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[muddyboots]

A hen with 15 poults. Pretty cool encounter. Now when would she have been bred to have poults now??

 

[REN]

Prob early April Maybe even end of March


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[Woodsman10]

See my post from a couple days ago.
Obviously, it depends on the age of poults too.
But I would say the third or fourth week of march, maybe first week of april.


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[Andy S.]

Awesome sight, you have to love that. Today is May 14. You can subtract 28 days for incubation, 7 days for their age (assumption), and 15 days for each egg she laid. Doing the math, she was probably successfully bred around March 20th, if not a few days earlier.

 

[muddyboots]

Nice

 

[callemquacktn]

We watched one get bred this morning. Crazy how long they go

 

[catman529]

The hen was probably bred sometime earlier this spring


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[Andy S.]

Right in line with what we saw mid March around these parts. viewtopic.php?f=12&t=326612&p=4203063&hilit=Trail#p4203063

 

[Hunt 365]

Saw one with poults this weekend too, and yesterday morning they were gobbling like opening morning! Wish the deer rut was as long as the turkeys'!

 

[Beard Buster]

I saw 8 jakes with a hen on Friday
They were strutting
This was in Davidson co

 

[rem270]

cool

 

[megalomaniac]

She was in great condition coming through the winter considering her nest initiation date and the number of poults in the clutch. That bodes well for your localized flock. Figure 27-28d incubation (my last clutch actually hatched on day 25 and 26), 16-17 eggs in the clutch (typically assume around 90-95% hatch rate), and birds usually start mating 7d before nest initiation... that would mean that she was already beginning follicular development and first mating would have been around mid March.