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skimerhorn
King of Spring
Joined: Wed Feb 13, 2013 2:28 pm Posts: 526 Location: Beaverdam va
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seeing many pouts yet?
I haven't seen any, was wondering if any of you have?
_________________ "Hunting is fun"-Jim Shockey
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Sun May 24, 2015 10:08 am |
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Vaturkeyhntr
Longbeard
Joined: Thu Feb 21, 2013 1:04 am Posts: 273 Location: Stafford, Va
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Re: seeing many pouts yet?
last day of the season we were walking through a field on the way back to the truck and flushed a hen, we walked over to where she flushed and about 8 poults scattered into the tall grass. Probably a couple days to maybe a week old.
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Sun May 24, 2015 2:25 pm |
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Greyghost
King of Spring
Joined: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:12 am Posts: 2451 Location: Midland, VA
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Re: seeing many pouts yet?
In a cut hayfield down the road from where I live on the way to the dump. I could see 9 of the little rascals. Looked to be a couple weeks old.
Earl
_________________ God, Family, Country, Corps and then the Wild Turkey.
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Fri May 29, 2015 1:04 pm |
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Beard Collecter
Longbeard
Joined: Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:54 pm Posts: 172
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Re: seeing many pouts yet?
Saw a hen with 8-10 poults on my way to work yesterday evening. About the size of a quail. Hoping for another good hatch. So far the conditions in N Faquier have been good. This is the earliest I have seen poults, but have never really went out looking for them either.
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Sat May 30, 2015 9:41 am |
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jstchln71
King of Spring
Joined: Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:40 pm Posts: 488
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Re: seeing many pouts yet?
Saw a hen with at least 4 or 5 little ones on my property this afternoon! Haven't seen poults up here in 3 years!!! I think predators have put a hurting on them! So far that's at least a good sign seeing them little boogers!!! I think there were more but the grass was tall and she wasn't sticking around to let me count good!
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Sun May 31, 2015 8:12 pm |
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Gobblenow
Co-Owner/Dog Feeder
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:20 am Posts: 3799
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Re: seeing many pouts yet?
This is a non report. Haven't seen first ones and I usually see some when I am going in and out of fields next to trout rivers. Got some messages from some of you that you in Va are seeing some including one brood of twelve. Some also seeing groups of hens still with strutting gobblers so second nests may be still coming
_________________ "even after almost a half-century of hunting of the noblest game bird I am going to confess that I am still in the kindergarten; and I doubt if any human being ever acquires a complete education in this high art."
- Archibald Rutledge
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Fri Jun 12, 2015 7:02 am |
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Beard Collecter
Longbeard
Joined: Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:54 pm Posts: 172
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Re: seeing many pouts yet?
In the last 5 days I have hears 4-5 gobblers gobbling from my yard, 3 hens with 6-10 poults each, a hen with 2 gobblers in tow on driveway, and found a lone egg on shoulder of driveway. It's been a turkey kind of week!
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Fri Jun 12, 2015 11:35 am |
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Bird Dog
King of Spring
Joined: Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:50 pm Posts: 2649 Location: central Va
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Re: seeing many pouts yet?
Hen here near the house hatched on wed eve or thurs morning. Saw her feeding wed morning no poults. On thurs morning she stayed in one spot for 30+ min. Binos revealed she had fuzz balls in tow.
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Sun Jun 14, 2015 10:45 am |
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Gobblenow
Co-Owner/Dog Feeder
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:20 am Posts: 3799
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Re: seeing many pouts yet?
reliable source saw two broods yesterday in east tenn all less than a week old. one group 6 _+; other about a dozen
_________________ "even after almost a half-century of hunting of the noblest game bird I am going to confess that I am still in the kindergarten; and I doubt if any human being ever acquires a complete education in this high art."
- Archibald Rutledge
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Sun Jun 14, 2015 12:00 pm |
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jaybird
Longbeard
Joined: Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:06 pm Posts: 129 Location: McLean,Virginia and Huntly, Virginia
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Re: seeing many pouts yet?
Saw a hen in a pasture yesterday 6/20 with no poults in sight.
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Sun Jun 21, 2015 9:56 pm |
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Seahunt
Jake
Joined: Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:20 am Posts: 26
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Re: seeing many pouts yet?
Saw a hen run across the road 6/21 in King William Co. and had 2 little ones the size of a small chicken.
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Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:39 am |
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Greyghost
King of Spring
Joined: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:12 am Posts: 2451 Location: Midland, VA
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Re: seeing many pouts yet?
Looks to be a fair hatch around here. Seen a hen the other day crossing the road with 7 little ones and I mean little. Maybe only a month old.
Earl
_________________ God, Family, Country, Corps and then the Wild Turkey.
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Wed Jul 08, 2015 6:11 am |
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Greyghost
King of Spring
Joined: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:12 am Posts: 2451 Location: Midland, VA
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Re: seeing many pouts yet?
Seeing lots of longbeards that were left over. Starting to see some small flocks of hens and poults.
Earl
_________________ God, Family, Country, Corps and then the Wild Turkey.
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Thu Jul 23, 2015 4:00 pm |
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Windsor52
2 Year Old
Joined: Thu Mar 14, 2013 12:45 pm Posts: 96 Location: Windsor, Virginia
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Re: seeing many pouts yet?
My dad said he was driving through Sussex county the other day and saw a large hen come up from the ditch bank, so he stopped to let her cross. She had 8 poults in tow... Just then on the opposite ditch bank came another hen who had 7 poults in tow...
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Mon Jul 27, 2015 1:14 pm |
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Bird Dog
King of Spring
Joined: Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:50 pm Posts: 2649 Location: central Va
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Re: seeing many pouts yet?
Saw 2 hens with grouse size poults yesterday in Amherst also this dude:
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Mon Jul 27, 2015 1:23 pm |
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