Just because they are able to renest doesn’t mean that the offspring are gonna be just as successful long term……Does come into estrous a 2nd and 3rd time if they don’t get bred too but the fawns are born late as a result and at a disadvantage from the ones born earlier due to being out of synch with the seasons. They’re also at a disadvantage to predators because of being the only outliers hitting the ground during that time period….

I’m gonna say that the same concept applies to turkeys as well……For the best results I would think we would want the highest success rate possible on the first wave of nesting the same way we would want the highest amount of fawns possible being born from the first estrous cycle…..The fewer renests the better. The more of it we push back to the second and third go rounds….I believe the less successful we are…..It becomes more and more out of synch with the stages of growth of plant vegetation and natural food sources…… (the timing of nutritional needs and the availability of them)....You have to think that it is also out of synch with the insect cycles and such too.

What I’m saying is that if you’re trying to create more turkeys then I would think you would want to identify the 5 or 6 weeks when the peak of that first wave of nesting was occurring and at least not burn during that time period……If you do then you are just adding to the nest predation any way you want to slice it……Like I said before, I’m right in amongst folks burning thousands of acres and I watch or ride by prime fields for turkeys every day and I’m telling you that I don’t really see that many.