Turkey calling.

[pitw]

You guys know I don't have any wild turkeys to work with my calls but we learned something else this morning.  Went out to the chicken pen and Don started using the slate call [he's the only one makes a decent sound out of it yet] and the whole flock went absolutely silent.  The turkeys stood looking at where the sound was coming from[way cool].  Then Bob kicked in with the box call [making hen type sounds] and a 17 day old Tom immediately started strutting his stuff.  Kinda neat to see what different sounds do to the birds even if they are a bit of a captive audience.

[alscalls]

  Thats what I am doing wrong.........I should be looking in your yard........and letting Don do my calling....

[golfertrout]

 

[FinsnFur]

I'm confused
You went to the chicken pen and Don started using the slate call and the whole flock went absolutely silent.  The turkeys stood looking at where the sound was coming from.

You got turkeys in your chicken pen? Or the chickens acted this way?

[pitw]

Jim we keep our chickens and turkeys together,  248 birds[26 turkeys] went absolutely silent when Don scratched that call.  Never seen them do that with any other sound but a Hawk whistle. 

[FinsnFur]

ahhhh.
So tell me, you ever get any chikurkeys out of the deal?

[Hidehunter]

I believe the correct term is turkens