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    Quote Originally Posted by M2Field View Post
    It hurts, but I'm staying positive until I start getting reports of hens without poults or seeing them myself without poults. June will tell.
    If that happens, we'll never be quite sure that the rain was the cause, but it will certainly be a prime suspect.

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    Y'all worry too much. Jeez. Baby turkeys are fine in a down pour.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arrowman View Post
    Y'all worry too much. Jeez. Baby turkeys are fine in a down pour.
    Nah, it kills the piss out of them...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tuffy View Post
    If that happens, we'll never be quite sure that the rain was the cause, but it will certainly be a prime suspect.
    Saw 2 hens yesterday in tandem, in the rain.....no poults!
    Bad sign....
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    I saw a hen today with 6 quail size poults. But we only got three inchs over the past three days

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    Bumped into this crew yesterday pulling cards.....unfortunately I have 3 other hens on camera with no poults.


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    I spoke with my buddy this morning that lives on his farm and he's seen hens with poults the past week (after that last big rain event). So that's good news.

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    I saw 4 hens together on my farm yesterday with about 18 poults probably 12" tall.

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    I am seeing poults after all that rain. They survived.

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    Seeing a fair amount in the upstate. 3 different hens, all with poults.

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    I told y'all they would be fine. Y'all realize they can swim right...?

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    Friend of mine saw gobblers hammering and strutting with hens on Saturday around Heath Springs area.

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    I had to go to Sumter on thursday and saw a bird strutting off 521 between Manning and Sumter.

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    Dumb question, but why is the rain so terrible for them? I understand that nests washing out is obviously detrimental. Why is it so hard on hatched poults? Can't dry out and get hypothermia? Can't cross water flow and get separated from the mother hen? Literally getting washed away? Humidity related disease? Stare up into the sky and drown when their lungs fill up?

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    Quote Originally Posted by WNM View Post
    Dumb question, but why is the rain so terrible for them? I understand that nests washing out is obviously detrimental. Why is it so hard on hatched poults? Can't dry out and get hypothermia? Can't cross water flow and get separated from the mother hen? Literally getting washed away? Humidity related disease? Stare up into the sky and drown when their lungs fill up?
    Biggest reason is hypothermia, their body's being so small and what little amount of feathers they have doesn't contain heat like an adult bird. They get soaked and internal temp crashes killing the poult.........

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    Luckily these rains were not combined with colder temps...

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    Gotcha. Makes sense

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    I ran a hen off this clutch earlier while out scouting a new piece of land I just picked up to deer hunt. It seemed kinda late but I guess she was bred late.image.jpg

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