Skagit county

[prophet]

Hmmm... That's funny. Last summer I was driving by some open fields in  Marysville and seen two turkeys out millin around. I ask my bro who was also in the car. " what the weck are those suppose to be turkeys " he said "looks like it". On are way home one of the turkeys was close to the road. And sure enough it was a turkey. Don't know if it was a pet or wild. It wasn't those white farm turkeys, it look wild easterns. Later I tried coming back to take a pic. But the bird where gone. That was the only time I have ever seen turkeys in Marysville. So I wouldn't be surprised to find small pockets in the skagit areas.

[yelp]

Another possiblity..Tulalip tribes raising game farm turkeys.   

http://nwifc.org/2010/08/wild-turkey-population-introduced-on-tulalip-reservation/

[yelp]

More     

http://youtu.be/LztKrp2B6qk

[Wacenturion]

People will never learn..........

[Wacenturion]

You tube link doesn't work.

[yelp]

try it now
...the music is awesome!   

[Wacenturion]

Give them a year or so in the neighborhood and see how the love grows.  Might as well paint them white....as I said before.....people never learn.

Really can't blame the tribe for trying.  If WDFW did their job you could have conceivably had the real deal released on tribal lands in a partnership effort.  Now we end up with another game farm experiment.....and we know how they always end up.

[lokidog]

YOU CAN BUY EASTERN STOCK CHICKS AND EGGS FROM THE ONLINE POULTRY PLACES.  These have the same genes as any that WDFW released here in Western WA.

[Turkeyman]

Some people will never learn.

[yelp]

YOU CAN BUY EASTERN STOCK CHICKS AND EGGS FROM THE ONLINE POULTRY PLACES.  These have the same genes as any that WDFW released here in Western WA.

Lokidog are you a geneticist?  If so do you have any evidence to support your comments?   If so I am impressed.  Inbreeding in game farms is nowhere near trapping wild stock and releasing wild stock.  Also are the catalog varieties disease free?  Disease tested for any of the nasty pathogens?  Tribes, private farms, people who release game farm stock are doing no good releasing these types.  As you see in Laconnor and Twisp for examples..They have created issues.  Also they threaten the healthy released flocks that were released in Arlington.  Those flocks came from wild stock in Iowa and were quarantined at SeaTac until they passed all the necessary blood work showing no diseases.  They also were released in areas where a habitat evaluation was completed and approved prior to all releases.   They weren't released willy nilly in any habitat out there. 

[Skyvalhunter]

Yea no one likes a willy nilly release. Almost like a teeny weeny bit.

[BOWHUNTER45]

Wake up.... another crappy day here in Skagit ... Yelp is correct ... Farm raised - Pen raised birds do not work ..History states that inorder for a successful release to happen the birds need to be trapped in the wild and released back into the wild ..One of the problems with ben raised birds is disease and second these birds are never tought from there mother about predators ... one example is looking up to see danger coming from the sky so the hawk -eagles and everything in between snatch them up ... And Yelp , the birds in twisp are really expanding ..seen a flock of 60+ last year not counting the birds on loop loop pass .. more birds in this area than people know about ..GOBBLE GOBBLE Cant believe I have not left the house yet ......

[yelp]

LEave the house..LOL  IT is tough..they just forcasted snow!  2-3 "...CRAP!  Bring the snow camo now.  Al Gore can bite my ass!

[Seatown5]

Im still trying to get more information on these birds I'll let everyone know once i know more.

[BOWHUNTER45]

hahaha funny huh ... yeah it sure seems like clobal warming to me .. I think I may wait one more week  or until  Wednesday ... I like those lonely gobblers ...The sweet thing is I have two areas where no one can hunt so thats sweet and the birds are always there .. I will never forget walking up to these people when my boys were little and asking if we could hunt ... There exact words were how could we say no to those two cute little boys ...hahahahaha and to top it off they got birds and the excitement they showed those land owners got them in for life ....a memory that lasts forever !