:26 AM »

Loki,
Sorry for the hijack.

I hope you have little turks with crazy colorization to show us soon.

boneaddict · « **Reply #10 on:** May 04, 2009, 06:14:42 AM »

Nice pens by the way. I had a guy out the other day who is obviously an OCD builder. He looked at my pens and you could tell he was about to explode. I doubt I have a right angle out there. LOL

lokidog · « **Reply #11 on:** May 04, 2009, 09:27:41 AM »

Thanks Bone, it is the best buil structure on the property as it is the only one I have built.....

And yes Aneoak, it is a hen turkey. That is why the boy is there. She is four years old and provides a huge number of eggs to eat (106 last year). He bred her two days ago, so the next eggs she lays will be incubated to see what happens.....

He is still hanging out, woke us at 5:52 this morning, oh the horror....

rosscrazyelk · « **Reply #12 on:** May 04, 2009, 11:30:51 AM »

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I doubt I have a right angle out there. LOL

Let see it Bone.

boneaddict · « **Reply #13 on:** May 04, 2009, 11:40:07 AM »

I'd be embarrasses Ross. I built all the shacks and stuff with free materials. About the only thing I bought were the nets and wire. The only good thing about them now is that I have planted pens and the crab apples in them and lilacs are blooming etc.

KillBilly · « **Reply #14 on:** May 04, 2009, 11:44:02 AM »

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Does it count toward your slam if the Tom is doing your pet hen in the yard?

Is this a serious question? If so is anyone going to answer it? I am not sure what angles have to do with a Grand Slam and someone already has apologized for Jacking this thread. It looks like it didn't matter if it got Jacked...

Is there an answer out there?

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