I Need help from fellow south Florida turkey hunters

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Recoiljunky

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As many of you know it's season in corbitt and I was wondering if any of you have had noticed extra small turkey this year I've mostley been lookin around camp g. Here's the questions. Do any of you know any other areas where there a decent size. I've been thinkin about allapatah flatts but I don't know that area.

Any advise is much apreaceated.

Thanks,
Steve
 
if any of you have had noticed extra small turkey this year
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I dont know about where you live, but here they are hatching them may be chicks. Turkeys grow at a fast rate, 2 weeks old they may be as tall as a full grown turkey, then they put on weight. Saw a momma the other day had a flock of babies following her.
 
Nice they don't seem to grow fast around here mabey because of all the gators
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Young turkeys grow rapidly and need a diet high in protein. For the first week, approximately 80 percent of the poult's diet consists of insects. As they grow, their diet broadens to include grass seeds, dogwood fruits, wild grapes, acorns, corn, oats and wheat.

While too young to fly, the poults roost on the ground at night and the hen roosts with them. At approximately two weeks of age, the poults fly short distances and are soon roosting in trees with the hen. By 16 weeks, the young poults are hard to distinguish from adults at a distance.
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http://mdc.mo.gov/hunting-trapping/turkey/wild-turkey-life-history

They may need more protein.
 
Nice find on the info. So it seems there malnurished from the articles POV. I've decided to stick in to corbitt bit I'm gonna look more near the loxahatchee slough. hopefully I will find a keeper.:D
 
hopefully I will find a keeper
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Good luck, you will do fine.

In the 60s we hatched some wild turkey eggs and watched them grow. We let them wander off and go wild, turkeys are still there to this day.

Did the same thing with pheas and quail, we shoot every Thanksgiving and Christmas the flock is still big and hardy.
 
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