Have these guys scratching around in my hay field yesterday afternoon and thought I would share.
This is part of a group with a single Tom, 4 hens and 23 poults.

That is a lot of survivors for four hens!

Yeah, pretty amazed myself.
It has been a very good year here in Central Texas though and we feed them regularly.
I have seen good early success before only to be thinned by predators as the season goes on.
Hopefully, half or more make it to maturity.

that's great

How long for turkey eggs to hatch? Good hunting coming.

26-28 days from incubation iniation.

Hope the can make 25-30%, I have seen around 40 poults here on others patures, a few on my place, each time I see them there are fewer, but the ones lingering are sure putting on the growth.

I have historically stuck with dove but think this may be my first year for turkey. Looking forward to being able to contribute something of value to these forums...eventually.

- Kyle

Nice; I've recently seen a momma turkey showing her 6 or 7 poults where all the nice choice soft and hard mast locations are on my new property; really cool to watch her 'teaching' them. Have watched deer hit the same spots throughout the year; nothing like having 'auto-self-refilling feeders' on the property that cost $0 to maintain!

A month and a half later and most are still making it!

pretty cool

Very nice.

I'm glad you guys are seeing young turkeys. For the first time in years we haven't seen a single poult on our place in Lee county.