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<blockquote data-quote="Tenntrapper" data-source="post: 5184329" data-attributes="member: 18110"><p>I enjoy hunting turkeys, but admittedly, know little about their behaviors.</p><p>Back in the spring season, I passsed on 4 jakes that were hanging together. I've watched them all summer, here on the farm. All ive seen for this years hatch has been 8 poults...with 4 hens.</p><p>Ive been bush hogging for last couple weeks, and I see these groups "4" and "12" quiet frequently.</p><p>This morning, I seen the larger group about 7-800 yards up on hill in pasture[ATTACH=full]113383[/ATTACH], didnt think much of it..just noticed it was the bigger group.</p><p>After making a couple trips around the section i was working on, I came over the hill and these "6" were standing about 25 yards from me. I didn't immediately grab my phone for pic, as I just assumed the bigger group had moved over my way. Then i noticed all the beards... everyone of them had them. Most were dragging the ground, but one or two were maybe 5-6". By the time i could get my phone, they had moved away from me. So, this was the best pic I could get. Oh, they did come back about half hour later...and I have a question about that.</p><p></p><p>Questions...</p><p>1) do turkeys form bachelor groups?</p><p>2) could the 2 new ones be from the poults...would this year's birds have beards yet?</p><p>3) why were their heads not red?</p><p>4) when i seen half hour later, couple had red heads....do they change color that fast?</p><p></p><p>Im just trying to understand what's going on here. Any help would be appreciated.</p><p>Thanks</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tenntrapper, post: 5184329, member: 18110"] I enjoy hunting turkeys, but admittedly, know little about their behaviors. Back in the spring season, I passsed on 4 jakes that were hanging together. I've watched them all summer, here on the farm. All ive seen for this years hatch has been 8 poults...with 4 hens. Ive been bush hogging for last couple weeks, and I see these groups "4" and "12" quiet frequently. This morning, I seen the larger group about 7-800 yards up on hill in pasture[ATTACH type="full"]113383[/ATTACH], didnt think much of it..just noticed it was the bigger group. After making a couple trips around the section i was working on, I came over the hill and these "6" were standing about 25 yards from me. I didn't immediately grab my phone for pic, as I just assumed the bigger group had moved over my way. Then i noticed all the beards... everyone of them had them. Most were dragging the ground, but one or two were maybe 5-6". By the time i could get my phone, they had moved away from me. So, this was the best pic I could get. Oh, they did come back about half hour later...and I have a question about that. Questions... 1) do turkeys form bachelor groups? 2) could the 2 new ones be from the poults...would this year's birds have beards yet? 3) why were their heads not red? 4) when i seen half hour later, couple had red heads....do they change color that fast? Im just trying to understand what's going on here. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks [/QUOTE]
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