Poults Not Seen!

GUNNERX2 said:

I've got 3 hens and 8 poults that visit my yard daily in Robertson county. The young poults are getting pretty big, dang near full grown. A couple of weeks back, there was 5 hens and 21 poults in the back yard in about 3 different age classes.

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Thats great!

The vast majority of hens I've seen this summer have had 5+ poults with them. A few have had only 2-3, but even 2-3 is better than the 10 year average I have seen. And, I have yet to see any hen without poults, which in years past, most of the hens didn't have poults at all. The regular flocks I have seen over the past month haven't lost any poults either. Very good hatch and poult survival this year…same number of nest raiders and raptors yet way more poults. The decline across the south was not caused (primarily) because of predators.

I've counted about 10 hens on my place.. 1 baby..
was not far from my house the other day and a hen crossed the road with 2 babies.. they were the size of a quail… never seen such a late hatch.. Giles county..

Wrangler95 said:

Rode around this afternoon and saw probably 15 hens and not 1 poult!Clay county is where I ride around and turkey hunting is sure not what it was at onetime!In years past the kill was between 600 and 700 per-season to between 100-and 200 these days.

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Any ideas on when these were hatched.