Poult mortality....

**Calibogue** · 05-15-2018, 12:23 PM

More poults will die in SC this week from the torrential rain than eggs burned this year in growing season fires!
FACT...

**FEETDOWN** · 05-15-2018, 12:24 PM

Yep, happened like this last year as well

**2thDoc** · 05-15-2018, 12:28 PM

dont confuse people.

mother nature is cruel, too.

**Catdaddy** · 05-16-2018, 07:52 AM

Originally Posted by 2thDoc

dont confuse people.

mother nature is cruel, too.

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**BRR** · 05-16-2018, 08:02 AM

Originally Posted by Catdaddy

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Men used to kill hawks, crows, snakes, opossums, and raccoons, etc. and never say a word about it. Right or wrong it was just a way of life. Those men and their way of life have died out.....

**Duck cutter** · 05-16-2018, 09:43 AM

Originally Posted by BRR

Men used to kill hawks, crows, snakes, opossums, and raccoons, etc. and never say a word about it. Right or wrong it was just a way of life. Those men and their way of life have died out.....

There are still a few around that can teach you what the three S's really stand for.

**Whackumstackum** · 05-15-2018, 12:36 PM

You can control one and not the other, fact.

**Catdaddy** · 05-15-2018, 01:15 PM

Originally Posted by Whackumstackum

You can control one and not the other, fact.

Yes,......and the potential heavy rains this week may cover a thousand times(or more) as much acreage as the late season burns.

Oh, .......and none of these will drown.

**Sportin' Woodies** · 05-15-2018, 01:37 PM

So it seems like burning eggs may now be in fact better for turkeys

**Relentlous** · 05-15-2018, 01:39 PM

Where is the rain? My grass is crunchy

**Highstrung** · 05-15-2018, 01:40 PM

I don't know man, but I'd rather have an adequate amount of rain than an abundance of turkeys.

**BRR** · 05-15-2018, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by Calibogue

More poults will die in SC this week from the torrential rain than eggs burned this year in growing season fires!
FACT...

I don't think so Clark.....

**DJP** · 05-15-2018, 02:02 PM

What age do you think the polts are old enough to manage the constant rains?

I am asking because I saw at least four early hatches this year during the last 10 days of the season.

**Calibogue** · 05-15-2018, 02:16 PM

Jenks I don't know what age exactly that would be but I would suspect that when they reach a height of approximately 6 inch they are pretty hearty and durable at that point.

**Spur hunter** · 05-15-2018, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by Calibogue

Jenks I don't know what age exactly that would be but I would suspect that when they reach a height of approximately 6 inch they are pretty hearty and durable at that point.

I don't recall the exact age either but generally it's when they get pin feathers that they can endure better. Ditto for quail, pheasants. Raised more than a few as a kid and that's when we moved them out of the brooders. Pin feather may not be the right term but basically when they started showing flight and body feathers they were good to go.

**Calibogue** · 05-15-2018, 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by Spur hunter

I don't recall the exact age either but generally it's when they get pin feathers that they can endure better. Ditto for quail, pheasants. Raised more than a few as a kid and that's when we moved them out of the brooders. Pin feather may not be the right term but basically when they started showing flight and body feathers they were good to go.

yes you are correct and the same goes for any precocial species... once they shed their last Downy feathers they are ready to rock!

**uga_dawg** · 05-15-2018, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by Spur hunter

I don't recall the exact age either but generally it's when they get pin feathers that they can endure better. Ditto for quail, pheasants. Raised more than a few as a kid and that's when we moved them out of the brooders. Pin feather may not be the right term but basically when they started showing flight and body feathers they were good to go.

I've raised poults as well but don't remember the exact timing I think it was similar to a chicken which would be 5 weeks. Got some that are 3 weeks old that have their wings grown in but still have the downy feathers on their body.