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Other Hunting => Turkey Hunting => Topic started by: rosscrazyelk on April 30, 2009, 11:25:28 AM

Title: Can Turkeys smell?
Post by: rosscrazyelk on April 30, 2009, 11:25:28 AM: Your thoughts?
Title: Re: Can Turkeys smell?
Post by: SpokaneSlayer on April 30, 2009, 11:26:29 AM: No they can't, at least not nearly as well as say a deer. If they had that kind of sense of smell, you'd never kill one.
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Post by: klickman on April 30, 2009, 11:39:39 AM: Thank god they can't. They would be impossible to hunt.
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Post by: MuleySniper on April 30, 2009, 11:49:21 AM: If they could, wastickslinger would NEVER, I repeat NEVER kill a bird! :chuckle:
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Title: Re: Can Turkeys smell?
Post by: boneaddict on April 30, 2009, 11:50:46 AM: THey can hear and see so well, they don't need to smell. LOL
Title: Re: Can Turkeys smell?
Post by: rosscrazyelk on April 30, 2009, 12:28:01 PM: I figured as much but with my little knowledge of turkey's had to ask.
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Post by: Big10gauge on April 30, 2009, 12:31:11 PM: Depends on how long you leave them in the sun. :tung:

Yes they can smell according to some biologists but not very well, if you believe everything on the internet
Title: Re: Can Turkeys smell?
Post by: popeshawnpaul on April 30, 2009, 12:41:24 PM: Do turkeys have large talons?
Title: Re: Can Turkeys smell?
Post by: mossback91 on April 30, 2009, 12:42:05 PM: Quote from: popeshawnpaul on April 30, 2009, 12:41:24 PM
Do turkeys have large talons?

Large enough to tear you up!
Title: Re: Can Turkeys smell?
Post by: boneaddict on April 30, 2009, 12:42:41 PM: From a guy who raises all sorts of birds.....they can be the stupidest, single minded critters on the planet. You can stick them in from of a small fence, log or obstacle and they can't seem to think a way around it. Just kepp running into it. But what they have in their mind that works is survival. They can detect the littlest of things. Just ask my peacocks. They can sense snakes, cats, owls, hawks and all sorts of stuff that you and I would never know. Let alone some 6'5 guy sneaking around with a big white lens. Their hearing, vibration detection, and site have got to be incredible. I have a hard time getting pics of them because they can hear my lens focusing and the gears in my camera. Its enough to send them packing.

When you have one by the neck they do
Title: Re: Can Turkeys smell?
Post by: follow maggie on April 30, 2009, 12:57:53 PM: I've always wondered that, myself. Thank goodness they can't smell well- combined with their eyes, I'd never get to put one in the smoker!
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Post by: rosscrazyelk on April 30, 2009, 05:20:06 PM: Quote
Do turkeys have large talons?

Are you giving me s@#t Pope? :chuckle:
Title: Re: Can Turkeys smell?
Post by: bow4elk on April 30, 2009, 05:33:11 PM: No, not to any human detection levels anyway. It is said that if a turkey had the nose of a deer, you'd never kill one. That may be a stretch but the point is, their sense of smell is negligible for hunting purposes.
Title: Re: Can Turkeys smell?
Post by: MuleySniper on April 30, 2009, 05:36:58 PM: Quote from: popeshawnpaul on April 30, 2009, 12:41:24 PM
Do turkeys have large talons?

:chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:I might have to watch Napoleon tonight after that one!