Turkey Hen Fighting
Late one morning during the turkey hunting season, I was watching the rain drops drip from my hat when something caught my eye. A hen turkey had walked onto the field. Shortly afterwards, there were six hens in total.
As I watched in hopes that a rainy gobbler would appear, the hens began carrying on among themselves. Apparently the dominate hen became offended for some reason and began chasing some of the other hens around. This seemed to be some sort of a pecking order issue.
Suddenly, the dominate hen jumped up, started flapping her wings, and began kicking at one of the other hen turkeys. Then the fight was on. Back and forth they went, leaves and feathers flying. I tried to capture some of the footage on my cell phone. The visual didn’t turn out to good but the audio was awesome.
Although I never saw a gobbler, I did have a great learning experience with the hens. The fight lasted about two minutes and the losing hen walked away with a distinguished limp.
