Super hatch?

[kytrapper]

Saw a hen with 18 poults this morning. Never saw a brood that large.

[turkeyfan]

That is great to hear. How big was the poults?

[Bee]

Driving around parts of south central ky , it looks to me like there are a lot of poults this year...at least the broods you see have a large number of birds in them. one brood of 12 that I have seen for a month are 2/3 of the way to grown it looks like. Good sign.

[kytrapper]

They were probably a month to six weeks old.

[Gobblergetter2.1]

Ive been seeing a bunch of poults too. A few weeks ago i saw 3 hens with about 25-30 poults total. They were everywhere!

[3toes]

I agree!! Seems to be a great hatch. I have been seeing turkey everywhere.Sure wish it was Spring.

[Multidigits]

Kudus to Jim Lane, Steve Dolbey and Mother Nature.

[Southpaw]

My family and I have been seeing 3 hens with 20 poults in our yard and front field.This is the first time in 4 years we have seen any poults within 3 miles of our house. My kids are going to be able to enjoy something at such a young age that I never experienced..Our state is awesome.

[turk2di]

In the Henderson Co bottoms this morning we saw 3 hens with 16 poults!

[snood]

There were 3 hens with about 20 poults on the front of our place when I drove up yesterday. (Washington Co) Poults were about a foot tall. They were able to fly pretty well already.

[Daniel00]

great! anybody going fall hunting?

[fullstrut1]

I have seen more poults this year than I have seen in several years. It seems the hatch is spread out, on my place in the last week I have seen from quail size to chicken size.

[daworz]

Well from what i have been reading and seeing the hatch was a Very good one, I also have been seeing 3 hens with 17 poults, Ive got some pictures just need to figure how to post them here, They seem too be about 2' tall and looked really good, I was able to get a few pictures of them along with the hens, and then iam sitting back at the house on the porch swing and out of the Johnson Grass pops a big Tom he stand in the road and looks right at me then flys into the lower fields, awsom sight, I just started Turkey hunting last Spring and Fell in love with the Sport so all the sighting of turkeys get me Fired up.

[Bee]

The biologist theory is that it takes something over 3 poults per hen as an average survival to maintain the population at its then current level. I am seeing very few barren hens and the groupsof poults are proably averaging 5-6 per hen or maybe even better. I spect this may exceed or rival the alltime prvious best hatch in the mid-south.

[turk2di]

The biologist theory is that it takes something over 3 poults per hen as an average survival to maintain the population at its then current level. I am seeing very few barren hens and the groupsof poults are proably averaging 5-6 per hen or maybe even better. I spect this may exceed or rival the alltime prvious best hatch in the mid-south.

I suspect your right! We had a good'n;)

[Multidigits]

I guess the thanks shold go to the Dept. and Jim Lane being they took the blame for the bad hatches we had????

[turk2di]

Thanks Jim & Steve & the dept for the great hatch we had.

[Bee]

Thanks to the June weather gods, whoever they are.....