Poult report 2022

[Lincoln Co Archer]

North central Lincoln Co. Poults are almost nonexistent. Severely depressing.

 

[Wrangler95]

North central Lincoln Co. Poults are almost nonexistent. Severely depressing.

Same here!

 

[megalomaniac]

Spent the last 2 days in the field working on farms.

Running a 2 pph average right now between multiple broods and lone hens. Only seen 1 bachelor group of males.

2pph isn't enough to maintain the population, but WAY better than the last 2 years, so I'm thankful for that.

 

[megalomaniac]

Spent the last 2 days in the field working on farms.

Running a 2 pph average right now between multiple broods and lone hens. Only seen 1 bachelor group of males.

2pph isn't enough to maintain the population, but WAY better than the last 2 years, so I'm thankful for that.

Saw some more hens without poults as the trip finished up... prob around 1.5pph average for the trip. But all the poults I saw were a third grown, so should make it at this point.

 

[Displaced_Vol]

Finally seen a few poults on my drive home. Bout 20 miles from the house and 1 group has 3 and the other had either 4 or 5. Possible they were the same bunch but I think they were different.
Still not seen any around the house or farm. Seen several solo hens the last few weeks.

 

[Pilchard]

Saw two hens with ~20 poults between them in Brentwood around noon today.

 

[LenS]

Driving into Pleasant View this morning I saw a strutting gobbler, at least 11 hens, and from my best count a total of 6 poults.

 

[waterman]

In midtown this morning, two hens and 10 poults stopped traffic crossing the 4 lane in front of krogers

 

[TNMountain]

Woke up this morning to two hens and about 14 poults in the front yard this morning. Coffee county.

 

[Creek bottoms]

They're having to come to town or go near houses to keep the predators off of them, hawks mostly.

 

[Wrangler95]

They're having to come to town or go near houses to keep the predators off of them, hawks mostly.

They really do!!

 

[Creek bottoms]

I hope they adapt and prosper, just like the groundhogs had to with the coyotes.

 

[ROVERBOY]

It's pretty dismal here and has been the last several years. I love turkey hunting and probably more than deer hunting. But, if it keeps getting worse, I may look for something as a replacement.

 

[deerhunter10]

Finally saw some today. At what used to be our best farm Finally saw roughly 15ish. Looks like they just started flying. Then at our house saw 6 couldn't fly yet. First time in 6 maybe 7 years I've seen pouts around our house. Maybe all the trapping and habitat improvements are Finally paying off.

 

[nso123]

Sequatchie county. My wife saw two hens with four poults. Predation is strong around here.

 

[tree_ghost]

Rutherford Co. Sightings in my usual hotspots have been low this year for the first time. I did see 15 poults today over by the lake.

 

[mike52]

• Middle Tn around Lascassas saw 3 hens with 19 poults about Cornish hen size. One with 12 about the size of small chicks , looked to be a few days old and this was 7/24 Best hatch we have had in a long time

 

[th88]

Saw 3 or 4 hens with 17+ poults today along MS/TN line.

 

[Popcorn]

2 hens with 9 big poults at Cumberland City today and another hen with 6 big poults at Indian Mound.
Put out camera sets last week spent 2 days in the thick. saw a lot of hens without poults but saw several with poults didnt get exact counts but estimate 2 per average over all but pockets of better numbers

 

[poorhunter]

My daughter took this from the front porch this week. She said there were 4 adults and at least 15 littles. Way way more than we have seen for years.