Wild turkeys groups can be confusing in fall. Rafts, or rafters, the names used for turkey groups, are either mature males (gobblers) with or without younger males (jakes). Adult hens travel and feed with other hens and the poults (young birds) of the adult hens. The poults may be half the size of adult hens or as small at a quail.
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