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<blockquote data-quote="Popcorn" data-source="post: 5832095" data-attributes="member: 20151"><p>Where does this data come from?</p><p>A hen will begin nesting when her body begins producing eggs. Whether she is bred or not.</p><p>Weather, stress, predation, health, available food not just length of day determine individual nest initation.</p><p>Successful breeding and optimal fertilization is based on no more than 10 hens per male and fewer is better. Many flocks far exceed that ratio. A gobbler mounting a hen does not insure a successful coupling. Anus to anus contact is only successful when the gobbler has available sperm, there is not an endless supply. Every time a hen submits to a gobbler, she risks injury with bacterial infection which often ends the nest success and may well kill the hen. </p><p>An egg that was not fertilized will not hatch, will rot and give off an odor that will reveal the nest's location to a predator or will burst and reduce viability of other eggs and introduce a bad bacterial presence in the nest.</p><p>If anything move it another week or 2 later an shorten it as well.</p><p>I want to see Turkeys be successful and don't care about Hunter success without the prior!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Popcorn, post: 5832095, member: 20151"] Where does this data come from? A hen will begin nesting when her body begins producing eggs. Whether she is bred or not. Weather, stress, predation, health, available food not just length of day determine individual nest initation. Successful breeding and optimal fertilization is based on no more than 10 hens per male and fewer is better. Many flocks far exceed that ratio. A gobbler mounting a hen does not insure a successful coupling. Anus to anus contact is only successful when the gobbler has available sperm, there is not an endless supply. Every time a hen submits to a gobbler, she risks injury with bacterial infection which often ends the nest success and may well kill the hen. An egg that was not fertilized will not hatch, will rot and give off an odor that will reveal the nest’s location to a predator or will burst and reduce viability of other eggs and introduce a bad bacterial presence in the nest. If anything move it another week or 2 later an shorten it as well. I want to see Turkeys be successful and don’t care about Hunter success without the prior! [/QUOTE]
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