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Old 12-13-2013, 07:03 PM
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firelt72
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Couple of issues besides the law. The biggest being the raised turkeys would become easy prey for the predators out there. They are not trained to be safe. There is a book called Illuminations in the Flat Woods, By Joe Hutto. He raised wild turkey poults, but was able to imprint them and not exposed them more than he had too to humans. The birds did well enough, but he lost a bunch of them too. There are disease issues too, where a raised tame bird may carry something a wild bird isn't used too and now you have zero turkeys instead of the white on.
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