Stocking your land w/ Turkeys?

• May 10, 2018

• #1

sowgabuckstalker

Senior Member

What the deal with this? A landowner near our farm (which just doesnt hold birds but see a few hear and there during deer season & the neighbors have birds) told me you can get them stocked? I wasnt aware? Or does he know what he is talking about? This is in South Georgia, Tift County to be exact. Thanks for any advice.

 

• May 10, 2018

• #2

Gut_Pile

Senior Member

There is a lot more to it than just "having them stocked"

 

• May 10, 2018

• #3

antharper

“Well Rounded Outdoorsman MOD “

Staff member

I’m not sure if it was legal or not but up until I was about 14 or 15 the county I lived in (Coffee) didn’t have a turkey season, and I had a neighbor that had a big flight pen and supposedly he raised several hundred turkeys over a few years and released them around the county and it wasn’t long we had a very strong population , not sure how true this is but I know he did raise turkeys

 

• May 12, 2018

• #4

The mtn man

Senior Member

You can buy eastern wild turkey poults from hatcheries like mcmurray. Not sure about the legality of raising them in a flight pen then releasing them, I guess if it's private property it wouldn't matter. Most hatcheries vaccinate too. That vaccination could theoretically spread disease to the remainder of the wild population. Not sure though.

 

• May 12, 2018

• #5

Jeff Raines

Senior Member

Almost impossible for turkeys raised in pens to survive in the wild.They have not been conditioned to predators.

 

• May 13, 2018

• #6

G

General Sherman

Member

Yes, that's what I do with all my deer too. I buy them from the hatchery.

 

• May 14, 2018

• #7

sowgabuckstalker

Senior Member

Lol, well this escalated quickly

 

• May 14, 2018

• #8

S

spurrs and racks

Banned

I cannot find a hatchery

selling eastern wild turkeys

s&r

 

• May 14, 2018

• #9

oops1

Buzzard Expert

Maybe check Petsmart

 

• May 14, 2018

• #10

PappyHoel

Senior Member

If you want CWD in your turkeys

 

• May 14, 2018

• #11

nrh0011

Senior Member

oops1 said:

Maybe check Petsmart

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Yes, they have them. Parrots too

 

• May 14, 2018

• #12

MoCo CRAPPIE

Member

 

• May 14, 2018

• #13

sowgabuckstalker

Senior Member

They offer same day drone deliver?

 

• May 16, 2018

• #14

The mtn man

Senior Member

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...FjABegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw3TtU6cFT1sRzPxsMtk3xEw this hatchery is just one of many hatcheries that sale "wild turkeys". I've bought some before a good while back, they look exactly like eastern, except when pen raised, they act like pen raised turkeys. There was an older fella around lake chatuge that had a lot of tame turkeys, he died out and the turkeys went feral. There was no color difference between them and wild turkeys, they survived and thrived spreading out all over that area. So if you ever hear a turkey gobble around lake chatuge, chances are they are descendents from those tame turkeys 25 years removed.

 

• May 16, 2018

• #15

S

spurrs and racks

Banned

ok, i'll say it again

I cannot find any place that sells eastern turkeys wild or not. And I have been looking for a while.

s&r

 

• May 16, 2018

• #16

S

spurrs and racks

Banned

southern farms hatchery

is out of business. That website is way out of date.

s&r

 

• May 16, 2018

• #17

wvdawg

Moderator

Staff member

sowgabuckstalker said:

They offer same day drone deliver?

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If you order from Amazon and give them GPS coordinates the drones will drop them down right in front of you - just like fly down!