From Minnesotas DNR website.......lol. Stay bold........
Aggressive Turkeys
Remember that wild turkeys have a "pecking order" and that habituated birds may respond to you as they do to another turkey. The best defense against aggressive or persistent turkeys is to prevent the birds from becoming habituated in the first place by being bold to them. Everyone in the neighborhood must do the same; it will be ineffective if you do so only on your property. Each and every turkey must view all humans as dominant in the pecking order and respond to them as superiors rather than subjects. Habituated turkeys may attempt to dominate or attack people that the birds view as subordinates.
Adult humans may drive off or deter these aggressive birds with bold action by forcefully fending them off with brooms or other non-injurious implements. However, the turkey may then recognize that individual as dominant but continue to respond to other people as subordinates.
Turkeys which repeatedly challenge or attack children or elderly persons or otherwise threaten public safety may ultimately have to be destroyed. Keep turkeys wild to avoid these consequences.
Trapping and relocating "nuisance" turkeys is not an option. The methods used to trap turkeys in remote areas are often impractical or ineffective in urban or suburban areas due to safety or disturbance. Released turkeys may also continue their inappropriate actions where they are released or may move substantial distances to other suburban sites.
Wow.. and now we know why Les shoots them so easy. Its in self defense!~
The turkeys are so tame and plentiful that they get AGGRESSIVE ATTACK folks..in NEIGHBORHOODS!
The dang neighbors have to get on the same page and run them off with pots and pans like in the north with bears!
They probably even have to carry a little can of mace like in the bear woods.
Sounds like they are so aggressive they had to form neighborhood watches!
We all better get up there and kill some..just to save the children up there from those aggressive nuisances!
