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Year after next should be good. I’m either getting lucky seeing them or a lot more poults made it this spring.
"The Heavens declare the glory of God;and the firmament sheweth his handiwork" Pslam 19:1
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Dances With Weeds
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Just saw a hen in Macon Co with a bunch of poults the size of small footballs......
"For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul?" .....Mark 8:36
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Freak of Nature
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None yet in perry co. Patiently waiting
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14 point
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Just saw a hen with at least 10 poults, they were big enough to fly. First I’ve seen on one of my places this year
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Just saw a hen with at least 10 poults, they were big enough to fly. First I’ve seen on one of my places this year I saw the same thing Sunday on my place. It was very nice to see. I had one place I had been seeing some with a hen but now I’m just seeing the hen. I hope the little ones made it
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Got a game cam pic of a hen with 5. Also a gobbler that’s strutting everywhere he goes.
"Cull" is just another four letter word...
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Booner
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Saw 2 hens with at least a dozen poults this morning in Perry county. I think there were more, but those were the only ones I actually saw. One group of poults were chicken size and one was quail size, but all of them could fly. If dry weather really helps them they should be doing great, cause it is super dry.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Saw 2 hens with 12+ poults this afternoon. Tried to get video, but the grass was too high. They were a little bigger than quail.
"Cull" is just another four letter word...
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My buddy that lives on the farm I have been managing to build up the turkey population just text me a report. He saw 4 hens with at least 20 to 25 poults big enough to fly. I had a really good hatch on this property last year and know of 10 jakes that were using the farm this spring. Hopefully this group of poults will make it to become adults.
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"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life.
Comes to us at midnight very clean.
It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands.
It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
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^^^^
Having 10 jakes is huge - great year next year
Hunt the wind - leave it better than you found it - love your neighbor as you love your self
We need prayer for our country now more than ever
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^^^^
Having 10 jakes is huge - great year next year Yeah T-dog we had a good hatch around my house last year and I saw the results. Another property of mine had 9 jakes on it this spring and we left some mature birds as seed. Things should look really good for numbers of birds on these properties going into spring 2023.
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life.
Comes to us at midnight very clean.
It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands.
It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
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^^^
Heck yea - good for you man!!
Hunt the wind - leave it better than you found it - love your neighbor as you love your self
We need prayer for our country now more than ever
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Chuck says "Your welcome"!
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Chuck says "Your welcome"! Chucky ain’t got shucks to do with it. Unless he starts going out and toting a drip torch or running a saw for folks.
"Cull" is just another four letter word...
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Chuck says "Your welcome"! Chuckie hasn’t done squat to add more turkeys on the property I hunt that I can assure you!! The reason I have more turkeys and plenty to hunt have been due to my sweat equity and my personal management practices.
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"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life.
Comes to us at midnight very clean.
It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands.
It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
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Chuck says "Your welcome"! Chuckie hasn’t done squat to add more turkeys on the property I hunt that I can assure you!! The reason I have more turkeys and plenty to hunt have been due to my sweat equity and my personal management practices. But your hunting opportunities will continue to be limited because some random counties in North AL don’t have enough turkey and too many people living in those areas and hunting. You have to hunt the wrong time of year and shoot less. So how long will you continue to help the population?
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Chuck says "Your welcome"! Chuckie hasn’t done squat to add more turkeys on the property I hunt that I can assure you!! The reason I have more turkeys and plenty to hunt have been due to my sweat equity and my personal management practices. But your hunting opportunities will continue to be limited because some random counties in North AL don’t have enough turkey and too many people living in those areas and hunting. You have to hunt the wrong time of year and shoot less. So how long will you continue to help the population? I'm gonna continue to do what I can, when I can. I'll let the rest of the cards fall where they end up. As long as our current DNR leadership is in charge, they have little respect from me!! I do not support the direction they are going and never will based off their made up excuses and reasoning. I'll say it again, the current regulations/changes are not putting more poults on the ground. I have never depended on the state to provide more game for me to hunt and I don't reckon I ever will. I was taught early in life you get back what you are willing to put into it. I hate it for the guy's that don't have turkeys to hunt and hopefully things turn around for them.
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life.
Comes to us at midnight very clean.
It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands.
It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
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Just saw a hen with at least 10 poults, they were big enough to fly. First I’ve seen on one of my places this year Saw 2 hens with 6-8 poults big enough to fly on the other end of the property a few minutes ago
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Seen 7-8 yesterday a lil smaller than a chicken.
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Saw some the other week with 3 hens fixing to cross the road at the house in a curve. I got out and scared them off right before a car came flying around the corner
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