Nice pics!! Very cool to be able to approach a wild hen - she shouldn't try that with many other critters!! Also I love your hair

First, I thought we had 500,000 turkeys in Alabama... could be wrong. If so these numbers roughly double! Assume (rough guesses) 200,000 hens in the State lay 180,000 nests. Only 90,000 of these nests make it to hatch (raccoons, opossum, etc get the rest). Out of the 90,000 nests that hatch (12 poults per nest) result in 1,080,000 hatched poults. Of these, roughly 50% make it to 2 weeks (540,000) and roughly half of those make it to the fall (270,000). Since predators cost the State roughly 1,890,000 potential fall turkeys, I think our efforts would be more sensibly spent focused on other issues than a gobbler limit and unfertilized eggs!

Alabama hunters only cost the State 60,000 gobblers, racoons cost nearly 2 million... hmmm lets see... what should we focus on... hard to decide reducing the limit to 3 would save 24,000 if all regulations were followed and the 60,000 was make up of limits, its not and it wont. It might save 5,000 birds but piss off a lot of hunters.