That's amazing Hazel!
How old you reckon' those poults are?
If at 1st you don't succeed, try, try again!
How old you reckon' those poults are?
If at 1st you don't succeed, try, try again!
That was in the river bottom that flooded multiple times thru mid June. It is getting hard to keep up with all the hens after three years of great hatches. The first year i was confident that 11 of the 14 remaining hens were able to raise a brood after no pouts had been produced in 2 years. Those pouts produced 52 pouts when all their eggs did not get sucked. THE HEN NESTING SUCCESS WAS ALSO WAY ABOVE WHAT THE MO SNAP SHOTS ARE GIVING FROM A AREA WITH A SERIOUS DIVERSITY ROBBING RACOON PROBLEM.That's amazing Hazel!
How old you reckon' those poults are?
If at 1st you don't succeed, try, try again!
Those roosting sized birds have good survival possibilities. I've only seen 9 do far this year , but they were all flying sized poults. You have a welcomed sight there.We were getting turkey pics almost daily on our fields with no poults in sight and just on this pull for the last two weeks there are poults with the hens in almost every pic. Happy to see them now, I guess they were just hidden in the beans in the past pics. View attachment 143185
What county?Yesterday morning seen a hen with four almost as big as her, been the best hatch we've had in years.
Why where else but the Kingdom of Callaway of courseWhat county?
Do you have a survey card?Why where else but the Kingdom of Callaway of course
Been seeing a lot of poults, those where the first I'd seen that size, I'd say they were a month ahead of a lot of the poults I've seen.
If you don't have a card someone with one can probably put all your zeros on theirs.Ain't seen a single poult. The summer PHR for me is about 20:0 or worse (don't do the survey). Obviously some multiple sightings in that number, but a heck of a bunch aren't Talked to a few folks who have seen a few poults. Overall though the hatch sucked yet again. Statewide will be <1:1. Probably about 0.7-0.8:1