Dang, but I wish.............

[RutnNStrutn]

I've seen one group of a few hens with 18 poults a few times this summer, about a couple of miles from my house. Then there are 2 hens with 7 poults between them that I've been seeing nearly every day on my property. Other than that I've only seen one group of 3 poults, and I'm on the road fairly often.
Also I have at least 10 hens that I see on a regular basis that have no poults at all. That's distressing.

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[JeffC]

I was ranting about a 2.7 million sq ft warehouse that took over a field that held birds in town, back in July I finally saw a single hen with 1 poult. They were in an area that the homeless use, so it was surprising to see them there, so I try to swing thru every day to see if I can see them again, today I was rewarded with a pleasant surprise, spotted 5 birds, pretty sure it was a hen with 4 poults.

[randy6471]

  I'm in NE Pa and from what I've seen the hatch in my area was better this year than it's been in the last couple years...although it's still not great.

  One thing that I've noticed about the 2 flocks that I routinely see around my place is that they haven't lost any poults all summer. If a hen can just get them hatched out, then seems like they stand a pretty good chance.

  I also have a nice flock of gobblers (5 long beards and 4 jakes) that I see often and that always puts a big smile on my face.

[barry]

............wish I were seeing poults.   

This entire summer, I've seen a grand total of TWO poults.  They were with 3 or 4 mature hens.  I'm seeing some groups of 2 or 4 hens with no poults among them.  Seeing more mature toms and last year's jakes than anything else.

Yep, same here. Have only seen 3 poults with 1 hen and 5 hens with ZERO poults.
And like you we're seeing mature toms and jakes

[JeffC]

the local "town "birds are still surviving, moved 1/2 mile near another warehouse project. Found scat Tom & Hen, on site pad a few weeks ago, so been looking, rained yesterday so job was shut down, caught them by the remaining woods.