The turkey was shot to death during the encounter Sunday afternoon on the front porch of a home in the small town of Bogart.
Jackson County sheriff's officials say the deputy was dispatched to the home on Georgia Highway 330 by a resident who said a turkey on her front porch was refusing to leave.
The Athens Banner-Herald reports that the deputy got the turkey off the porch, but then it charged him.
A sheriff's report says the deputy used the broom to fend off the turkey, but it attacked the broom and the deputy said he had no choice but to shoot it.
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