RE: hens....no poults...
I'd leave em alone and not feed em. Sounds like those 3 hens may be pretty close to tame by now if you could walk within 10 yards of em. How long has your dad been feeding them? If they are tame, it seems to me like they would depend on you for everything, even mates to breed with possibly, but I'm no biologist, I'm just a thinker. Nature offers plenty of food for the wild turkey to survive. If you want close interaction with turkeys, learn to think like a turkey and hunt them and blend into the environment, don't feed em so they'll come right onto your back porch with no fear. If they have no fear, they are domesticated and will not follow their natural habits of survival. Let em be wild, let em eat what nature provides, let em interact with other turkeys and breed, learn to hunt em, then blow their heads off and eat em. If you DO decide to continue feedin em and not let nature take it's course, kill em all and eat em anyways, food for us humans may be hard to come by soon if things keep going in the same direction they are now. I'd rather blow their heads off and eat em than pay for groceries these days.
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