Hate to see that, I noticed a hen was hanging out alot up by the highway on your place when I would pass by. I figured the way the fields had grass that there would be several nests.

Isn't it very late for a nest to still be active? I wonder if that nest had already been abandoned, for whatever reason? I once found a nest with unbroken eggs still intact in November.

Isn't it very late for a nest to still be active? I wonder if that nest had already been abandoned, for whatever reason? I once found a nest with unbroken eggs still intact in November.

I ran the hen out of there the day before while cutting hay. I stood up on the tractor looking for eggs or chicks as a cut the area but didn't see any. I think the hen would not have been there if she wasn't tending the eggs...I checked it out again yesterday evening and I definitely didn't hit the eggs so either the critters got to 'em or you're right and the chicks left...

I suppose that another possibility might be that very young hens(jennys) might nest a little later than older birds, although I have absolutely no facts to back that up. It formerly was thought that one year old birds didn't nest at all, but turkey biologists have pretty much laid that theory to rest.

Isn't it very late for a nest to still be active? I wonder if that nest had already been abandoned, for whatever reason? I once found a nest with unbroken eggs still intact in November.

I have done that also. Got the eggs this year and ended up hatching 5 of 14. guess it is better than none