Interesting

Unfortunately we are seeing similar results at our lease this year. We have a pretty healthy adult turkey population but have seen very few poults that have survived. We have better than average habitat and removed over 50 nest predators before and during turkey season this year. No poults out of 15 nests is bad!

I find it very interesting they listed the lack of production, but avoid what the causes were. I would suspect the research showed the causes of failure. Hopefully being this is preliminary information there will be more detailed information to follow. If I am not mistaken, Gobbler had more specifics on some these studies and it's showing predation as the #1 failure before and after hatch.

I suspect I had a poor poult recruitment on one of my properties. I have only confirmed two poults sightings and 0 on camera. Hopefully I will be pleasantly surprised this fall when they start showing them selves. I just got this property last summer so there is a lot of work to be done.

I would say depressing.

I hav only seen a few poults or 2 this year. Hope I hav more and I been trapping and will continue - hope I see lot more once I start feeding - hav seen some loan hens in roads or hens in pairs - but they could hav had poults behind them not pictured - but they were not right close behind them in the pics

Coons possums and coyotes. Kill ‘em all.

I haven't seen a poult this year... not sure if I can remember a year where I didn't see one this late in summer. AU's research is interesting and depressing BUT it is a sample of 20 hens, another 20 may have different results. A lot will be confirmed this winter with trapping - if there are a bunch of juvenile hens (doubtful), production was successful. If they find results like this years trapping (20 hens - ALL adults!!!), then no recruitment occurred. As to what ate the eggs and few poults that hatched, I didn't ask. No reason to, its always the same culprits on eggs - coons, rat snakes, possums, maybe a fox or coyote or so. As to poults, they don't know yet but there will be some looking into that. I suspect fox, bobcat, and, especially, hawks. Maybe coons, coyote, etc.

It's time something is done with hawks and owls. Population is out of control.

Crows too. I see more crows now than I ever have before.

I’ve seen a decent amount this year and there’s some good pics posted on this site. And I’ve noticed a trend…….

Predation will always be #1 because most people see their lease as a place to hunt and not a place to manage

We have as small a coon and possum population as you could ask for around my house. But I never see great poults results. I believe flying cats are the problem.

Its got to be snakes. Kill all the snakes and eagles need to go as well.

Auburn did a study for 4 years on Skyline and we got a shortened and later season as a result. I can’t understand doing it all over again.

Dang, I've seen more poults this year than I have in a while. I ran a bunch out of the chufas yesterday and was thinking of making a scare crow to keep them out before the chufas mature. Maybe I better just let them eat and not worry about it.

I saw a group about 3 weeks ago there were already close to grown. I have no idea why so many others are not seeing any.

I’ve seen a good many, 4 different groups on places I hunt

Based on hour place there generally seems to be a good crop of jakes every year