How to get turkey onto your property
12-18-2012, 04:02 PM
#8
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: South eastern tennessee
Posts: 171
If you have clearings we plant clover and they love it and look for turkey poop prints feathers skratchins and listen right before dark and early in the morning for them if they are near you will hear them they are loud little things and listen for any noise during the day very closely they don't make a whole lotta noise during the reagular day but you might just hear one. Hope that helps
12-18-2012, 05:08 PM
#9
Typical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location:
Posts: 506
Not exactly sure how. But about 10 years ago there were no turkeys on the property I hunt. I set a corn feeder in an area I wanted to use as a deer sanctuary. About 2 years later I got a pic of one hen. Then a tom. Then a few more hens. Two springs ago or about 6 years after putting out the feeder I had about 30 turkeys at the feeder in the spring and each spring since they seem to be growing in number.
12-19-2012, 08:26 AM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Missouri
Posts: 1,093
Roost areas and food sources would be a good place to start. Not sure where you live but there are several things to do. Turkeys love food plots just like deer. I feed corn to the turkeys on our farms from now until about March 15th. Do controlled burns in the timber, this opens it up which creates more feeding opportunity b/c of native grasses and improves strutting ground. Predators are another key to having good turkey numbers. Trap as many coons and possums as you can. We bought a 100 acre farm several years ago and we would only see 7-12 turkeys on it for a couple years. I had a guy tell me to start working on the predators and I would see a big increase in my flock. The first year I trapped or shot 100 possums and 35 coons. We now have 50-75 birds on that farm every year.
