Chicks?

Toad

Toad

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I thought I should have seen some turkey chicks by now, but haven't seen any around yet. Wondering if they got washed away in the big rain, haven't hatched yet, or if maybe I'm just blind.:confused::laugh:

Anybody been seeing any chicks? The feathered kind, I mean.:thumbsup: Turkeys, pheasants, quail, etc,?

Just had a friend report that he saw two turkey nests yesterday. One had 8 eggs and another had 6. I'm guessing it was some re-nesting?

I did scare out a fawn last Friday that was about the height of a springer spaniel but skinnier of course. Didn't see mama...
 
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I haven't seen any turkey chicks yet, but I think it still a little early. Turkey season has only been over for 2 weeks. I think its usually later in June before you see them.

Did see a couple of young Quail, which was a surprise.
 
I saw a Tom strutting with a hen coming towards him on Monday on Ft. Riley. I think there might be some still breeding. It's still very early imho.
 
I saw a bunch of turkey chicks last evening. They were about the size of pullets and flew out of the road ditch. It was a good size clutch with about 8 or so birds.
 
I also have seen turkey chicks,looks like a good hatch,here in SEK.
We also have seen and heard tom's on the prowl,just last week,my youngest and I where bassing early one morning,and heard a tom gobbling.I have been told that hens will try to have a clutch all the way till August.
 
We've been seeing turkey poults here for several weeks. The goslings are getting quite large already. I'm still waiting on the pheasant and quail chicks. We are right between the normal peak of the pheasant hatch and the normal peak of the quail hatch today. It usually takes several weeks for them to be very visible. I'll need to get out more to see them even then.
 
I saw the first bunch of quail chicks while scouting crops this evening. They were just a day or two old and right in the middle of the road. I almost wrecked my new Duramax dodging them. My wife thought I was crazy. I told her as bad as the hatches was around here the last few years, I sure as hell wasn't running over any.
 
Your heart's in the right place there fsentklr. A couple years ago I was towing the boat and had a covey fly out of the ditch right in front of me. I barely had time to tap the brakes. At least four quail hit different parts of the truck. I felt sick about it for days.:( Even though it was two years ago, I still watch the ditches like a hawk when I go down that section of road just to be safe.:o

Thanks for the reports guys!:thumbsup:
 
Guys,

Up until today, the only chick I have seen anywhere was one quail chick at the ranch. Today, after leaving an out of town job site I decided to travel some back roads and I am seeing some hens hanging with a rooster, like they were going to try and make a nest. A little further down the road I hit the brakes to avoid some pheasant hens, but it turned out to be four lesser prairie chicken. Man was it good to see them. Then a little further down the road and there are some pheasant chicks. I sure will not be giving out GPS coordinates, but it was exciting to see.

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Here in Anderson County the quail have had a good hatch. I have seen several bunches and they have all been nice size coveys. We are hot and getting dry but there are tons of grasshoppers for the chicks. One bunch had 20 birds in it, it had two be to coveys bunched together. I'm going out to the farm in Finney County Thursday and will be doing a lot of driving back roads looking for pheasant chicks and will report what I find when I get back. Talking to people out there it doesn't sound to promising however. It sounds like it gonna be plenty hot building guzzlers.
 
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i never saw so many chicks in my life went for a cruz thru my huntin grounds and had to pull over so i wouldnt soil myself 8 to 10 per hatch about 30 broods in a 3 mile trek.:10sign:
 
I saw 6 pheasant chicks in the hwy earlier in the week. We still have wheat everywhere though with all the rain so most probably aren't visable. Lots of roosters and hens still hanging together. We have had rain everyday for the last 2 weeks.
 
Just in from the ranch and I saw my first quail hatch. Maybe ten and half grown.
 
love to hear that i myself have not seen any quail but the parrots are all over.wheat is out now up here so maybe i will start seein the q' and maybe the chickens. season cant get here fast anuff
 
Saw 6-8 turkeys yesterday morning crossing the road, about the size of pheasants. They weren't too bright. I had to jam the brakes and still nearly hit them because they just kept running circles in the middle of the road. It's a miracle they ever survive to adulthood...
 
I spent two days out at my farm in Finney County. I did see 6 or 8 different bunches of pheasant chicks but probably saw 3 or 4 dozen hens without any. The chicks were from a few days old to around a month old. I saw 2 hens and their broods ( 5 in one and 6 in one) come to the windmill for water. My tenant had ran the undercutter over the farm ground and saw several pheasant broods and several coveys of little quail. I can't believe how many quail there are on this place as this isn't exactly a prime quail region. I suppose the 2 1/2 mile long windbreaks is what attract the quail to this place. Thursday evening at my friends house in southern Ness county they lucked out and received .5 inch of rain. I drove around after the shower and thats when I saw most of the chicks that I saw. They were coming out to the road edge to get out of the wet cover. So to sum it up, there are some babies around, but also a lot hens without any. There is still time for them to raise a late hatch if they get some rain. I talked to several of the locals, and their opinion was there isn't going to be much of a hatch this year. Sounds like my old Gordons and I will be killing mainly smart old birds. Thats fine with me, I have hunted other years like that and the one bright side is there won't be as many other hunters.
 
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I spent two days out at my farm in Finney County. I did see 6 or 8 different bunches of pheasant chicks but probably saw 3 or 4 dozen hens without any. The chicks were from a few days old to around a month old. I saw 2 hens and their broods ( 5 in one and 6 in one) come to the windmill for water. My tenant had ran the undercutter over the farm ground and saw several pheasant broods and several coveys of little quail. I can't believe how many quail there are on this place as this isn't exactly a prime quail region. I suppose the 2 1/2 mile long windbreaks is what attract the quail to this place. Thursday evening at my friends house in southern Ness county they lucked out and received .5 inch of rain. I drove around after the shower and thats when I saw most of the chicks that I saw. They were coming out to the road edge to get out of the wet cover. So to sum it up, there are some babies around, but also a lot hens without any. There is still time for them to raise a late hatch if they get some rain. I talked to several of the locals, and their opinion was there isn't going to be much of a hatch this year. Sounds like my old Gordons and I will be killing mainly smart old birds. Thats fine with me, I have hunted other years like that and the one bright side is there won't be as many other hunters.
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:cheers:; true, so true.

My hope is that there is a bit of grass to get a few clutches off. Pheasants I'm not so confident about. Maybe it's my optimistic side rooting for my favorite bird, the bobwhite quail:confused:

I don't think the E/NE part of the state is going to be much better than it has been. That's not backed by any facts, I just haven't seen many reasons to be optimistic about the population these past few years.
 
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I will agree not to mention the tastier bird of the two as of September 1st;) I for one like to hunt pheasant but like quail more so for the dog work you tend to get. They can also make for some exciting short after work hunts here locally. I have seen my fair share of broods of all three here lately while cruising the back roads unfortunately I have also seen more coyotes and bobcats then in years past. Although I did do my part accidentally by hitting two pups with the truck the other night, I almost pooped myself thinking that I had just hit two fawns. This year is going to be tough but you know what they say when the going gets tough the tough get going so let the games begin:)
 
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