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Do Spooked Hens Return To The Nest?
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<blockquote data-quote="Southern Sportsman" data-source="post: 5892889" data-attributes="member: 10399"><p>Depends on the hen and a bunch of other factors. I listened to a podcast yesterday with Michael Chamberlain. He talked a lot bout the individuality of turkeys. We want to lump them into broad categories when discussing how turkeys behave, but each turkey is different. Some take more risks, some are extremely risk averse, and those characteristics can and do change throughout the year depending on pressure (human and other predators), flock dynamics/dominance (for hens and gobblers), and their individual experiences and personalities. He specifically mentioned that hens that are more willing to take risks have higher reproductive success, but are also more likely to be killed during the spring. If your hen is willing to tolerate some risk, she may be back on the nest right now despite "knowing" that the nest has been discovered by something dangerous. Or she may not be willing to risk it, in which case she will abandon that nest and hopefully re-nest elsewhere. And I think it is fairly well accepted that, the more often a hen gets bumped from a nest, the more likely she will abandon that nest site. Nest and poult survival is a low percentage game, and they can renest if necessary, so evolutionarily, it makes sense for hens to prioritize their own survival over the survival of any particular clutch of eggs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Southern Sportsman, post: 5892889, member: 10399"] Depends on the hen and a bunch of other factors. I listened to a podcast yesterday with Michael Chamberlain. He talked a lot bout the individuality of turkeys. We want to lump them into broad categories when discussing how turkeys behave, but each turkey is different. Some take more risks, some are extremely risk averse, and those characteristics can and do change throughout the year depending on pressure (human and other predators), flock dynamics/dominance (for hens and gobblers), and their individual experiences and personalities. He specifically mentioned that hens that are more willing to take risks have higher reproductive success, but are also more likely to be killed during the spring. If your hen is willing to tolerate some risk, she may be back on the nest right now despite “knowing” that the nest has been discovered by something dangerous. Or she may not be willing to risk it, in which case she will abandon that nest and hopefully re-nest elsewhere. And I think it is fairly well accepted that, the more often a hen gets bumped from a nest, the more likely she will abandon that nest site. Nest and poult survival is a low percentage game, and they can renest if necessary, so evolutionarily, it makes sense for hens to prioritize their own survival over the survival of any particular clutch of eggs. [/QUOTE]
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