Remember these?

Can't post png pictures I'll try to figure it out.

4 so far

That is so cool man.

They were really making alot of noise peeping INSIDE the eggs.I guess it synchronizes hatching.

this is awesome !

awesome Mike!

Cool Mike!!!!!!

I call dibs on buying the one in the front left when you get her trained to shake those tail feathers and talk shameless and trashy on command...she's going to be a "Cindy Crawford caliber" hottie hen when she hits puberty! Looks like my Avian X is going on the swap thread.

Very cool...

Outstanding,, well done Mike.

Awesome I want a wild Tom for a pet. I always did want one but running out of time now.

Fantastic !!!! :-)

Rick

Awesome

Reminds me. I was mowing my orange grove a couple days ago and disturbed a hen and her chicks. I pulled out of the area and watched her calling her chicks to her. But, she was acting very weird, running back and forth for twenty yards or so raising all types of cain. I figure she was mad at me, but then she flew up toward a tree on the edge of my groove and tried to "spur" a hawk sitting there that I had not seen. Pretty cool. I just hope she got the kiddies all back together.

Fun stuff there! We need you to post some pics of them following you down the street in single file.

very nice, remember to feed them the high protien stuff,,chicken feed wont work

Feather factory

That’s totally cool!!

That’s totally cool!!

They are on gamebird starter not chicken feed

Good goin! What age is safe for release?

Great luv that stuff. Rooty

Pretty cool! Thanks for the up date.

#6,7&8 hatching,#9 peeping

Got video of one hatching no clue how to post a video

Fantastic!

We hatched some wild turkey eggs that the nest had been destroyed when I was a kid. We put them under a chicken to incubate them... haha

But when they hatched, they were wild as all get out!!! no taming them. They eventually died. I would have never thought they would have been wild like that. Go figure...

Now's the time to put your ghillie suit on around them.... :)

4nolz, What's the plan for them now?

-Bones

One spring while gathering maple sap i saw a hen turkey get Up and slink off, sure enough she had a nest with 8 eggs. I stole a couple and boiled them for breakfast next day. They tasted bland,.i prefer chicken eggs. Sandy

All 12 hatched

Your Doing great!!

Cool stuff Doc!!!!

Post up some video Mike when they start strutting!

They strut even as chicks.I don't know how to do video.

The Turkey whisper...er.Ha! Great stuff!

Yeah, I've seen chicks strut. Funny stuff. You'll have to upload to youtube and post and share the link

You get a BIG atta boy! I need a dumb one for next month;)

Wow Mike is that all of them. That's so incredible. Whats the plan to let them loose again and how soon to be sure they can handle it.

The less they see of you the better, after about a week get you about a half a tube of Crickets and drop a few in at a time, they'll catch on pretty quick.

They are noisy.

I'm not sure of the final plan.Ive never had them live past 2-3 months old.

We raised one from the only egg left in a damaged nest. They imprint on you immediately. We couldn't get 3 feet from him when he was a chick, they want to stay right under your feet. Then he progressed to sitting on shoulders and heads. By 7 years of age he was a mean aggressive gobbler - willing to prove how he was in charge. He lived 9 long years.

That is neat. We would get arrested for that in Wv

Yes I expect the gobblers just like bottle raised bucks can be really dangerous.Its a quandry.

Red oak is right they are very aggressive when they become full grown the gobblers . i had a neighbor that raised one and till he was 4 years old he had to butcher him he just was to nasty to be around you could not turn your back on him he would try to spur you peck at your legs then in the spring like now he was just not safe to handle .

Videos galore of urbanized turkeys being menaces in neighborhoods

You better get practicing,,,,those little sucker are gona be hard to hit with an arrow

; )

That looks like fun! I found a nest in my yard and watched. Hen got run off and killed. I wanted to hatch them and called game and fish. I was told they would arrest me if I proceeded. Common sense???? Wish I would have just gone ahead and did the right thing.

Very cool Mike! Good luck with them!

Bode it's a PR problem/hassle for most Game and Fish orgs.I have a wildlife permit.

Pretty cool 4nolz. You're gonna have fun with them.

Good luck with them

https://documentarystorm.com/my-life-as-a-turkey/

Interesting documentary of guy raising a clutch in Florida.

That's a famous book by Naturalist Joe Hutto called "Illumination in the Flatwoods" the hardcover is hard to find and $$ but a paperback version has been released by turkey icon Tom Kelly on his website.

Good read...and available on Kindle for us cheapos!

My wife and I enjoyed your thread.

Growing fast

Dude that’s awesome

Nice! I bet they can already fly. I've seen partridge chicks fly barely a day or two old, and baby turkeys like that fly. Looks like they are getting wing feathers already.

Ive always heard if wild chicks dont get caught by something by 5-6 days old that they can roost in bushes/scrub

Gonna be fun watching them grow.

Very interesting!!!

Growing fast threw in a couple chicks to calm them down.

That's cool. Keep the updates coming. Jim

They are not going to calm down a whole lot, turkey chicks are hot. hey are going to need more space pretty quickly.

Your going to need an outside pen with hardware cloth 24" up from the ground, They will do a lot of stupid things with chicken wire, it's ok above 24" though. Depending upon your game plan whether or not you'll need a roof. Where I live Coyotes and Hawks would find them pretty fast.

Yep

Very cool all I have only wanted was one Tom as a pet and you get the raise all these. Beyond cool. Keep showing us pictures Mike though please. I'm sure we all would like to keep checking them out too.

None of these will be pets.Im not sure what the plan is but wildlife rehabilitation fails if the animals are kept captive.Theyve imprinted on people which was unavoidable. Usually these type projects fail in the long-term.

Hope that this project will turn out OK. BLESSED BE! BATMAN

They'll make it around your place if you supplement them, and if nothing eats them. They won't be tame and can't make it totally on their own, but they won't be wild either as you know. The mature Toms sure as Hell won't be friendly so having one as a pet is pretty much out of the question. It's what you get into, they are caught between two worlds and don't fit into either.

That's gonna be great when thsy start calling you Daddy!

Fun stuff Mike. Have they all survived?

1 escaped 1 died

That's cool. They grow quick don't they. Keep the updates coming. Jim

awesome !

Looking good, and fun project. Still waiting to see what the final outcome is.

-Bones

Now this is too cool ...

Can't wait to see the next update, that's very cool.Thanks for sharing with all.

That's really cool. Too bad about the momma. It's interesting to see the light color variations in the early poults. That will be a bittersweet separation when you let them go.

So much for raising a rafter of comfort animals!

They call if veal for baby calves, what do they call it for baby turkeys?

They're pretty bony now

You gave infiltrated the enemy!!! My buddy had 3 hatch yesterday we are excited to see them grow. His daughter wants to be a vet and she's well on her way with all their farm animals which now include wild turkeys

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