I have a question on turkeys that I am not sure of. Turkeys here are realatively new sort of to speak. The area I am in is has opened up for it's first time ever. It is a big area with a natural gas pipeline and a power line. These have a dirt road running the length of them. So basically it is a field that is over 60 miles long with no houses ect.. I have been driving on it some what scouting early in the morning and have been seeing a lot of birds.

Now my question is this. Sometimes I will see hugh flocks with toms, jakes, and hens all together. Other times I will see just hens with no toms at all or toms with maybe 1 or 2 hens and maybe 4 or 5 jakes. Why is it that some of these hens have appeared to have no toms or jakes with them at all? Sometimes the jakes will have no hens around at all? I believe that the big toms have run the jakes off. But at times it will be just jakes and hens. So when I see 6 to 8 hens by themselves is it because they have already bred or is it then simply can not breed because they are to young? It puzzles me why this is.