lightsouthunter11

me and a buddy of mine were coon hunting and we came across about 10 baby turkeys and a hen(we think)
can baby turkeys fly?

johnnybravoo77

Poults will start to roost in trees with mom about 8-10 days after hatching.

superstrutter

Poults can fly only a few weeks after hatching. They are not much larger than a quail when they can fly. This time of the year though, they are pretty good sized birds. What size birds did you see? They shouldn't be small this late in the Summer.

lightsouthunter11

um............let me get mossberghunter he was with me
no they werent very big at all

Arrowmaster

They could have been smaller in size if the hen lost a brood early in Spring. She was bread again and hatched late. but poults fly within14 days of hatching. Poults are cool looking...

SouthernStrut56

Yes, if a hen doesn't have a successful hatch, she will re-nest later than usual. I posted a thread back in July about seeing some newborn poults in a field, but seeing newborns right now is extremely rare. A better question would be, is it coon season where you are right now? Ours doesn't start til September.

superstrutter

Down here, the poults aren't much smaller than the mother hen. Some hens can and do lay eggs two or three times a Springif they were previously unsuccessful, but for one to have very small poults in late August, that is unusual. I assume hens lay earlier down south than up north, so it may be possible further north. I have a hen on my property with7 poults. They are all near the size of the mother hen. I haven't got a real close look at them yet, so I don't know how many of them are jakes. I hope they all are, but I'm not holding my breath. I need a new crop of gobblers in my area.

halcon

It's not unusual here to seesmall poults this time of year , unfortunately the survival rate is very poor .