Baby turkeys!!!!!!!

[Luckybuck]

Look close and you will see some:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v490/deerkilr/littlepeeps0508.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v490/deerkilr/babyturkeys0508.jpg

[turk2di]

Awesome! Hopefully they will all survive!

[turkeyfan]

that sure is a nice site, gald to see the little buggers.

[mudhole crossing]

great trail photos, dude!:)

[huntindawoods]

glad to see the little birds out, hope they make it we need a good hatch this year.

[DearDoctor]

Your babies are hard to see!:confused:

[notimlmit]

I could only spot 2 in each pic -- mother nature sure does a good job at camo-ing up

[Luckybuck]

Look for the wing patterns in the frst pic and you will see 3 in the middle left half and 5 in the second picture with two in the turnips and a couple in the bottom right corner.

[hollandhunter]

gobble gobble!

[gobblergetter]

I was out the other night looking for deer and about 8:30 I turned to head home and my wife and I saw what we thought were ginny's in the road. It was too dark to tell at first. I turned and put the head lights on them and there were 3 poults running down the middle of the road. They were the size of a big fat green head mallard. They caught me off guard cause it was 8:30 at night and dark. First thing that popped into my head was they are coyote dinner. It made me start thinking about what poults do when there mother flies up to the roost. Where do they stay from the time their born to the time they learn to fly? How do they stay safe from all the critters? I'd never thought of that. Any ideas?

[Jughead]

great pics,... thanks for sharing those

[Luckybuck]

If they were the size of mallards they can fly. Turkeys can fly and roost within 11 days of being hatched or so I have heard. They grow fast too!

[gobblergetter]

If they were the size of mallards they can fly. Turkeys can fly and roost within 11 days of being hatched or so I have heard. They grow fast too!

I didn't know that. These birds weren't flying and it was way past roost time. Hope they made it. ;) Anyone else heard the 11 day thing?

[GSP]

I heard around 2 weeks

[Luckybuck]

http://www.birding.com/topbirds/0301turkey.asp

Nesting/Feeding:
Breeding: Mature deciduous and deciduous-conifer forests, open woodland, especially in mountains. 1 brood. Mating system is polygynous.
Displays: Males gobble and strut with plumage erect, tail fanned, head ornaments swollen, and wings drooped with quills rattling.
Nest: Usually concealed in grass or shrubs; shallow depression lined with a few dead leaves, grass. Female builds nest.
Eggs: Ten to twelve. Buff to white, marked with dull brown. 2.5" (63 mm).
Chick Development: Female incubates. Incubation takes 27-28 days. Development is precocial (mobile, downy, follow parents, are shown food). Young are able to fly after 6-10 days. Female tends young.
Diet: Mostly seeds, nuts (especially acorns), fruit, leaves of many plants; also insects, especially grasshoppers, terrestrial invertebrates, small vertebrates.
Conservation: Winter resident. Reintroduced to much of range where formerly extirpated by habitat loss and diseases spread by domestic poultry (latter still problem in east and southeast).
Notes: Nearly became national bird of U.S., losing by one vote in congressional ballot. Female performs distraction display. Chicks roost under body, wings, and tail of female until about 4 weeks old. Family groups and broodless females coalesce into flocks when young are several weeks old. Roost in trees. Winter flocks, either unisexual or mixed, usually to 40-50, much larger in some areas.

[gobblergetter]

http://www.birding.com/topbirds/0301turkey.asp

Nesting/Feeding:
Breeding: Mature deciduous and deciduous-conifer forests, open woodland, especially in mountains. 1 brood. Mating system is polygynous.
Displays: Males gobble and strut with plumage erect, tail fanned, head ornaments swollen, and wings drooped with quills rattling.
Nest: Usually concealed in grass or shrubs; shallow depression lined with a few dead leaves, grass. Female builds nest.
Eggs: Ten to twelve. Buff to white, marked with dull brown. 2.5" (63 mm).
Chick Development: Female incubates. Incubation takes 27-28 days. Development is precocial (mobile, downy, follow parents, are shown food). Young are able to fly after 6-10 days. Female tends young.
Diet: Mostly seeds, nuts (especially acorns), fruit, leaves of many plants; also insects, especially grasshoppers, terrestrial invertebrates, small vertebrates.
Conservation: Winter resident. Reintroduced to much of range where formerly extirpated by habitat loss and diseases spread by domestic poultry (latter still problem in east and southeast).
Notes: Nearly became national bird of U.S., losing by one vote in congressional ballot. Female performs distraction display. Chicks roost under body, wings, and tail of female until about 4 weeks old. Family groups and broodless females coalesce into flocks when young are several weeks old. Roost in trees. Winter flocks, either unisexual or mixed, usually to 40-50, much larger in some areas.

Nice post. thanks for the good info.

[NonTyp]

I saw some poults yesterday when I mowed my clover food plot. They were small, 3-4 inches tall at most. Also saw a fawn following it's momma.

[bigpuddin43]

went out and checked cams today in two different spots had pics of hen with poults one had only 4 the other looked like 6 or 8 also saw a fawn running through some tall grass all you could see was its head everytime it jumped.

[predator]

Mowed my food plots today. Had 2 hens in one that had about 10-12 poults between them, they were about the size of a quail and flew well. Another plot, hen had 8 poults that were newly hatched, accidently stepped on one:(, left a big area unmowed.

[rcb216]

I need to check mine then and see if I have any.