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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5064457" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>Could be just bad luck you've missed seeing the big flock... could also be that they are gone. The latter is more likely. Turkeys are hurting in most places with marginal habitat and have been overharvested beyond the point where reproduction can keep up. Just because you only killed two, doesn't mean your neighbor and friends didn't kill 16 next to you.</p><p></p><p>A good example... the winter flock a mile down the road from one of my farms had 6 toms and 9 jakes in it last year. That big flock has only had 6 toms and 6 new jakes this winter. We took 1 tom last spring. Something happened to the other 8 males between last winter and this winter. Maybe they just committed suicide, but I suspect it is more likely the 8 missing birds were killed as they dispersed last spring.... and between the 35 hens in that flock, they only managed to produce 6 jakes this past spring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5064457, member: 2805"] Could be just bad luck you've missed seeing the big flock... could also be that they are gone. The latter is more likely. Turkeys are hurting in most places with marginal habitat and have been overharvested beyond the point where reproduction can keep up. Just because you only killed two, doesn't mean your neighbor and friends didn't kill 16 next to you. A good example... the winter flock a mile down the road from one of my farms had 6 toms and 9 jakes in it last year. That big flock has only had 6 toms and 6 new jakes this winter. We took 1 tom last spring. Something happened to the other 8 males between last winter and this winter. Maybe they just committed suicide, but I suspect it is more likely the 8 missing birds were killed as they dispersed last spring.... and between the 35 hens in that flock, they only managed to produce 6 jakes this past spring. [/QUOTE]
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