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Something Is Killing Our Turkeys

Started by TalksToTurkeys, May 07, 2011, 07:56:35 PM

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TalksToTurkeys

May 07, 2011, 07:56:35 PM
Walking out from this mornings hunt I found a lot of gobbler feathers at one my spots. My first thought was, someone was in there and killed one yesterday.
They were mostly back feathers and I thought it must have been a body shot. I walked about 60 yds.down the trail and found another pile of feathers and a small pool of blood. The leaves were all kicked up like a struggle had taken place. I could see tracks but they were not clear enough to identify the culprit.
I suspect a coyote.
I've killed a couple in the area. It looks like I need to kill a few more of the mangey turkey killers.


:fud:

cannonball

#1
May 07, 2011, 10:50:10 PM
Smoke the yotes! I can't stand those things.

Hognutz

#2
May 07, 2011, 11:53:44 PM
They are turkey killin' machines..
May I assume you're not here to inquire about the alcohol or the tobacco?
If attacked by a mob of clowns, go for the juggler.

Scout24

#3
May 08, 2011, 07:41:23 AM
Twice I've had coyotes  rush in and grab my decoys, dropping them just as quick as they bite the plastic heads. We've had a big resurgence of bobcats up here and they're deadly turkey killers as well as the fishers, no wonder they're a nervous wreck.

fl panhandler

#4
May 08, 2011, 07:50:19 AM
It seems to me that everything wants to eat turkeys and their eggs.  Bobcats, Yotes, snakes that eat eggs, foxes, and I have heard that Racoons are one of the worst on nests and eggs.
Rick

surehuntsalot

#6
May 08, 2011, 09:15:16 PM
kill all you see
it's not the harvest,it's the chase

GC

#7
May 08, 2011, 10:01:08 PM
Coyotes get the blame for just about everything that goes wrong in nature right up to and including rising gasoline prices.  There really isn't any evidence relayed by the poster that points specifically to a coyote as the suspect.  As a larger predator coyotes are far less efficient turkey killers than bobcats.  Far more harm is done to overall turkey populations by nest raiders like raccoons, skunks, and crows; hawks & owls snatch little ones and sometimes adults too, plus cold wet weather is a killer for eggs and first hatched.  My first passion in the outdoors is predator calling and I kill my share of coyotes and some more, but I do understand the way the hunt and they aren't the worst of the turkey killers out there truth be known.
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