nesting question

[pseshooter300]

How long does a hen set before the little turkeys are hatched and how late will a gobbler try to bread a hen? Cause I got trail cam pics of 4 gobblers with two hens and one gobbler was strutting like crazy got him on cam for about a week and he was strutting around end of June.

 

[Gravey]

They'll strut all year long and gobble too. I've heard them many times while sitting on a deer stand. As far as nesting I believe it's 30 days but somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[stik]

incubation is about 28 days.

 

[Winchester]

incubation is about 28 days.

as I understand it a hen may set her eggs longer than that but will not start the incubation process until she has finished laying all of her eggs. thats why eggs that may be laid days apart are usually hatched within a few hours of each other.

Exactly, and if something happens to her first clutch pretty quickly, she is capable of laying a second clutch without being bred again.