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Turkey Hunting Tips => Wild Turkey Biology & Management Questions for Dr. Lovett Williams => Topic started by: Remington924 on March 29, 2011, 05:53:19 PM

Title: Can a Single hen have multiple broods in a season"?
Post by: Remington924 on March 29, 2011, 05:53:19 PM
i didnt think they could but my friends kind of got me wondering because they beleive they can so let me ask, if a hen is bred lays here eggs hatches them and they make it to fly up time will she rebreed with a tom and lay more eggs and attempt to hatch a second brood? and if she can what do her poults do when she sits on the nest at night huddle around her, or fly up because they are old enough to be roosting in trees?
Title: Re: Can a Single hen have multiple broods in a season"?
Post by: Lovett on March 30, 2011, 06:39:04 PM
Remington924,

There has been one report of a hen hatching and nesting again.  She lost the first brood.