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i've never seen wild turkeys act so boldly. they're very skittish in my experience.
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"This turkey has literally taken over our life," Coon Rapids resident Rachael Gross said.
Rachael Gross says she lives in fear of going outside, thanks to her neighbor, a wild turkey, who seems to have taken a liking to her property.
"This turkey attacks me every single day. Follows me, goes up my stairs, tries to get into my house. When I leave in my car, it follows my car," she said.
The wild turkey has attacked people, pecked at tires and chased cars.
Our area Walmart used to have a wild turkey that would hang out in the parking lot. Sometimes it would make itself comfortable on the hoods or roofs of people's cars. There were a couple of articles in the paper about it. lol
It might be the same species as "wild turkey" but it might have hatched out of someone's domestically raised flock. IME, some toms are despots but others are tolerant and mellow.
I was a manager of a national wildlife refuge in NJ years ago. Our office was set back in a big patch of coastal woodland. One year a family of "wild" turkeys discovered us and started hanging around the office compound. The hens were flighty, but the tom was very friendly and trusting. He'd march up the office steps, park himself on the railing or tap on the door hoping someone would come out to give him a neck scratch. He would have walked right in if we let him. If you walked across the yard he'd do his little courtship dance around your legs, purring and fluttering. He'd fly up onto the roof and strut back and forth. Unfortunately, he'd use employee cars as stepping stones to the roof and kept pooping on or scratching the paint and his rooftop displays were distracting. While I tended to be at the office more of the time and enjoyed any excuse to take a break outdoors, chatting with a friendly magnificent turkey was a pleasure. The rest of the staff voted and decided our little flock was no longer welcome. We got in touch with a local landowner who hoped for a small flock of his own. We coaxed them into dog crates and drove them over. They probably lived high off the hog after that. The guy's kids adored them.
She can't have a barbecue. With 2 feet of snow in the yard.
I'm going to guess you don't live where it snows. Barbecue goes on all year round. We have two foot of snow on the ground right now and there are spareribs defrosting in the kitchen to be cooked on the barbecue tonight. You just fire up the grill and put a coat on to go outside and cook.
It's hard to imagine being afraid of wild turkeys, but they do cause a problem with their poop and scratching the cars. Turkeys are all bluff. Call their bluff and they back right down. They are smart enough to tell the difference between people and will change their behavior for encounters with different people.
If they live in a residential area and run towards you, they are hoping you are there to give them food not to attack you.
It's hard to imagine being afraid of wild turkeys, but they do cause a problem with their poop and scratching the cars. Turkeys are all bluff. Call their bluff and they back right down. They are smart enough to tell the difference between people and will change their behavior for encounters with different people.
Based on limited experience I agree. I'd rather square off with a turkey instead of some massive domestic goose! I will never live down the humiliation (as supposedly tough field biologist) of being chased into the Sprague River by a goose named Pancake. Still, he only managed it once. The next time he tried, I called his bluff big time. He never bothered me again .
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