This morning when I was on my bike ride with my dogs we had not gone far and I

kicked up a hen turkey and one pole that was wither that I wouldn't call it a juvenile I guess in human terms you'd call it a togger but it could fly

Anyway, I let my fields grow I just let them grow

let them grow because I don't I'm not a farmer I don't grow anything in there

So I try to give the wildlife habitat.

Deep grass is a good habitat.

It's a good sanctuary for birds and snakes and insects and turkeys and all kind of critters like to get in that grass and it gives them cover.

We kicked up a turkey,

as a hen turkey and she had a baby with her

and the hen went one way and the little man this little pole could fly this thing flew off in the pine trees

I mean the last time I saw it was still great altitude. Normally the turkeys will level out at some point

and they'll hit the ground, but this thing just kept on and on. And it worried me that I had

split up a hen in one pole.

Now you have to expect that a hen is going to hatch a clutch of at least three,

sometimes four, maybe five eggs.

I don't know what the survival rate on small turkey pulse is,

but it's low.

It's very low.

They're susceptible to predators until they can fly.

And until they're old enough to get away from a

predator the mother will act as a decoy sometimes most times she'll just fly off and

leave them but she only had one so I'm assuming that two or three maybe even four

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