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reserves of young turkeys are limited and it takes calories to keep up the body temperature.
The poult’s second problem is related to the first. From 75 to 90 percent of the diet of turkey poults is insects. Insects arc less active and much harder to find on cold, rainy days than on sunny ones.
“So when it rains, the poults find less to eat. This means that it may be impossible for the poults to replenish their energy stores." the specialist said.
Biologists working w ith the Virginia Wild Turkey Federation caution that the weather, not the overharvest of hens last fall, could be responsible for a reduced harvest during this coming fall hunting season.
"Fortunately, we had some periods of good weather in the second half of June. This improvement means that poults which hatch in midJune may survive better than turkeys which hatch in late May and early June," Bromley said.
The turkey population in Virginia has expanded a great deal in the past three years. Fall harvests, he said, have increased dramatically since the either-sex season was extended from west of the Blue Ridge to areas east of the Blue Ridge.
‘•‘There is no evidence to indicate an overharvest of
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