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any young turkeys being seen?
« on: June 29, 2020, 11:06:41 PM »
I have not seen a single young of year yet. My sister lives near Sacheen lake , they have seen a lot of adults but only one young. We have had some hard spring rains, that can affect hatching success.

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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2020, 06:18:56 AM »
They're young still, seeing plenty out my way and yes we got DUMPED on more than a few times this year.
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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2020, 06:22:26 AM »
Have seen two moderate sized broods, so much spring growth you not see many

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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2020, 06:23:52 AM »
Lots of hens running around with 8 to 12 little ones here in Eburg

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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2020, 07:03:09 AM »
I've seen the freeway turkeys at Sullivan with a brood. 

Just saw my first group of quail puff balls last weekend.  I think it's just a little late.

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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2020, 09:15:17 AM »
We have been seeing a few at our cabin north of Spokane.  The numbers are less than normal but they might just be a little later than usual this year.

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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2020, 11:29:07 AM »
Mother in law had a flock in her yard a little over a month ago.

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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2020, 11:44:20 AM »
I've seen a few hens with chicks in tow.   Will say I've seen more lone hens than normal though.

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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2020, 02:02:14 PM »
Not near as many as last spring but yes we have seen some young ones.  Even saw a few baby grouse which surprised me with how wet the spring has been. 

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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #9 on: June 30, 2020, 02:03:47 PM »
Yup

Fewer, but out there.

With this years messed up turkey season I think it'll be a wash and spring 2021 will see a lot of mature birds.

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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #10 on: June 30, 2020, 04:14:40 PM »
Here around republic I’m seeing quite a few. Broods of 6-12. Let my dogs out this morning and 2 hens and what looked like 2 dozen little ones flew into our tree. Scarred the heck out of my pup haha. We’ve had em around for a couple weeks already so they’re getting big
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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #11 on: June 30, 2020, 09:09:52 PM »
Great hatch here this spring. Saw three hens with close to thirty poults on yesterday mornings run, it looked like the biggest quail covey I’d ever seen.

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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #12 on: June 30, 2020, 09:54:09 PM »
Yup

Fewer, but out there.

With this years messed up turkey season I think it'll be a wash and spring 2021 will see a lot of mature birds.

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 :yeah:  I think there will be more 2 to 4 year toms than ever before. Maybe not too many jakes, I'm unsure about that yet in my area?
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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #13 on: June 30, 2020, 10:57:01 PM »
Definitely a drop in polts, lotta hens with nothing in tow, or maybe 2-3 or maybe 4 polts in tow

But I think itll be great next spring, all the year old birds are doing well.  I see a lot of adults!

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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #14 on: July 01, 2020, 05:22:36 AM »
Yup

Fewer, but out there.

With this years messed up turkey season I think it'll be a wash and spring 2021 will see a lot of mature birds.

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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #15 on: July 01, 2020, 05:31:47 AM »
I've seen a lot of them in Lincoln county

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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #16 on: July 01, 2020, 06:06:32 AM »
I saw one driving on Highway 2
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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #17 on: July 01, 2020, 01:49:46 PM »
Agree on the hens, seems several did not set at all

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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #18 on: August 02, 2020, 03:30:14 PM »
Just did the WABDR this week and we saw two groups of hens with young in two separate areas. Not as many as I would have expected. They were looking well tended though. It's really hot in the Cascades right now so hopefully they are keeping cool.
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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #19 on: August 13, 2020, 07:18:32 PM »
To bring this back up, we ended up losing a lot of the young turkeys. Dunno what happened but they all died off it seems. But now our local flocks all had second broods. About 2-3 dozen baby turkeys running around. Bunch of baby quail too. Dunno how they’ll fare this fall but it’s crazy to see in August.
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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #20 on: August 14, 2020, 08:19:32 AM »
 :yeah:


I'm further east than you and I'm seeing pullet size chicks,  some really late hatches!


but it's good news for the next year/s

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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #21 on: August 14, 2020, 08:22:04 AM »
Our chick numbers are down, but there are some, mostly 2 to 6 per hen that have chicks, but a lot of hens with no chicks. I haven't seen any tiny late hatches, all are grouse size or larger that I've seen.
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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #22 on: August 14, 2020, 09:21:51 AM »
Our chick numbers are down, but there are some, mostly 2 to 6 per hen that have chicks, but a lot of hens with no chicks.

I also have seen some late hatch but normally do, so I think often times first hatch struggles to emerge from the cold wet spring, then late hatch struggles to get through the winter.   :twocents:

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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #23 on: August 14, 2020, 09:30:05 AM »
I saw about the same counts as Dale, 2 to 6 up through the Winthrop area and round about. All of them were feathered out and had good size to them. It sounds like things were a little tougher farther East.
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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #24 on: August 14, 2020, 09:33:51 AM »
We had a lot of rain and cold days, from what i understand when that happens polts don't get insects that they need when young.
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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #25 on: August 14, 2020, 10:29:17 AM »
I saw a momma and a few youngins in teanaway yesterday.


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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #26 on: August 14, 2020, 10:41:26 AM »
Think they did ok around us, I see one group regularly that is 3 hens and 24 poults. I am seeing some real variety of sizes in the groups though. Some just pheasant size and some nearly full size. Sure seeing a lot of deer with twin fawns also.

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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #27 on: August 14, 2020, 12:29:52 PM »
I've seen quite a few broods in Chelan Co, mostly smaller broods of 2-6.  Saw a brood of hatchling quail last Saturday.
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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #28 on: August 14, 2020, 01:17:51 PM »
We had a lot of rain and cold days, from what i understand when that happens polts don't get insects that they need when young.

sounds most reasonable reason, i know cold and wet are tough on the little ones but the food makes sense .. i know when i was out in May, later than typical, i bumped several hens, maybe off nests, didn't go look where they had been as i didn't want to mess up nesting if it were happening..
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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #29 on: August 28, 2020, 06:42:45 AM »
I hav e been seeing lots of young Turks and lots of jakes. Next years going to be a great year.

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Re: any young turkeys being seen?
« Reply #30 on: August 28, 2020, 06:55:29 AM »
Plenty of them passing through here often chasing hoppers.

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« Reply #31 on: August 28, 2020, 06:55:48 AM »
Smaller than average broods, no shortage

 


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