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  • From: Rondi Anderson <nafex@mokalive.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Wild turkeys, mice & voles
  • Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 00:44:53 -0500

My Black Spanish and Bronze and the free range chickens for that matter would love baby and small mice/rodents for lunch any day! Also baby bobwhite and frogs and grasshoppers make good snacks too.

Rondi
On May 3, 2004, at 9:47 PM, nafex-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:


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Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 22:46:53 EDT
From: Jwlehman@aol.com
Subject: [NAFEX] Wild turkeys, mice & voles.
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After the e/m advising wild turkeys ate mice & voles I send an e/m to the
Indiana Dept. of Natural Resources to confirm.

Here was the reply:

Subj: Wild turkeys, mice, and moles 
Date: 5/3/2004 11:39:55 AM US Eastern Standard Time
From: sbacks@dnr.state.in.us
To: Jwlehman@aol.com

Dear Jerry,

To my knowledge I have never seen mice or voles listed as a food item in any
study regarding the food habits of wild turkeys.  Wild turkeys do like to eat
invertebrates (insects, spiders, etc) when they are available.  I would not be
surprised that once
in a blue moon a wild turkey might ingest a small mouse or vole in mistaking
it for some caterpillar or grub but I certainly don't think they would
actively seek them out as a prey item.  You would be better off encouraging
foxes, and weasels than wild turkeys if mole and voles were a problem.

Thanks for your inquiry,

Steve Backs
Wild turkey Project Leader




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