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the turkeys eat small yellow flowers. when you cut a bird open they are usually full of them.
well what are they? i dont have any on the farm i hunt now and would like to plant them .thanks :confused:
 
Can't tell you the name, or even if it is actually the same plant(flower), but there is a yellow flowering weed, that grows in the bottoms, usually in the open, that has yellow flowers on stalks, maybe a foot and half high. It usually blooms a little later in the spring, but during the turkey season. In fact, we have always associated its blooming with turkey season. In my neck of the woods, it has always been refered to as "yellow top". Imagine that! LOL
 
Buttercups probably here in East TN. I am not usually concerned with what they are eating, and most gobblers are empty anyway during the season.
 
The plant you are talking about is either a wild mustard or goldenrod. I usually see them growing in a crop field if it hasn't been disked up since the fall. Turkeys love them!
 
As mentioned there are several yellow flowers in the springtime, but I lay my money on wild mustard. Turkeys really like them. Right height to eat also - about 18 inches tall.
 
thanks. usually when you cut a gobbler open they are full of them.
i have trouble keeping the birds on the hill at my farm and they seem to love these small yellow flowers. maybe i can get them growing if i can find some to plant.
 
4onaside said:
Can't tell you the name, or even if it is actually the same plant(flower), but there is a yellow flowering weed, that grows in the bottoms, usually in the open, that has yellow flowers on stalks, maybe a foot and half high. It usually blooms a little later in the spring, but during the turkey season. In fact, we have always associated its blooming with turkey season. In my neck of the woods, it has always been refered to as "yellow top". Imagine that! LOL
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April "yellow tops" from the swamp bottom area where I hunt. I find it hard to believe the turkeys would eat these, but I sure don't know.

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The primary yellow flower found everywhere in fields in spring turkey season, in our region, anyway, is what jackscreek and ruger have posted about..."yellowtop."

Don't know if they eat 'em...but I have heard many turkey hunters use 'em as a sign like crappie anglers use dogwoods. "It (turkey hunting) will get right, when those yellowtops bloom out, just wait..."
Don't know if there is a connection or not...with the dogwoods and the crappie spawn, it is a temp achieved...likely the same with yellowtop bloom.
Anglers also mention it has a gauge or guide to specific fishing biting.
Anything to it? Don't know for sure.
 
utfan1 said:
heres a pic. hard to tell too much but its all i have. Low to the ground, small yellow flowers, its impossible to tell from the picture, but I believe that dwarf cinquefoil would be a good guess. Supposedly turkeys love cinquefoils. But then again, turkeys love just about anything. The old deal about, don't concern yourself with what they eat, just what they don't eat. A whole lot less effort and simpler.



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thats it.cinquefoils aka buttercup.....where i hunt the birds are full of them.
i have a hill top field the birds bypass for low ground and looking for a way to keep them longer up high. thanks,will let you know in a few months if it worked .
 
And to Ruger, Taylor and Jackscreek(great pictures), what we all call yellowtop is Butterweed(actual common name). Researching all of the yellow blooms caused me to seek that one out also. Only for your info, because to this old timer, it will forever be yellowtop. Why change? Every turkey hunter in West Tennessee knows it by that name.
 

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