Musta been a horse thief

[highPlains]

You guys ever seen this before? This is in Wisconsin, found this gobbler quite a few years ago and came across the pictures. I thought I would share.

As you can see, he was hung by his neck all that way up in the tree.

 

 

 

[Killdeer]

People just give me the willies sometimes.

Killdeer  

[bolong]

That is very strange. Never saw that before. Perhaps a gun hunter shot him on the roost and he got hung up. Lightning strike? Maybe just a heart attack. This might be an interesting thread.

[gudspelr]

Perhaps we're overthinking this?  I can certainly imagine the turkey distraught over getting older, not having enough 'product' to keep the balding spots from getting bigger, losing those oh so good looking hens to a younger, stronger Tom...maybe he felt it was just time to throw in the towel before a mean hunter did it for him?

Sorry, couldn't resist  


Jeremy

[ALW]

I'm betting he glided right into the fork of that branch and got hung up.  They aren't the most graceful in flight!

Aaron

[Hawkeye]

Reminds me of the pop song from a few years ago... "You had a bad day..."

Bummer of a roost.

[OkKeith]

Turkeys crash and burn as often as any other critter that flies. I have seen a few tangled in grapevine and virginia creeper vines. We had a hen on our hunting property for years that wore a tangle of bailing twine.

Just like deer getting hung up in fences or bucks bound up with each other, or in tree branches. Life is tough, regaurdless of what Disney says in the movies.

OkKeith

[Keefer]

I think it was "Gang" related! Bet he used some Fowl language around some chicks and the fella's took him out back and beat the feathers out of him...That or the Mrs. Nagging got to him...  :rolleyes:

[WESTBROOK]

I think he was sleeping a litle too sound and fell outa bed.

Eric

[Cherokee Scout]

Did the turkey leave a note?

[Oliverstacy]

Feel bad for him...not really.  :rolleyes:  

I HATE TURKEYS!!!

Josh

[k. sisco]

I raise wild eastern turkeys and have seen some strange things.
I came home once and a jake was hanging on my front porch,we had a bamboo blind up and the bird somehow got the string around his neck and foot.
And everytime he kicked his leg it strangeled him...well quess what he strangled himself and it was harder to do that than just stop and let the string slide off his foot.
Needless to say they aren't the smartest animals around.
Im sure this bird done something as equally stupid.

[huntnut]

The MOB did it LMAO

[vermonster13]

He was trying to impress the hens by doing some chin-ups. Hard to do without thumbs and all.

[sagebrush]

I saw a picture of a cow elk once that hung itself in the crotch of a tree. Gary

[ArkyBob]

I think he couldn't bare the thougt of mating season coming to an end!!!  When you only got a couple of months, you never know.....

BOB

[Bowferd]

And I was just about to ask: Why would he do that?
Bob, you answered my question. Been there, done that, still plowing.

[Shakes.602]

THAT  just might be the way I would ever get one of them Critters!!  :rolleyes:       Ol' Tom had a  BAD DAY!!!      

[bowslinger]

I'm thinking it was a triple-dog dare by his buddies.

"Bet you can't hang from your chin in the fork of a tree!!"

[jason1040]

That is one of the craziest things that I had seen. The other toms must have strung him up when they found out that he had been rustling their hens. It just goes to show you that they don't take kindly to hen thieves.