Re: Tman Turkey Poult Survey
[Re: Swamp Wolf]
#8169053
07/09/24 02:13 PM
07/09/24 02:13 PM
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coondagger2
"Brat"
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"Brat"
Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 2,427
NC - Here there and everywhere
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If you guys followed my posts during turkey season you'll know I had a hen that I suspected to be sitting on eggs before season started. I enjoy working the timeline backwards to see when our local birds were in their peak breeding. This pic was taken June 27th this year. 3 mommas with 14 little ones. They were already right between grouse and pheasant sized, probably 7 weeks then, so 9 weeks old now. This puts their hatch the week of May 9th (during turkey season). If she incubated for 28 days that means she was done laying April 11th, meaning she was likely bred the week of March 25th. That particular week we had a warm snap, a 20 degree warm up. Temps went from highs in the 50's and lows in the 20's and 30's to highs in the 70's and lows in the 40's and 50's. I'd say with a pretty high level of confidence that the warm snaps we had in March led to some pretty early breeding for central NC. Hunting late season this year felt even more difficult than normal, and I wonder if that was due to the turkeys already being "farther along" than normal. It was like hunting June turkeys on a normal year.
Gotta live up to the nickname...
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Re: Tman Turkey Poult Survey
[Re: Swamp Wolf]
#8169307
07/09/24 07:21 PM
07/09/24 07:21 PM
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Posts: 2,299 chelsea,wi
keets
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trapper
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chelsea,wi
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I saw a hen with 3 really little ones yesterday morning out by my place....hustling right along
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Re: Tman Turkey Poult Survey
[Re: Swamp Wolf]
#8170094
07/10/24 10:29 PM
07/10/24 10:29 PM
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Posts: 373 Northern KY
huntcook
trapper
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trapper
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Posts: 373
Northern KY
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I saw my first one Sunday looked like maybe a two to three day old chick I figured it was a late hatch maybe nest was destroyed and she renested.
Government making sin legal does not make it right.
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Re: Tman Turkey Poult Survey
[Re: Swamp Wolf]
#8172216
07/13/24 04:46 PM
07/13/24 04:46 PM
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snowy
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trapper
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Posts: 12,088
MT
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I haven't seen a hen or any young. I still toms and jakes when I go to the ranch. Last year at this time I seen alot of hens with poults.
Give me a fish, I will eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I will eat for a lifetime
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