That's real easy to define to you. Find a mirror, look at reflection.

Well....... lmao

I am still pushing to get our 6 bird limit back, I wouldn't care if they bumped it up to 8,or 10!!!!!

do you remember what years the six bird limit was in effect??

Year I had...I ain't earned that honor

At least a couple of you guys understand what I meant.

Not rite off hand,but somewhere around 90,or 91 I believe .

I am not even sure it was state wide,but I can look back,and see.

Why would folks "hate" turkeys? Seems weird. I'm not aware they do anything bad to people or the land they inhabit. Are they worried about them scratching up their garden/farm seed or something?

I don’t hate turkeys but I have cussed them before.

It's mostly farmers that I run across that bad mouth them, so I suppose they destroy crops and pull corn stalks down all the time. I know most of the corn in the areas that we hunt are harvested in the fall and sent to ethanol plants in the area. I noticed this year that there were huge rows of harvested corn laying on the ground with a huge tarp like thing over it. I'm talking about a pile of corn 4 feet high and 200 yards long, so I'm thinking this corn tarp thing is probably not cheap. Then as you drive by it you can see holes ripped in the tarp with corn spilling out of the holes. I've seen turkeys at these holes so I guess it's not out of the realm of possibility that they are the one doing the damage although I would think the deer would be the culprits ripping the holes. Also they have a time with turkeys in the spring when it's planting time. Those farmers use round up ready seed corn that has some sort of red coating on it and is super expensive. When they seed those fields it's like ringing the dinner bell for the turkeys. They will camp in a field all day and strut and eat seed corn.

When you run across a non farmer fussing about turkeys you generally hear that they are all over the roads and you have to stop and get out and shoo them out of the roads.

Crows do a lot more corn damage than turkeys.
Crows will pull up every single sprout.

Farmer told us when the corn got 2 or 3 inches tall the turkeys would go all the way down a row and pull it up and eat the kernel off the bottom. So yeah it's the farmers that don't like them.

They barely have any crows up there and I've only seen a handful in over a decade of hunting in Nebraska. Usually in a week of hunting I will put eyes on over 1000 turkeys and I may see 1 crow.

You didn't say it was Nebraska. But I still didn't realize there were no crows there.

they have magpies there, just black and white crows.....

I've seen them do it here with a pumpkin/gourd patch. 3/4 of an acre patch, over 100 hills planted by hand in laid out rows and they cleaned it out in 2 days. Only time I've ever been mad at turkeys for eating something on my place.

I've never had turkeys dig up cotton seed but corn,soybeans, peanuts heck they'll get on the row and play hell on fresh planted seed. It can be aggravating as hell

There's a few there but not like we have here. They may be more populated in other parts of the state though.

I've heard farmers in the Midwest complaining about this too. I've had a lot of trouble with them doing the same to chufas, to the point that I had to replant. They are especially bad when you plant in rows, and that was the main reason I quit planting that way.

In some places in the Midwest, it's common to bale wheat and just leave it in the field, then open up a bale at a time for the cows. And of course the turkeys will destroy some of the bales before they get opened and that makes them real unpopular. Seeing that happen made me even think about hiring someone to bale wheat for me. I'm sure I would not be able to find a buyer, so I would just have to leave the bales in the field. That's just Normal Agricultural Practice.

It's amazing what a difference in attitudes we get with a 5 bird limit.