Wild Turkey eggs

[Emily Piveronas]

Morning, my husband is a logger and he has been watching a Turkey nest the hen is gone, not sure if a hunter got her. He brought home the eggs and I put them in the incubator. How can I tell how far along the chicks are, so I can remove them from the Turner in time?

 

[R2elk]

Morning, my husband is a logger and he has been watching a Turkey nest the hen is gone, not sure if a hunter got her. He brought home the eggs and I put them in the incubator. How can I tell how far along the chicks are, so I can remove them from the Turner in time?

I don't know of any state where it is legal to take the eggs of a wild bird. I understand the desire to help but it is illegal. I also don't know of any state that allows the taking of hen turkeys during spring turkey season so it is very unlikely that a hunter got the hen. Turkey hens do get off their nests daily.

 

[Emily Piveronas]

I will gladly put them back, I do not like hatching any bird personally. It has been 3 days that she has not been around. There are no new eggs only 6 in her nest.

 

[R2elk]

I will gladly put them back, I do not like hatching any bird personally. It has been 3 days that she has not been around. There are no new eggs only 6 in her nest.

I recommend that you contact the local game warden or DNR person and let them know about your concerns about the nest and let them deal with it as they see fit.

Turkeys (tame or wild) do not like their nests being messed with and it is possible that the hen abandoned the nest because of your husband. What he thought was not being too close may not have fit her definition of what was too close.

 

[Emily Piveronas]

I will call them today, thank you!

 

[AyamaMama]

If you done placed them in the bator id hatch them, I think it takes 28 days. I had an Eastern Wild who had hatched all her eggs and she went off with the babies. Later on I found her and her adult babies, well they must have mated together because there was lots of em. I knew it was her because it was only a few minutes away from our farm. They're all living happy and free in the woods together.

If they're wild they would eventually fly off anyway.

 

[509482]

Make sure you have your check book. The Hen will leave the nest if danger is near. People need to study Regs intheir area. There goes 6 Turkeys down the drain. Plus all the Turkeys that could have been. Depending I'f some were Hens. Wild Animals arr not ours to just take.

 

[WildestThing]

Turkeys lay an egg per day, leave them alone in the nest, and don’t start sitting on them till around day 10. After that, it’s 26 - 28 days to hatch. If the hen came back and found her nest empty, she is probably laying elsewhere now.

 

[Emily Piveronas]

They went up the mountain to the rescue center.

Make sure you have your check book. The Hen will leave the nest if danger is near. People need to study Regs intheir area. There goes 6 Turkeys down the drain. Plus all the Turkeys that could have been. Depending I'f some were Hens. Wild Animals arr not ours to just take.

 

[Emily Piveronas]

Called wildlife, and the eggs are in a rescue center. Thank you all.