Can i keep turkeys in my garden

Wild turkeys usually roost in trees, but in urban areas they are also known to roost on roofs or on decks. The good news is that wild turkeys are cautious birds that are pretty easy to scare away. You may also use motion-activated devices such as a Scarecrow Motion-Activated Sprinkler , which will scare turkeys away with a sharp burst of water or anti-perching devices such as Birdwire or another type of wire installation that limits or prevents perching on your roof.

Most of the crop and garden damage blamed on wild turkeys is actually caused by other animals such as raccoons, groundhogs, foxes, deer, or squirrels. Still, you can keep wild turkeys from feasting on your garden or shrubs by using a motion-activated scare device such as a Scarecrow Motion-Activated Sprinkler or by protecting plants and vegetables with hardware cloth.

Try to avoid the use of netting, which can entrap birds and other animals. Wild turkeys sometimes forage along the road, so watch for these feathered pedestrians crossing the road without checking for cars.

And look carefully for stragglers as these birds travel in groups. See our tips for watching out for wildlife when behind the wheel.

Ready to learn how to get rid of wild turkeys especially the hungry ones? Have they found a daily banquet in your neighborhood? Do they hang out near the bird feeder, waiting for birdseed to fall? As much as you enjoy watching the wild birds perched on your bird feeder, store the feeder in the shed.

Politely ask your neighbor to stop feeding the turkeys his leftovers. Other potential snacking sources include grass seeds, nut trees, and berry bushes. Cut your grass often, and put a fence around your fruit-bearing plants and garden.

The Humane Society of the United States recommends moving to the top of the turkey pecking order. This way, your neighborhood turkey will be more likely to fear you and less likely to try for dominance or to become a daily nuisance. So, how do you climb to the top?

One method is to introduce unfamiliar objects in the air or throughout the environment. Wild turkeys notice even the smallest changes in their surroundings and are frightened by unusual, unidentifiable objects. Predator kites flying from tall poles are known to scare off turkeys. I gave up! The pair have decided to roost on top of an old Bronco. They refuse to stay anywhere else for the night. Once winter came I tried to no avail to put them in other places out of the weather but the next night they are back to their Bronco.

I put a huge box covered with a tarp. The rooster is easier to persuade to take Shelter but " Horton" remains on the roof through wind, rain snow and sleet, temps as low as 19 degrees, faithful to his Bronco " percent. I cannot reach him or carry him once I get my ladder in place an usually he'll fly away while I'm in the process. I am afraid he will get frostbite. I hopefully have someone coming to make a coop but I'm not sure when or even if he'll come or what he'll charge.

I live alone and up until RA and other bone and problems set in and Age 70 I had no problems taking care of my Critters. It is so hard to accept the fact I can't do what I want to or used to do.

If you have read this far I apologize profusely for the length of this post but I can't sleep at night worrying about my guy. My animals are my everything. Thank you for reading this post and God Bless you. Trusting them to someone else is a very difficult thing for me to do.

Sending you prayers my friend. I have 10 chicken and six turkeys all 16 are about a week old. My turkeys keep pecking at my chickens when they are laying down. Is this behavior ok for this to let all 16 birds stay or should I split them up right now I have them living in my living room because it is cold outside what should I do. The one turkey seems to be the bully to the chickens when they are trying to sleep any help would be greatly appreciated thanks.

In reply to I have 10 chicken and six… by Jack. I have 2 heritage white hens that are now a year old with 6 chickens and all are happy pets on our ranch. They free range during the day and locked up in 10x10 coop at night. The turkeys have been great friends and laid eggs every day or two the past few weeks.

They started chesting up and fighting with each other today for the first time. Any suggestions to get them to knock it off? We were gifted a 4 year old turkey hen. She lays eggs about 4 to 5 times per week. After having her for about 3 months it's now mid spring and she is suddenly nesting and refuses to move off of her nest. She will barely eat. Worse, her last 2 eggs she has either stepped on and broken, or put a hole in with her beak. I know that hens often nest for as long as 28 days.

Is there anything else that I might need to be doing for her? She is a love and gets treats at night lettuce, fruits or veggies and a heatlhy diet each morning with plenty of protein game feed and cat food-her previous owners only fed her cat food. Her water is freshened twice daily. She has a large pen and plenty of roosting poles in her house as well as a run.

We also have chickens but they are in another hen house. Is she lonely, or do I just let this run its course? I'm sorry, I know nothing about turkeys and don't want anything to happen to her. In reply to We were gifted a 4 year old… by Linda.

Shes gone broody,as far as stepping on the eggs I'm sure it's the giant feet. The holes from the beaker I'm not sure about. I'd let her have a few days and see if she has some eggs that aren't broken or cracked and let her do her thing.

I should have asked first,do you have a tom? If not then ignore my advice and ask someone how to break her broody hormonal spree. Or,I gave mygirls some hen eggs that I knew were fertile. She now is sporting 2 tiny chicks and you'd think she won the lottery. Shes a very proud mom! Hello I have been raising a pair of turkeys and this have been a great experience with their personalities.

Daisy use to nip me any chance she could cause she was jealous of me around my husband daddy's girl and Louie would puff up and dance when we sang to him. He loved attention. They use to watch TV cartoons when they were younger. They also were babysat per say by our great Pyrenees dog Aaron he just love them to death would sit by them and keep an eye on them until now for Aaron is sick of them and his feelings are hurt I believe because now that they are mating Luigi and Daisy Lily is trying to pick fights with him all the time he fights with him but doesn't hurt him.