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Started by guesswho, January 30, 2013, 06:32:41 PM

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guesswho

Do turkeys make any visible rutting signs during their breeding period?  Like deer make rubs and scrapes, do turkeys make anything?  If so what time of year should they start showing up?
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BigHooks

Don't you remember Ronny,Have to tell ya ever year. When they make that sound in the tree an fly down. Then they make that weird noise an there tail flairs open an there wings drag the ground. That my be the ones that are in pain, I can't remember eather!!!!!!

jblackburn

Boss gobblers will find cedar trees that are exactly 2.75 inches in diameter 12 inches from the ground and rub there spurs to sharpen them.  This action "excites" the tom to the point he has to repeatedly do the "ground stomp" until he has relieved the tension.  You can easily identify these trees by the "sticky" leaves/needles around the base.   :turkey2:


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Skeeterbait

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Only thing I know of that would qualify as breeding sign would be wing drag marks.  A set of turkey tracks with fine lines on the ground on both sides is where a strutting gobbler drug the tips of his primary wing feathers.  If you find a concentration of other turkey sign in the area then you may have found a preferred strutting and breeding area.  Lot easier to kill a gobbler if you can be where he wants to go.

Old Gobbler

Ive seen gobblers do a scrape,  on my legs   , they tend to do this when I stand on their head
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BOFF

I always noticed the gobblers "J" shaped poo straightens out when it gets to be that time.


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socalturkeyman

Quote from: BOFF on January 30, 2013, 11:42:21 PM
I always noticed the gobblers "J" shaped poo straightens out when it gets to be that time.


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longspur

when the hens go in estrus they find a toms scrape and put a popcorn pile in it.

redarrow

Quote from: BOFF on January 30, 2013, 11:42:21 PM
I always noticed the gobblers "J" shaped poo straightens out when it gets to be that time.


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TrackeySauresRex

I do notice the road kill goes up. Just like in the deer season.
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BowBendr

I don't know, but I poured out 2 bottles of hen-in-heat last season and somethin' tore the ground up all over that 1/2 acre woodlot I was a huntin'.

turkey_slayer

Whenever I hear a squealing hen then I know its the peak of the rut.

longspur

"here's your sign"

jblackburn

 
Quote from: turkey_slayer on January 31, 2013, 09:30:59 PM
Whenever I hear a squealing hen then I know its the peak of the rut.

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I wish I would have thought of that!  :TooFunny:
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Quote from: guesswho on January 30, 2013, 06:32:41 PM
Do turkeys make any visible rutting signs during their breeding period?  Like deer make rubs and scrapes, do turkeys make anything?  If so what time of year should they start showing up?

Ask Your Mom.   ;)