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Post by indianagooseman on Apr 21, 2006 15:22:48 GMT -5
Found this today while I was out lookin for some mushrooms. What does it belong to?
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 21, 2006 15:44:33 GMT -5
That is what it looks like to me...
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Post by indianagooseman on Apr 21, 2006 15:53:43 GMT -5
It was just sittin out in the open in between two strip hills, no nest, no nothin.
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Post by jrbhunter on Apr 21, 2006 21:51:16 GMT -5
She probably had a case of this cold I'm fighting.... one good sneeze just squirted that egg right out.
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Post by Free-Loader on Apr 21, 2006 21:59:39 GMT -5
Ahhh Yes nice.. Sometimes those young hens don't quite know what to do with their eggs just quite yet.
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Post by songdog on Apr 21, 2006 22:28:44 GMT -5
Pretty sure that is a turkey egg. Typically a hen will build a nest around her eggs as she lays them. She will lay an egg and try to cover it up with vegetation and by the time she has a full clutch she will have the resemblance of a nest. I agree with Fast Eddie , probably a jenny who is just starting nesting behavior. Usually a hen is a little more discreet about where she lays her eggs.
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Post by indianagooseman on Apr 22, 2006 7:56:08 GMT -5
Pretty sure that is a turkey egg. Typically a hen will build a nest around her eggs as she lays them. She will lay an egg and try to cover it up with vegetation and by the time she has a full clutch she will have the resemblance of a nest. The area around the nest for about a five yard circle was heavily scratched up I'll bet she hadn't completed it yet then.
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Post by gobblerspur on Apr 22, 2006 15:18:25 GMT -5
its a turkey egg alright, i raised wild turkeys for 5 years or so and i see young hens will drop her egg anywhere.it takes two weeks for a hen to lay a clutch of eggs 10 to 12 .they will nest near base of trees, around fallen logs,ususally in dense cover.probably when you found this egg she was trying make a nest somewhere and dropped it before it was finished. i had some flat roosts in my huge pens and the hens layed their eggs on the roost.it takes about 28 days for a egg or eggs to hatch. i use to raise 100 to 150 poults a year. for the first six weeks after they hatched alot of time is spent with them to make sure they are warm , fed and watered.i had a incubator that would 500 turkey eggs,or about 2000 ringneck eggs.i had 20 turkeys for breeding. 15 hens and three gobblers.i tried to keep them from human presence to keep them wild as possible.i raised ringnecks, turkeys,quail and chuckers.i had my hands full.lot of sportsman clubs bought them for their hunting areas.you should not release pen raised turkeys into the wild because of diseases.you need a propagating permit to raise them. i don't know the rules or regulations of today, but that how it was 20 yrs ago.my gobblers that i raised were about 23 lbs and some with 10 to 11 beards and 1 1/8 to 1 1/4 spurs.my hatch rate was about 90 %.you can see a gobbler can service alot of hens.it was alot of fun and i miss it.
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 22, 2006 15:42:24 GMT -5
That sounds like a LOT of work too gobblespur..
Thanks for filling us in on the information..
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Apr 24, 2006 6:37:09 GMT -5
Yep. Turkey egg.
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