Celebrate National Pollinator Week

On July 1st, 2012 at 6:53pm Dave Weber said:

2012 Brood update: Hi Bill, just wanted to pass along a brood update experience to you. I was out at a friends farm 5 Miles North of Savannah last Thursday evening. We were hiking around a small new hidey hole clover food plot, trying to make a decision on spraying or mowing during these oppressive heat and drought conditions. We walked into 3 turkey hens all with broods of 10 -12 poults a piece all bugging in the same area of less than 1/10 acre. The first hen we jumped had poults that were bigger than chickens and flew off a great distance away. Then 2nd hen did an awesome broken wing act in one direction while her poults that looked to be less than a week old scampered off into the timber edge. When I went over and tried to get a count on her dozen or so youngin's, I walked into another hen with poults about the size of a bantam hen. I found it very interesting on the different sizes of all 3 broods and the great number of poults with each hen.

On June 29th, 2012 at 5:54am Jerry Tracy said:

Hey Bill, I was out the next day spraying some Sericia Lespedeza and MF rose and walked right in the middle of a nice brood of baby Quail, probably 10 or more little ones and I think two adults. This was about a month earlier from when I jumped a brood last year. And somewhat suprisingly, they were right in the middle of a bunch of rank fescue, even though there was some really nice NWSG all around them. Go figure!!

On June 22nd, 2012 at 12:09pm whitew said:

Thanks Jerry and thanks for making the trip.

On June 22nd, 2012 at 9:11am Jerry Tracy said:

Another fine job by the folks with MDC and the various NGO's that were involved with this presentation. A good selection of topics as well as very informative hands-on type demonstrations and wagon tours. Nice job!!!