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The large amount ot rain during June mav mean that there will he fewer young w ild turkeys this fall.
Peter T. Bromley. Virginia Tech Extension wildlife specialist, noted wild turkey research in the Virginia Piedmont and in the West Virginia mountains has shown that bad weather in June can be the mortality factor affecting young wild turkeys.
“Researchers observed that heavy, cold rains were most damaging when the turkey poults were too large to be brooded under the hen's wings but not old enough to be shielded bv their ow n body feathers." Bromley said.
"These vulnerable poults, which range from the si/e ot quail to grouse, are from 10 days to six weeks of age. In Virginia, the peak hatching period is in the last week ot May. making the top vulnerability period to be the second and third weeks of June.
"Poults in their first week also are threatened if the rain is heavy and the temperatures cool." the specialist said.
Wetness works against voting turkeys in two ways. Bromley explained. When dry. the dow ny feathers of the poult are tine insulation, but when down is wet. body heat is lost rapidly. Excessive heat loss leads to death by hypothermia. The energy
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