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Post by featherduster on Aug 5, 2018 17:17:29 GMT -5
A good friend just sent me trail camera photos taken in the last 2 weeks, several photos of a hen turkey and several poults.
Better late than never.
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Post by turk2di on Aug 5, 2018 17:48:43 GMT -5
I’m thinking southwest Indiana and western Ky had a good if not great hatch.. time will tell tho👍
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Post by jbird on Aug 9, 2018 14:22:45 GMT -5
I ran into a hen with a bunch of poults this morning on my way to work. They where advanced enough to fly. Heck, I had a hen on the nest up until a few weeks ago..... I don't manage or hunt for turkey, but I am glad they are taking advantage of my work.  |
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Post by featherduster on Sept 5, 2018 4:32:25 GMT -5
On Monday the wife and I saw a bearded hen with at least 4 very small poults. Later that day we were speaking to some friends who live about 12 miles away and they have been seeing a group of 4 hens and 18 poults.
Never have I ever seen this many young so late in the year.
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Post by jbird on Sept 5, 2018 12:21:13 GMT -5
Just so happened that this morning I saw a hen with a group of roughly 6 young birds on the road today on my way to work. Not sure it's the same as those above, but I like seeing the turkey numbers increasing in my area. The ones I saw where 3/4 the hens size but I like watching them. I figure eventually we will have enough to make hunting them worth while, but we will see.
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Post by featherduster on Sept 5, 2018 15:05:48 GMT -5
The birds I was speaking of were in LaPorte county and these birds were just a few weeks old if that.
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Post by jbird on Sept 5, 2018 16:32:50 GMT -5
I have read that they will try to nest and nest if they can. Being this late puts them young birds in a tough spot, but at least they have a chance. I would be concerned about why the hen had such difficulties and if it's a wide spread issue or not. Could possibly indicate habitat or predator or other issues.....a single case maybe not a big deal. More widespread would be an obvious concern. Funny how we want critters to survive just so we can shoot them later!
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Post by colts1888 on Sept 17, 2018 8:17:05 GMT -5
Here at the house we had a group show up early august. 3 adult hens and 12 poults.I was excited as we just built our house here last year on 10 acres and these were the first turkeys we had seen even though i knew they were in the area. It got better in the last few weeks they were all roostin in the woods behind the house and would fly down into my backyard/field to bug every morning. I would see them every morning and evening every day. Watched them grow from very small to almost the size of an adult.Had some get right up next to the house. Unfortunately they have vanished in the last couple days. I watched them fly down friday morning and do there normal routine but have not seen them since. Hope they return but have a feeling they moved on to a surrounding property for the fall/winter.
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Post by throbak on Sept 17, 2018 9:35:33 GMT -5
One thing about Turkeys they won’t stay in one spot and starve they follow their stomach And got to the food as I will bet they’ve done here
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Post by colts1888 on Sept 17, 2018 14:06:59 GMT -5
Yeah they were eating on bugs as well as a couple berry bushes out front. The berries are about gone but the bugs are still there. Any good food plots to plant that may keep them around more next year especially in the spring. I thought about clover. the neighbors have crop fields.I dont have a lot of room but could put a smaller plot out back.
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Post by colts1888 on Sept 18, 2018 16:44:35 GMT -5
Well they must have just went on a short vacation. Just looked out kitchen window and all 15 turkey are bugging in the yard. Beautiful sight.
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Post by HillBillyJeff on Sept 24, 2018 15:00:10 GMT -5
I've got trail cam pics of two different sizes of poults here in NW Indiana. Pretty sizable difference too.
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