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Sat on a huge pasture with Binos this morning hoping to catch a lonely gobbler which I didn’t. I did see 7 hens and 6 had poults and the lone hen had 4 jakes dogging her. I believe this super dry spring has made for a good hatch this year. I got to thinking all these hens hadn’t been with a gobbler in over a month. This was in TN.
"The Heavens declare the glory of God;and the firmament sheweth his handiwork" Pslam 19:1
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Freak of Nature
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They dont need a gobbler but once, they store his spem and can use it to nest multiple times.
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Booner
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They dont need a gobbler but once, they store his spem and can use it to nest multiple times. 👍🏻I figured the poults were about a week old. 35 days since these hens starting sitting on the nest all the time. I figure hen without poults had nest destroyed and starting over. I believe this has been one of the driest turkey season I can remember which is a good thing for several reasons.
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"The Heavens declare the glory of God;and the firmament sheweth his handiwork" Pslam 19:1
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They dont need a gobbler but once, they store his spem and can use it to nest multiple times. 👍🏻I figured the poults were about a week old. 35 days since these hens starting sitting on the nest all the time. I figure hen without poults had nest destroyed and starting over. I believe this has been one of the driest turkey season I can remember which is a good thing for several reasons. Actually 28 days she sits.
Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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They dont need a gobbler but once, they store his spem and can use it to nest multiple times. 👍🏻I figured the poults were about a week old. 35 days since these hens starting sitting on the nest all the time. I figure hen without poults had nest destroyed and starting over. I believe this has been one of the driest turkey season I can remember which is a good thing for several reasons. Actually 28 days she sits. 28 +7=35
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Saw a hen this morning on the side of the road just north of Kent that had a bunch of quail sized poults with her
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Booner
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Had some on the lawn this morning; first poults of the year. Last year we had 3 different broods that used the lawn for their first few days. I know that we have more hens around this year, so I am hoping for more than that It's a good excuse for me to not mow the grass. 
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Not poults, but saw my first baby antelope today. Joker looked about as tall as a crow running behind it’s mother. Pretty neat. Two weeks ago and it wouldn’t have faired too well with the 47” of snow.
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Still waiting on a sighting. Last year had 3 hens with poults I saw pretty regular along with 2 coveys of quail with young birds.
"Cull" is just another four letter word...
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Booner
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Still waiting on a sighting. Last year had 3 hens with poults I saw pretty regular along with 2 coveys of quail with young birds. We’ve had them as far north in the state as you can go for 2 weeks.
"The Heavens declare the glory of God;and the firmament sheweth his handiwork" Pslam 19:1
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I saw 4 poults "quail sized" like CNC said, with a hen on Taylor's Ferry Rd around the Oak Grove area last Thursday, midday.
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Went to spray a small field to get ready for chufla - finally going to try to plant chufla - i ran 2 hens out and saw 2 poults about quail size fly off - hopefully several were there that just ran out - all were at edge of field in thigh high grass - my first sightings
I ain’t seen jakes here in 2 years - got bunch hens here n deer and first of turkey - had 4-5 gobbler before season - They left for most of Turkey - hope to get some new blood jakes here
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Ran into a gobbler with a hen in Grant yesterday.
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I had a hen on camera this morning with five little ones. I hope they make it
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As I hav trapped this week - seeing some large hawks sit around thinned timber - notice them every day - wonder if they hunting poults - I hav not had a Jake going on 3 years
Hunt the wind - leave it better than you found it - love your neighbor as you love your self
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Poults were on the run this morning in the wet ditches as I traveled to Church . This is Osceola NWR.
I see this every year. I think they need to get out in the open a little.
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As I hav trapped this week - seeing some large hawks sit around thinned timber - notice them every day - wonder if they hunting poults - I hav not had a Jake going on 3 years The hawks are out of control, they definitely need thinned out.
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^^^^
I noticed them every day in - seeing multiple per trip in woods and I think they getting more than I had thought
Hunt the wind - leave it better than you found it - love your neighbor as you love your self
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^^^^
I noticed them every day in - seeing multiple per trip in woods and I think they getting more than I had thought Owls are worse and the reason I feel like they are is because they can continue to murder them from the roost as the poults grow. I don't care for any predators and I do my part to keep them away.
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Just saw 11 about the size of a quail at the house .
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