Kind of opposite here. My card reads 6 hens, 17 poults, 1 gobbler.My son saw 2 hens with about 11 poults up outside of Asheville last weekend...
So far on my summer survey card I've got 10 gobblers, 1 hen and 1 unknown adult. Zero poults.
So far on my summer survey card I've got 10 gobblers, 1 hen and 1 unknown adult. Zero poults.
My guess reason for no more pics is by bushhogging you removed their brood range made them feel exposed so they just moved to a more secure locationThis is a series of pics from a cam left over an old food plot for the summer. This group of hens and poults were frequent visitors and clearly were feeding here regularly. I just picked out a few photos that were spaced over time.
It's hard to tell exactly how many there are, but there seems to be a good number of poults for the hens, and they didn't lose many at all during this time. Interestingly, I bushhogged this in late July, and I haven't gotten a pic of them here since.
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Right. There is plenty of cover, just yards away, but they seemed to be feeding (bugs?) in this plot. After mowing, I guess it altered it enough for them to move on.My guess reason for no more pics is by bushhogging you removed their brood range made them feel exposed so they just moved to a more secure location
Hens favorite place to feed their brood is grown up field not super thick since most of little ones diet is bugs perfect place to hide and eat its what kills us in mtn national forest from having loads of turkeys the lack of that brood range. Glad see you got decent group there I'd bet you see them durung fallRight. There is plenty of cover, just yards away, but they seemed to be feeding (bugs?) in this plot. After mowing, I guess it altered it enough for them to move on.