I was out walking the farm today and in a small 1/2 acre part of the field i found 16 turkey tail feathers. Is this good or bad? Where did they come from? Is it from the toms fighting? I know its a lot of questions but i just knot understand where all of these feathers came from because they were not there a few days ago.

well...... with that many feathers it sounds like one has been eaten........ probly a yote or a fox and if you predator hunt i suppose its a good sign .. . . . . . turkey huntin is another story and i'd try predator hunting around there before the hens start settin and raising poults

well i thought that too but there were no small feathers around only tail feathers. And I was yote hunting there just the other day, nothing!

id say either fighting or one got eaten or poached

prabably got eaten and dragged off

was it all in one spot or all over the place?

I saw the same thing last spring, and wasnt sure what it could have been. I found around 10 tail fan feathers on the backside of a log in a recently timbered lot. My guess is that a fox got him, because I had seen foxes around while hunting, but im not sure why only fan feathers would be left. I looked around but couldnt find a carcass anywhere. The feathers were spread out in about a 5 foot radius.

if turkey tail feathers came out that bad from just fighting with another gobbler then i don't think there would be one single tom in the woods with a tail left ya know i'd think it would be much more common to find feather blows like that too so i'd keep after the dogs around there

Strange!

well these feathers were not just in one place, they were spred all over the field