AU Seeker
Bronze Member
- Joined
- Oct 14, 2007
- Messages
- 1,607
- Reaction score
- 1,657
- Golden Thread
- 0
- Location
- South Carolina
- Detector(s) used
- E-Track, MXT, CZ6A
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Diet:Omnivores.
Turkeys will eat insects, salamanders, small frogs, and plants. Their diet changes seasonally.
Spring: They’ll eat nearly any available plant, such as grass shoots; sedges; buds, flowers, and leaves of shrubs and trees; the roots, tubers, and bulbs of perennials;dried fruits; and nuts.
Spring and summer: High-protein foods, such as insects, spiders, centipedes, millipedes, snails, and slugs are critical to their poults. Adults eat those foods, as well as grasses, seeds, salamanders and frogs.
Late summer: Grasshoppers, beetles, crickets, and the fruits and seeds of nearly any plant.
Fall: just about any nut or fruit crop, including acorns,beechnuts, hazelnuts, wild cherries, and grapes; waste grain; insects; salamanders, and frogs.
Winter: Nuts and seeds; grains, including corn; insects;and snails. They’ll often feed where deer have pawed through deep snow and in corn fields, especially if manure was spread on the field, and in spring seeps."
