Wild Turkeys in Sask.

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Not sure if this post should go here or in the hunting forum but I'm wondering if one saw a wild turkey in Saskatchewan, are you allowed to shoot it. Since there is no season and I don't know if they're considered big game or not here, I was wondering about the legalities.
 
savagelh said:
Not sure if this post should go here or in the hunting forum but I'm wondering if one saw a wild turkey in Saskatchewan, are you allowed to shoot it. Since there is no season and I don't know if they're considered big game or not here, I was wondering about the legalities.
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If you see a wild turkey It means someone has released it,trying to establish a wild population.This has been tried a couple of times and someone always wants to shoot them.
So what do YOU want One turkey dinner or a sustainable population and more dinners.
 
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Ive got 25 of the bastards on my farm pissin me off........crappin, yappin and making my dog mad......we are allowed to shoot one in the spring and one in the fall only..........i wonder if they taste good.......sure are ugly
 
There were lots of turkeys in the cypress hills ,sask side years ago.cabin owners complained continuously and all of a sudden they fanished.there is a few left but there numbers are watched closely i think.
 
Turkeys are a non-migratory bird species.We have then in Southern Manitoba up as far as the Whiteshell area (no s%$t....seen them)so you would think a population could establish itself in Sask. with proper stocking efforts and habitat.

BB
 
my father tried to raise some when i was a kid. They die a lot :). I think they would be very borderline for surviving Sask winters without someone to shelter them. Turkeys don't migrate like ducks or geese.
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Turkeys do best in hardwood forests with nuts to eat - Oak, Hazelnut etc. They are marginal in Saskatchewan, partly due to habitat, mostly due to our severe winters. They are protected here. The basic rule in Sask. is, if it is not a game bird, and is not "crow, magpie, blackbird, starling, english sparrow or barn pigeon" it is protected.
My family business is a turkey farm, in years past we hatched wild turkeys a few times for the Sask Wildlife Federation branches in Weyburn and a couple other places. As far as I know those introduction attempts all failed.
 
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Turkeys do best in hardwood forests with nuts to eat - Oak, Hazelnut etc. They are marginal in Saskatchewan, partly due to habitat, mostly due to our severe winters. They are protected here. The basic rule in Sask. is, if it is not a game bird, and is not "crow, magpie, blackbird, starling, english sparrow or barn pigeon" it is protected.
My family business is a turkey farm, in years past we hatched wild turkeys a few times for the Sask Wildlife Federation branches in Weyburn and a couple other places. As far as I know those introduction attempts all failed.
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Our club, Dirt Hills Wildlife are in the process of tring to stock some turkeys. Purchased some last year, kept to hopefully get them to nest. There is definatly a spit feeling about them here in southern saskatchewan
 
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We have quite a few in the South-Central part of Manitoba.
They hang out near the river and creek valleys with some oak on the South-facing slopes. They have been invading some of the towns, just like the whitetails. Whatever they find to eat, makes them very tasty :)

Your high coyote population in Sask probably doesn't help.
 
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We had a nice batch of Merriams started up here but the neighbors got greedy and shot them out-they roost out in the open in the coldest weather. I'm sure we could have a huntable population fairly quickly id people would back off on shooting them.
 
A few years ago, some kids were shooting them with pellet guns and the CO's were called. The CO's told the kids to stop, but said there was nothing they could really do about it as they are not in any way protected.
We see quite a few of them around here. Have always considered picking one off for supper.
 
The Wild Turkey does migrate only from summer to wintering grounds. This could be a very short distance and it could be a number of miles between. As what was said about food source, they like to eat and need water....
 
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