Turkeys and deer outside my brother’s house.

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My brother has counted up to eighteen hens and poults in the front and on the side yards. They are acclimated to humans and cars. They roost in the oaks behind his house. They are eating birdseed from the bird feeders just out of site. They have an abundance of hummingbirds also.

My brothers side yard driveway where he parks his travel trailer. You are looking down into a creek that borders his property. He has said there have been up to six does and fawns.

16 thoughts on “Turkeys and deer outside my brother’s house.”

  2. I foresee trouble if the turkeys and hummingbirds cross-breed, those wings will be needing to do an awful lot of work!

  3. I really hate those turkeys. They are so destructive to gardens, landscaping, and indigenous ground-nesting birds. Last year I went out one morning and there were 59 of them in my barnyard and my grape vines that were just about ready to pick were stripped bare along with much of my garden. Their range has expanded far beyond the historical areas due to people feeding them and hunters using bait piles–ken

    • Normally, I’d say shoot, shovel and shut up but you’d need a backhoe to solve that problem.

      Locally, we had two hens that hatched out seven apiece and one underachiever who only hatched out five. They’ve all survived. It’s like having a backyard full of psychotic clowns. Obviously, we need more coyotes and bobcats.

      • Ken Smith and WWW, am I seeing this from a vastly different perspective to you blokes?
        I thought that Yanks liked eating turkey? After first obtaining said bird, just apply heat until cooked to your preference, then eat! Where’s the problem?
        If shooting noise will upset neighbours, then use a muffler, or trap the birds one or two at a time. Just set a rabbit trap with grains sprinkled over the trip, but check it often so you’re not losing that healthy meat to predators.
        When you’re plucking the birds, set the different types of feathers aside by colouration and variations. Sell them to hunters and fly-tying fishermen.

        • It’s a question of volume. Johno m’lad. Eating them every day becomes too boring.

          Lemme ‘splain. Do you Aussies eat kangaroo every meal, or do you alternate between roo and koala, with the occasional platypus? And riddle me this: is a vegemite fur, fish or fowl? We don’t have vegemite’s this far north, although we certainly have far too many catamites in places like San Fran-freak-show.

    • Thanks Bear Claw, I thought young turkeys were called pullets like chicks, I learned me a valuable lesson by your hand, a poult… I changed it.

    • Southern Oregon, west of the Cascades. Prickly Pear will grow there, but is certainly not a native species.

  7. All those Turkeys look like a bunch of congress members standing around and doing nothing. Like normal.

  9. A high end pellet rifle and turkey for dinner 3 or 4 times a year. A ruger from wally world works for my son.

  11. Counted 127 turkeys in a neighbors yard a few years ago, she had a automatic deer feeder set up to feed them.

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