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Male turkeys sitting on eggs
#3411037
05/19/21 07:26 PM
05/19/21 07:26 PM
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Swampdrummin
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I’m in a turkey breeders Facebook group and fairly often someone will make a post about gobblers sitting on a clutch of eggs. Not just once but straight up incubating. One gobbler even “stole” some from his hen’s clutch so that they were incubating side by side.
I just found this fascinating.
I wonder whether this stemmed from some wild genetic coding or if it came about in captivity. Maybe they just learn it.
Another fascinating tidbit is that some female turkeys are capable of parthenogenesis- virgin conception. Some small percentage of hens will lay a fertile clutch consisting of all male turkeys. Just fascinating..
Last edited by Swampdrummin; 05/19/21 07:26 PM.
Quack quack.
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Re: Male turkeys sitting on eggs
[Re: AU coonhunter]
#3411249
05/20/21 08:35 AM
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Swampdrummin
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In most of the ratites, emus, rheas, cassowaries, the males incubate and raise the clutch. . That’s pretty cool too.
Quack quack.
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Re: Male turkeys sitting on eggs
[Re: Swampdrummin]
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05/20/21 10:44 AM
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Jacksonville,AL
alight1983
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Maybe he identifies as a she
The bird possesses a remarkable ability to turn arrogance into hopelessness.
Tom Kelly
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Re: Male turkeys sitting on eggs
[Re: Swampdrummin]
#3415434
05/28/21 08:02 AM
05/28/21 08:02 AM
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Alabama
Shaneomac2
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ITS 2021. probably a female posing as a male..
Georgia Football..Acts like Bama but has a trophy case like South Carolina.
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Re: Male turkeys sitting on eggs
[Re: Swampdrummin]
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05/29/21 04:18 PM
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Kennedy, al
globe
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How would a turkey “move or steal” eggs? Just trying to picture how they physically move them.
Everything woke turns to shucks
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Re: Male turkeys sitting on eggs
[Re: globe]
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05/29/21 08:32 PM
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Swampdrummin
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How would a turkey “move or steal” eggs? Just trying to picture how they physically move them. He would reach over to her side and roll out eggs from under her to under him with his beak.
Quack quack.
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Re: Male turkeys sitting on eggs
[Re: Swampdrummin]
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06/02/21 08:35 PM
06/02/21 08:35 PM
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I saw it first hand in Nebraska last week. Me and guy I was hunting with were riding a big field edge close to a creek. We spotted a hen across the field. He was glassing with binoculars and was saying he seen a head sink down out of sight . I thought he was crazy. The grass was kinda high. We ease a little closer and he seen it again for just a quick second. I didn’t even see it. He started saying the head looked red like a gobblers with a confused look on our faces . He swore it was a gob. So I grab my gun and put a stalk on it . I get to 30 yards and a damn longbeard pops up off a nest of eggs and starts to run , I take a shot and whiff followed by another miss as it flew off. It was weird for us , never seeing that while turkey hunting before.
The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind
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