BS: Wild turkeys ?

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Jul 20 - 09:01 PM

I was driving Interstate route 90,
the stretch of it known as the Massachusetts Turnpike
or the MassPike for short,
last week.

And there they were,
NOT in the median,
but where the shoulder went to a rising grassy slope.

A pair of adult wild turkeys
AND their little ones, must have been half-a-dozen "chicks",
grazing up the slope in the grass.

Not all that far away
from all these automobiles exceeding the speed limit, either --
those turkeys are brave, or deaf, or something.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Iains
Date: 08 Nov 19 - 05:44 AM

We have a slew of wild turkeys in the UK. They did not vote for Christmas and will meet their demise at the ballot box.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Nov 19 - 07:44 PM

I spotted a single solitary wild turkey today,
which is weird, because they don't normally wander around by themselves.
The turkey had already crossed the street.
Of course I slowed down and looked around for
the inevitable other turkeys
that might be trailing behind,
and there were none.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Nov 19 - 05:07 PM

Turkeys being bizarre:

https://youtu.be/pS45_L8fLLc

Sorry about the ads.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Nov 19 - 06:06 PM

An infant turkey, according to Wikipedia
(for the person who asked),
is a "chick" or a "poult"   

(which calls to mind 'pullet' for some reason).

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Feb 19 - 05:53 PM

Too bad those ravenous critters called
fishers
can't catch wild turkeys,
but I don't think that predator and that prey
would mix, somehow.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jan 19 - 07:18 PM

Don't slip on the goose "grease" and end up in it!

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jan 19 - 12:10 PM

... but the really territorial ones are the Canada geese.
They take over parking lots and sidewalks.
Sometimes it is hazardous just to get to one's parked car from the FedexOffice branch.
Watch out for those geese ...

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: olddude
Date: 29 Jan 19 - 09:12 PM

They are amazing eating though

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jan 19 - 08:56 PM

There are many here and they are a capital N Nuisance. A golfer beaned a tom last summer, killing it dead. No one was in mourning.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Jan 19 - 06:57 PM

I know what olddude is talking about
when turkeys cross the road.
They take their own sweet time about it
and there is always a group formation.

Some exurbian roads have Turkey Crossing signs at particular points,
so habituated are both the turkeys and the drivers.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Charmion
Date: 29 Jan 19 - 11:17 AM

Ontario suburbanites have taken to complaining to their local authorities about over-bold turkeys hanging around their back yards and terrorizing their house pets.

I think those people need to develop a taste for turkey ...

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: olddude
Date: 27 Jan 19 - 06:57 PM

I sit on my deck in the spring with my turkey call and get a kick out of a big gobbler Running with his tail feathers all puffed out for the ladies

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: olddude
Date: 27 Jan 19 - 06:51 PM

My wiener dogs are always barking when they cross my back yard

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: olddude
Date: 27 Jan 19 - 06:50 PM

I don’t hunt them. In Pennsylvania they were a challenge to hunt not so much here. I get a kick out of watching them. When one decides to cross the highway you better wait as 30 of them will follow and they don’t look both ways

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: olddude
Date: 27 Jan 19 - 06:44 PM

We have thousands and thousands here there is a fall season and spring season for hunters and closely regulated. I have a flock in my yard about every few days

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Jan 19 - 03:23 PM

According to Massachusetts Fish and Game,
turkey hunting regulations are up for public comment, review,
and possible revision.
This announcement comes after the Fisheries and Wildlife Board
communicated with the National Wildlife Turkey Federation,
according to this press release.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Blackcatter
Date: 02 Apr 04 - 09:00 PM

You're right Rapaire. Sour mash is akin to sourdough, which I believe is a word connection - off to get my unabridged dictionary. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Apr 04 - 08:19 PM

AND there's a difference -- quite easily tasted -- between sweet and sour mash whiskeys. In sour mash leavings of the previous mash are used to start the current mash, in sweet mash the mash tub is cleaned and new yeasts and sugars are used. (REAL corn whiskey doesn't depend upon sugars other than those naturally in the corn and the malted corn, either.)

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Blackcatter
Date: 02 Apr 04 - 08:01 PM

To be labeled rye wishkey in the U.S., it has to be made of at least 51% rye mash. Anything else isnot officially rye, but what people call things are a different matter. Most people don't know that there's a difference between Kentucky Bourbon whiskey and Tennessee whiskey. Certainly the flavor differnece isn't huge, but they are made differently.

Wild Turkey make one of the best straight ryes going. Beam's 8 Star is a good starter rye as it's a bit lighter than the Wild Turkey.

And just in case you're not sure - Jack Daniels and George Dickel are the only major distilleries who produce Tennessee whiskey. All others (Beam, Booker's, Knob Creek, Maker's Mark, Old Charter, and Wild Turkey) are Bourbon.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Apr 04 - 09:38 AM

It'll put a crick in yer knob, yup.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: GUEST,Mary V.
Date: 02 Apr 04 - 09:21 AM

I've never heard the word "peafowl" before. Maybe we don't have peafowl in Wisconsin .
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 02 Apr 04 - 12:19 AM

About 25 years ago, I was given a taste of Old Fitzgerald 18__. The stuff was ambrosial and I have never found it again.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: MarkS
Date: 01 Apr 04 - 11:44 PM

If anybody wants to hear bird calls which are world class ugly and annoying, get a bunch of guinea hens. We have a flock in and about our barn, and they do a great job keeping the ticks down, but the noise.....yuck
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: LadyJean
Date: 01 Apr 04 - 11:43 PM

Peafowl are also rather bad tempered.
You can't pull over on that stretch of Bigelow Boulevard. There is no shoulder. There is no curb. So, you could shoot the turkeys. But you couldn't collect your turkey once you'd shot it.
As there is no curb, shoulder, or other pulling over location, nobody drives the speed limit on that stretch of Bigelow. If you're fond of Wild Turkey, or Old Granddad, or Jack Daniels, don't drive Bigelow. (Don't drive, but especially don't drive Bigelow.)

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 01 Apr 04 - 05:55 PM

GUEST MaryV, before you go looking to buy peafowl, let me ask you, have you heard the peafowl's call? It is as screamingly ugly as the male's plumage in full array is beautiful.

Just thought I'd warn you.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 01 Apr 04 - 05:53 PM

On the subject of rye whiskey, be aware that to most Americans, especially in the northeast section of the country, "rye whiskey" is just about any blended whiskey, and assuredly will NOT be made from rye. I've had friends who were ready to fight for the proposition that there is no such thing as made-from-rye whiskey.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Blackcatter
Date: 01 Apr 04 - 05:36 PM

Drinking? No - we just TALK about drinking.


Seriously though - are you just trying to get her to lay eggs to eat, or to actually breed to have turklets? (ummm turkinas? turks?)

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: GUEST,Mary V.
Date: 01 Apr 04 - 05:21 PM

Thank you, how come everyones so well versed on drinking whiskey ?
We have 32 of them in our yard everyday...and they are so beautiful strutting around for the female turkey...but they all appear to be sober .

Mary V.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Blackcatter
Date: 01 Apr 04 - 11:13 AM

I knew someone who was weak-kneed - he always drank sitting down.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Apr 04 - 10:38 AM

But does it do what it says on the bottle?
John

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Apr 04 - 10:33 AM

Having lived in the Southland, I don't find shots of Wild Turkey and shots at wild turkeys to be so far about....

Knob Creek is an excellent bourbon, straight small-batch, small barrel bourbon whiskey coming it at about 120 proof. Definitely NOT for the weak-kneed!

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Blackcatter
Date: 01 Apr 04 - 01:45 AM

Ok, ok - back to the flippin' birds!

You know, in the South, a stretch of road where you can't pull over, so they're safe from turkey hunters wouldn't be an issue - We drive our pick-ups while our friends shoot out the passenger side. Even better if the birds are just sittin' there.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: LadyJean
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 11:38 PM

I was going to tell everyone about the flock of wild turkeys who roost on a piece of modern sculpture on Bigelow Boulevard in Pittsburgh.
This is in the heart of the city. They've found a stretch of road where you can't pull over, so they're safe from turkey hunters.
I never really cared for that particular piece of sculpture, until it became a turkey roost.
But the subject of the thread is now whiskey, so I can't tell you about the turkeys on Bigelow Boulevard.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Blackcatter
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 09:12 PM

Knob Creek whistkey is slightly cloudy. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 06:33 PM

Would you drink anything from a place called Knob Creek?

I'll stick to the Sloe Gin - I know where that's been!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 06:28 PM

Bookers. Knob Creek. Wolford Reserve. LOTS of good bourbons these days. Maker's Mark. Buffalo Track. Others....

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Dead Horse
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 05:48 PM

Isn't that where the Sloe Air came from, or is that restricted to..........................Gin?

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Blackcatter
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 11:34 AM

By the way - my favorite unusual whiskey is a little-known Irish rye whiskey. It is made from the famous fields of Athens rye in southern Ireland. The rye is a particular strain that originated near Athens Greece.

The flavor of the Athenry Whiskey is particularly mellow and strong but with a haunting note that lingers long after "your ship has sailed."

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Blackcatter
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 11:06 AM

Yes - when considering the "organization" of distilled spirits, bourbon is a form of whiskey. It's main differences from Scotch Whisky (note no 'e') is that it is made primarily from corn and it is commonly aged in barrels that have been burned on the inside to form charcoal, which adds much of the flavor and color. That is different from Tennessee whiskey in that Tennessee whiskey is filtered through charcoal on it's way to the aging barrels which, like those in Scotland and Ireland are unburnt.

The main forms of whiskey are: Scotch whisky, Irish whiskey, Bourbon whiskey, Tennessee whiskey, Rye whiskey, Canadian whiskey.

And the difference between Scotch and Irish? Both malt the barley over a peat fire, but the Scots do it in an open container, which allows varying degrees of the peat smoke to change the flavor of the barly mash. The Irish do it in a closed container.

Wild Turkey is a Bourbon.

By the way - whisky is about the only thing still legitimately called "Scotch" (other than tape). The preferred term for everything else is "Scots"

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 10:44 AM

aren't all bourbon's technically whisky?

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 10:41 AM

No Glen Grant is a whisky, Wild Turkey is a Bourbon, and delicious too. It might conceivably fit the description of whiskey, but I don't think so.:¬]>
John

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 09:12 AM

Mary-

Don't feed them peacocks anywhere near the entry to your house, or you may find yourself slip-sliding away some morning!

Wild turkeys are also thriving in Maine since their re-introduction in the 1970's. When you see a flock of them moving across the field in the early morning, you can almost imagine them being a flock of dinosaurs.

Your turkey should be laying eggs this spring, infertile of course unless there is a roving Tom or Mudcatter in the neighborhood.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 09:12 AM

Watch it, the peacocks and the turkey might interbreed. You'd end up with peakeys or turncocks or something.

"Jake" is a term used with wild turkeys....

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: GUEST,Mary V.
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 06:51 AM

Thanks everyone , thats what I needed to know. Would love it if we could get some peacocks. That would make for a beautiful sight.
Mary V.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 04:27 AM

I always though wild turkey was whisky until I discovered Glen Grant.
eric

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Blackcatter
Date: 31 Mar 04 - 01:39 AM

I don't like to use tom as the name for a male turkey - and I swear it has nothing to do with my first name . . .

We have wild turkeys throughout the Orlando area - like to see them while camping. As for birds around the house, there's a group of peacocks living in my neighborhood (and I live in downtown Orlando). Stepped out of my apartment last week to see one standing on the seat of my scooter.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Amergin
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 11:50 PM

Well Open Mike....some people just have shall we say...exotic tastes.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: open mike
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 11:46 PM

oh burcie i am so impressed--you like cats and turkeys too! versatile guy.,.

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Mark Clark
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 11:31 PM

Turkeys are quite adept at reproduction. Wild turkeys were extinct in Iowa throughout most of the 20th century. Fifteen years ago or so they were reintroduced into some wildlife preserve areas in northeast Iowa. Now I see a whole flock (12) of wild turkeys stroling through my yard in the middle of town (pop. 130,000). We often see wild turkeys in town while driving around. They seem to be outnumbered only by deer and rabbits.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Cluin
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 10:56 PM

Tom's got a fowl cock?

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: rangeroger
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 10:52 PM

Blackcatter, that would be Tom.

rr

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Blackcatter
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 10:04 PM

OK Brucie - you're an expert on wild turkeys and you don't have women swooning over you!?!

Mary - Brucie's right, from what I know of fowl, she's been ready for a while. Got a cock around to knock her up?

Subject: RE: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: Peace
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 08:48 PM

Hens reach puberty at 4-5 months of age. Average nest up to 12 eggs. Mortality due to predation is high. So, I think so.

Subject: BS: Wild turkeys ?
From: GUEST,Mary V.
Date: 30 Mar 04 - 08:20 PM

Can a one year old wild turkey hen lay eggs ?
We are hoping they will reproduce this year
and we have no idea if they need to be older.
Thank you