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Do Toms still strut at the end of June?


Steuben Jerry
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Got home and let the dog out, and I hear a hen clucking in the gully behind the house. I saw her, and then a minute later a Tom comes in and started going into a strut. More like three partial struts and never fully fanned. Admittedly, turkey isn't my strong suit, but is there still any kind of breeding activity going on this late?

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Absolutely. Probably 6 yrs ago my wife and I were woken up around 5:30 AM on July 4th by consistent gobbling. Temps were cool at night so we had the windows open. 

There were 3 toms following 2 hen. Toms were in full strut and just doing their best to impress them. 

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Yes they do.   I got a bunch of pics a few years back of this Tom w receptive hens in June and July.   I am pretty sure I have a hen behind the house that either didn’t get bred or lost her clutch of poults.  I get her pics pretty regularly in the afternoon’s wandering my field looking for a Tom I think.  

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I've seen them strutting in fields into July around here. Back in 2019 my wife and I were camping in a state park the second week of June and at 5AM one morning a tom woke us up. It was gobbling and walked right down the concrete walkway around the bathrooms and into the woods. I threw my shoes on and tried chasing it down to get it on video, all I actually got was him gobbling but no actual footage of the bird.

 

We have also seen them strutting really early this past Winter. We were coming back from shopping and there were two out in a field in full fan at the end of March.

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