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[P. Beyer]

So I was at my new hunting ground, scouting, hanging stands, taking pic, etc....

Anyway they have done some utility work right down one of the powerline cuts, Well guess what. I found about 20 busted Turkey eggs.

One more question, At what age can a poult fly? I busted a group of Hens and poults yesterday, Well the hens went one way, and the poults straight up into a pine tree. As I hid and watched the hen began calling, and the poults flew down and made their way back to momma.

Pretty neat to see.

"It makes no difference whether I got anything; it has to do with how the day was spent"

Fred Bear

[Feedman]

Poults normally start to fly between 2 and 3 weeks when wing feather develope.

It ain't braggin, if you can back it up.

[skin_dog1]

I think a study I read said they can fly as young as 12 days!

http://www.bigbuckforum.com/cgi-bin/yabb/yabb.pl

[KYhunter]

I found a nest last year with what I "thought" was 11 busted eggs. A week later I saw a hen with 11 poults. What I figured to be busted was merely 11 hatched eggs. Hope it's the same in your case.

[P. Beyer]

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I hope so too, but thaose tractors really had the ground tore up.

"It makes no difference whether I got anything; it has to do with how the day was spent"

Fred Bear

[lab]

I saw about twenty pults today myself. I was coming into my food plot from the back side of the property and flushed them off of the road. At first I thought that it was a covey of quail until I noticed that some of them did not fly. As I got closer I saw that it was indeed poults. Has anyone else noticed the hatch being very spread out? These today were a little bigger than a quail, but I have seen others as big as a chicken. Is this normal or is because of all of the rain that we have expeienced this spring?

A bad day hunting is better than a good day at work.

[KyHorse]

I've been seeing a number of poults here in the western part of the state. I think we had a good hatch (in the areas I hunt anyway), despite the wet spring. Most of the poults I've seen are about the same size and appear to be the size of chickens, maybe even a bit larger.

Good Hunting,


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