Walked to throw out some leftover seed in thin spots at the house. Get to the field and see a lone hen no poults as she eases in the woods I see a long beard go hobbling in behind her. Apparently he had a bad leg and I’m afraid he won’t make it till season. The last three hens I’ve seen have had no poults and a gimped up gobbler makes me sick.

Dang

Natures a son of a gun

That sucks...I saw 3 hens this weekend with no poults and a big gobbler...not very encouraging about the hens as well

Not good

I saw a pile of little ones this morning

Saw a hen with 5-6 a lil smaller than those in Clarke Cnty yesterday. Went about 20 yrds and there was a hen on the nest. Saturday afternoon I sat at our gate having a drink and heard one gobble about a dozen times on the roost. He gobbled till it was slap dark.

That's a Great pic!

I’ve seen 8-10 hens since may and only one with poults. First of may then none since.

No poults for us either this yr at least not on camera where my two hens stay everyday

Me and the wife seen a hen with 8-10 pouts last week, the were still tweety bird small. Must have been a super late hatch.

I saw some tiny ones a couple weeks ago following mama back and forth across the road. Better late than never.

We had another awesome hatch on the club. Seeing plenty of turkeys while on the property.

Saw 3 hens and some little ones last week in a pasture. They were small barley could see them
In the taller grass.

Awesome!

I have a few poults on cameras and seen a few tracks. Unfortunately I've seen a lot of lone hen tracks also.

Finally saw about 10-12 poults across the rd yesterday afternoon. Neighbor said he’s seen 30-40 I sure hope he’s right.

Seeing 12 makes up for seeing 11 hens with zero.

I posted pics back in May of 3 different groups that used my lawn when the poults were very small. There were 21 poults altogether. I hadn't seen any of them since then, but I saw them twice this week. There were 3 hens and only 8 poults, but they look about half grown.

Of course, I can't be sure these are the same 3 hens, but there's not a lot of turkeys in this area so it certainly could be. I am gonna hope that it's just 2 of the broods that I saw earlier and the other hen is in a separate group somewhere. Everything in the woods wants to eat a poult.