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Author Topic: Look what I found!  (Read 1592 times)

Offline sixbird

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Look what I found!
« on: November 08, 2019, 11:18:50 PM »
Shot this jake on the evening of the last day of our Fall season. He had 119 green stink bugs, maybe 8 or so gray ones, about 10 black segmented worms, a couple of small acorns, maybe 10 or so cricket type bugs and 23 or so kernels of corn. This is about a third of what was in there.


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Re: Look what I found!
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2019, 11:35:57 PM »
Looks like he's been eating well

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« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2019, 09:56:33 AM »
Yes...Couldn't believe it when I saw it.
If there were ten turkeys walking through a place, they could eat almost 1200 stink bugs in an afternoon!
I've heard farmers say they didn't like turkeys because they thought they were destructive of their crops. I guess consuming that number of destructive bugs would more than balance out that aspect of their behavior.

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Re: Look what I found!
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2019, 04:32:42 PM »
That reminds me, I have to get to a friends house and get some pictures of what my turkey had been eating when I got it this Spring. Amazing what all they will eat.
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Re: Look what I found!
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2019, 09:02:37 PM »
I killed one this fall in the middle of a vast expanse of oaks dropping acorns.  Shot him at 4 in the afternoon so he had been feeding all day.  Not one acorn.  He was absolutely chock full
Of Rose Hips.  He was walking in a 6-8 year old cutover just picking them to beat the band

Offline Greg Massey

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Re: Look what I found!
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2019, 01:50:06 PM »
Grain feed , should eat good

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« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2019, 08:35:20 PM »
Got that picture today, interesting to see.

Scan_0005 by Sir-diealot, on Flickr
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Re: Look what I found!
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2019, 04:39:44 PM »
Always interesting to see what they have been eating. Congrats

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