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Other Hunting => Turkey Hunting => Topic started by: HUNTINCOUPLE on May 24, 2013, 11:13:03 AM

Title: Wild Turkeys Hatched
Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on May 24, 2013, 11:13:03 AM: Just saw my first hatch of turkeys. Must have been about 12 or so all flapin there wings running around mama hen .Anybody else see the first hatch of the year? Real cool to see the little guys!
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Post by: turkeydancer on May 24, 2013, 11:34:05 AM: Very cool, but a picture would be really nice ...... :dunno:
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Post by: wariner87 on May 24, 2013, 11:45:41 AM: I seen a bunch in the tucannon area.
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Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on May 24, 2013, 11:48:05 AM: They were just out of camera range and I did the ethical thing and didn't spook em. :chuckle:
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Post by: turkeydancer on May 24, 2013, 12:38:38 PM: You need a better camera .... :chuckle: ... :lol4:
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Post by: oldleclercrd on May 24, 2013, 01:04:09 PM: Hopefully this rain didn't hurt their chances to bad. That long dry spell sure helped the hens that were early on the nest.
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Post by: littletoes on May 27, 2013, 08:37:23 AM: Quote from: oldleclercrd on May 24, 2013, 01:04:09 PM
Hopefully this rain didn't hurt their chances to bad. That long dry spell sure helped the hens that were early on the nest.

Been wondering about that too! The same with fawn mortality.
Title: Re: Wild Turkeys Hatched
Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on June 13, 2013, 10:38:31 PM: Been watching the hens with poults around the place. Every hen has between 6 and 10 babies. Not sure if that's good? It sure seems good to me!
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Post by: ICEMAN on June 14, 2013, 06:51:44 AM: Awesome!

Sort of look like baby velociraptors at that age... :chuckle:
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Post by: baldopepper on June 14, 2013, 07:12:32 AM: Funny you'd say that Iceman-newspaper in Utah some years back ran an article and picture a lady had taken right at dark of what she said was a "dinosaur" that ran across the road in front of her. One look and you could see it was obvisouly a turkey-newspaper bought the dinosaur aspect hook, line and sinker!
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Post by: ICEMAN on June 14, 2013, 07:15:06 AM: Funny.

Yeah, triple a full grown turkey in size and I would be running the other direction...
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Post by: turkeydancer on June 14, 2013, 07:27:41 AM: Just remember you don't have to outrun a "godzilla" turkey, just you buddy .... :chuckle:
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Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on June 14, 2013, 11:08:17 PM: Quote from: ICEMAN on June 14, 2013, 06:51:44 AM
Awesome!

Sort of look like baby velociraptors at that age... :chuckle:
So what's a velocirrsptors for us un biological folks? :dunno:
Title: Re: Wild Turkeys Hatched
Post by: ICEMAN on June 15, 2013, 08:28:34 AM: Quote from: HUNTINCOUPLE on June 14, 2013, 11:08:17 PM
Quote from: ICEMAN on June 14, 2013, 06:51:44 AM
Awesome!

Sort of look like baby velociraptors at that age... :chuckle:
So what's a velocirrsptors for us un biological folks? :dunno:

Baby dinosaur. Those naughty ones from Jurassic Park.....