INDIANA – Every May, wild turkey chicks (poults) begin to hatch in Indiana, and the Department of Natural Resources needs your help counting turkey broods (hens with poults) and hens without poults.
Brood reports have been collected every year since 1993 to calculate the annual Wild Turkey Production index, which informs biologists about population status and guides management decisions for the species.
Please share your 2024 observations with DNR online from July 1 until Aug. 31. Recording observations takes less than five minutes, and no login is required.
Officials rely on your observations to calculate the DNR Production Index, so every report counts.
