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Offline charlieparrish

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Strutters and Gobblers
« on: February 02, 2010, 09:37:05 AM »
...When I got up and made coffee this morning I looked out across the pasture and saw eight big gobblers in full strut along with a dozen hens..it was raining cats and dogs, but the big boys were ignoring it and displaying for the hens..they stayed for about a half hour and finally wandered off following the hens...The season starts here in mid March..so I only have about five weeks to go before show time...things are looking good so far.......Charlie
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Re: Strutters and Gobblers
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2010, 09:40:08 AM »
I bet that was a beautiful site!

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Re: Strutters and Gobblers
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2010, 09:42:09 AM »
That'll get the blood flowin' won't it  *up*




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Re: Strutters and Gobblers
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2010, 09:56:44 AM »
...When I got up and made coffee this morning I looked out across the pasture and saw eight big gobblers in full strut along with a dozen hens..it was raining cats and dogs, but the big boys were ignoring it and displaying for the hens..they stayed for about a half hour and finally wandered off following the hens...The season starts here in mid March..so I only have about five weeks to go before show time...things are looking good so far.......Charlie

How many jakes are you seeing Charlie?  I visited a property in Pasco County a few weeks back and saw a ton of them...

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Re: Strutters and Gobblers
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2010, 10:19:04 AM »
Now that'll get you pumped for Spring buddy!!

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Re: Strutters and Gobblers
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2010, 11:17:25 AM »
Charlie I bet that was a joy.  Always like talking to you when they show up!

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Re: Strutters and Gobblers
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2010, 12:02:51 PM »
Wiltznucs, The group this morning was all longbeards...I watched them thru binocs for a good while and there were no jakes in the bunch. Back in late December or early January, before I got sick, I had a mixed flock of jakes and older gobblers doing some dominance fighting..but since then the gobbler flocks are smaller and I have seen very few jakes...but I know they are around because we had a big group of jakes going into early fall...I didn't mow my pasture this year so I am probably missing a lot of them in the tall grass... that and my neighbor planted 20 acres of rye so a lot of the birds are just not coming on my property...those this morning were in a cleared space where I could see them.........Charlie
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Re: Strutters and Gobblers
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2010, 12:29:01 PM »
Oh yeah...I can't wait for the season to open.  *bannana*