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So tomorrow morning is suppose to be the first day in a few days where it is going to not be raining, windy or crappy out. Yet it is suppose to unseasonably cold...any ideas on how this will affect the gobblers?

I don't see it affecting the gobblers. My concern would be the survival of the poults.

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I doubt there are are many poults yet this year...

You could be right about that in certain parts of the state. However , I recall one spring while walking thru a field , I came upon a nest on the ground and accidently stepped on a poult , killing it. I didn't realize the nest was there because the grass was high. At this point the hen came charging at me flapping her wings in her attempt to scare me away from the nest. When I looked down , I saw about 10 poults running around my feet in the tall grass. I left the area immediately and felt like s--- for killing the poult. The only thing I don't remember is if it was in the beginning or the end of May.

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Very weird day.. I kicked 9 birds off the roost.. At 7:30..

I've spooked birds off the roost very late in the AM too. I wonder what makes them do this? On a side note, I shoulda went out this morning. My son saw a huge Tom in the field I hunt in on his way to school at 7AM....s&%t!!

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You could be right about that in certain parts of the state. However , I recall one spring while walking thru a field , I came upon a nest on the ground and accidently stepped on a poult , killing it. I didn't realize the nest was there because the grass was high. At this point the hen came charging at me flapping her wings in her attempt to scare me away from the nest. When I looked down , I saw about 10 poults running around my feet in the tall grass. I left the area immediately and felt like s--- for killing the poult. The only thing I don't remember is if it was in the beginning or the end of May.

 

I'm talking about THIS year, with the cold spring...Last year there may have been a significant number of poults by now..In an average year, the average hatching date is June 11th...

 

Breeding  has been at it's peak the last couple of weeks..That accounts for the lack of gobbling..Toms are too busy strutting and taking care of business to gobble much...I  would expect that the earliest hens have just started to incubate within the last week or two.. Cold, wet weather  in the first three weeks of June will have a much greater effect on poult mortality than it will now.

 

This morning I saw 6 different hens running around and heard ONE gobble between 5:00 AM and noon...

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28* at 5 am, heard 1 bird only gobbled 2x. My buddy killed an adult, we got lucky, stumbled onto 3 adults w/ 2 hens in a field. They never gobbled! After the shot they scattered. I later saw 1 adult w/ 1 hen in the same field@ 11:15. could not close the deal, and again no gobbling.

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