East Tx Turkey

[Antlers86]

Every spring for the last 2 years I have a hen show up for a few days. Sure wish I had some Toms around as well. Cool sighting. I watched her April 1st cross the road on to my place. Today one of my cams finally captured some pics of her.

Henderson County in LaRue.

[BradBryant1000]

That's cool. I love hunting turkeys.

[Passthrough]

Too many poachers around Athens to have a sustainable turkey population!

[eradicator]

She's nesting.

[GoneSouth]

Too many poachers around Athens to have a sustainable turkey population!

He’s just confused, that’s a mutant guinea in his pic

[Preacher Man]

She's nesting.

This. Give them some time

[eradicator]

This. Give them some time

And continue to enhance your property...

[Antlers86]

And continue to enhance your property...

That's the plan. Looking to expand a few acres soon if deal goes through as well as improve/enhance habitat throughout. I still have a bobcat problem but put a good dent in them over the last 2 yrs. Fingers crossed!

[eradicator]

That's the plan. Looking to expand a few acres soon if deal goes through as well as improve/enhance habitat throughout. I still have a bobcat problem but put a good dent in them over the last 2 yrs. Fingers crossed!

Sounds good. Removing some underbrush via cutting or controlled burn works wonders. Food plots, etc. Do you have any creeks or ridges on your place?

[AntlerCollector]

Very cool. I agree she's on your place nesting somewhere.

[Quackerbox]

We had 2 pair in Houston county for 2 years (both hens had trackers). Tpwd would come check them every spring. On the third year all we had was a single hen. The hen lasted for about 2 more seasons.

Only sign of chicks was found bones. I saw her a few times from this stand where a cam got her in the snow

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[Snowflake Killa]

We have quite a few on our place. Dumb as s###

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[Drycreek3189]

When I bought my place near Troup over 20 years ago I had 7 hens roosting on my place. Then 5, then 2, then none. Too many yotes, coons, bobcats, skunks, possums, and poaching a-holes for us to ever have a population except on large places with predators controlled.

[Muskles]

Hope you can get a tom to show up. Doesn't do the hen any good to nest if there's no Tom around to fertilize the eggs. There used to be 4 kind of between us in Reese. Haven't seen them in several years.

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[CSanders]

I hunt about 15 minutes south of Larue, last year we had our first turkeys on camera and saw about a dozen once.