SW TN, Loosahatchie River bottoms, June 18, 2019. Hard to see, unless you know what to look for, but it is an old bird strutting with 10 hens.
Several weeks. Corn around here is from calf high up to about five foot or so.megalomaniac":2jnyk91u said:That corn looks pretty short... how late was it planted compared to normal planting time?
This i did not knowmegalomaniac":bxbt65vq said:Woodsman, you are exactly right.... although I suspect the gobblers continue producing adequate and viable sperm until fall solstice. That's when testes significantly atrophy in poultry.
For the hens, they quit ovulating much earlier. And molt will certainly completely stop ovulation, as all protein goes to forming and growing new feathers.
I'm sure the majority of breeding going on now are the jennies ovulating for their first season. Not many adult hens will have been ovulating and producing eggs for 10 weeks straight. That's just too much of a pull on their body to sustain without supplemental feeding.
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