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Turkey still setting on eggs

MK111

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Working the cattle today and flushed a hen turkey setting on 9 eggs. She didn't flush till I was 10 ft. away. Scared the living dickens out of me.
 

Jackalope

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Working the cattle today and flushed a hen turkey setting on 9 eggs. She didn't flush till I was 10 ft. away. Scared the living dickens out of me.

That's nuts. They take 28 days to hatch. And it should be 1-2 a day for a week. So if she was bred end of Turk season I could see it. Still pretty late though. But really. There isn't anything preventing them from breeding whenever they want in the summer. Especially if she has lost nests.