Turkey Mom

[Shoots100]

I was clearing trails around the land last weekend and watched a hen fly up into a tree to roost about 50 yards away.

It was almost dark, so I grabbed the thermal to take a look and while I was watching, a poult stick's it's head out from under her wing.

Didn't see any other poults in the tree.

First time seeing a hen cover a poult this way, but I guess when you only have one poult, you keep it close by.

Hen + poult

  

 

[ncountry]

4 hours ago, Shoots100 said:

I was clearing trails around the land last weekend and watched a hen fly up into a tree to roost about 50 yards away.

It was almost dark, so I grabbed the thermal to take a look and while I was watching, a poult stick's it's head out from under her wing.

Didn't see any other poults in the tree.

First time seeing a hen cover a poult this way, but I guess when you only have one poult, you keep it close by.

Hen + poult

  

 

That's neat! A lot different than what I witnessed earlier this year.  

A couple hens with a pile of poults were crossing the rd in front of me. Both hens took off like crazy through the woods leaving the poults to run/wander around aimlessly in the middle of the rd with no clue what to do or where to go..lol

[suburbanfarmer]

On 8/20/2022 at 4:41 PM, Shoots100 said:

I was clearing trails around the land last weekend and watched a hen fly up into a tree to roost about 50 yards away.

It was almost dark, so I grabbed the thermal to take a look and while I was watching, a poult stick's it's head out from under her wing.

Didn't see any other poults in the tree.

First time seeing a hen cover a poult this way, but I guess when you only have one poult, you keep it close by.

Hen + poult

  

 

Nice, what thermal was that?