I have a question and I was wondering if someone here could help. I was out watching my turkeys again tonight and I saw 8 big toms at about 200 yards, all of these were laying down except for 2 of the largest ones. I sat and watched them through some binoculars and the two standing would walk back and forth next to the ones laying down for a couple of minutes and then would charge them to get them up before moving to another and doing the same thing. I was thinking maybe this is a sign that they are about to start spreading out and begin strutting soon. Anyone here have any ideas why they would be doing this?

Thanks for all the help I will have some pictures posted soon,
It flies it dies

Fall Strut, Spring Strut

i would say they are starting to break up out of their bachelor groups

Here in wisconsin i've notice the tom's are definitly starting to split from their batchelor groups