151P - How a Wild Turkey Hen Chooses a Mate with Rich Buchholz

The Turkey Hunter Podcast with Andy Gagliano & Cameron Weddington | Turkey Hunting Tips, Strategies, and Stories

Andy Gagliano

Hobbies, Wilderness, Leisure, Sports

4.6 • 547 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

How a Wild Turkey Hen Chooses a Mate with Dr. Richard Buchholz This week I have Dr. Richard Buchholz on the show to talk about how a wild turkey hen chooses a mate. Dr. Buchholz has dedicated his career to studying mating behavior in the wild turkey, and we talk about some of the factors that have been tested in Dr. Buchholz studies and experiments. We also discuss some of his findings as well. We talk about snood length, caruncles, beards, spurs, coloration, skull cap width, and many other factors that may have to do with why a hen chooses a male turkey to breed with. We discuss that the hen uses those aspects of a gobbler's appearance to determine his healthiness and his ability to pass on good genetics to the hen's offspring. Listen in and learn a little more about these amazing birds and their mating behaviors with Dr. Buchholz.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the turkey hunter podcast with me, your host, Andy Galliano.
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1:11.7	at Turkey Hitman, and I will be sure to follow you back. And now, for this week's show.
1:19.9	Hello and welcome back to this week's episode of the Turkey Hunter podcast. You are listening to
1:26.0	episode number 151,
1:29.3	How a Wild Turkey Henn Selects a Mate with Dr. Richard Buckles.
1:35.4	And I am your host and the guy who had just an amazing day Saturday.
1:43.7	And I'll tell you a little bit more about my Saturday in just a moment, but right this very second, we are 182 days.
1:52.0	Yes, that's just over six months.
1:56.0	182 days, 11 hours, 16 minutes, and 57 seconds away from opening day of spring turkey season
2:06.0	in Alabama. So I've got a long interview for you guys today. So I'm going to jump on into the
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