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Seeing lots of turkey nests while cutting wheat
Posted on 6/13/15 at 11:05 pm
Posted on 6/13/15 at 11:05 pm
Cutting wheat yesterday and ran a hen turkey off a nest. The draper head went right over the nest without breaking a single egg. The nest has 12 eggs in it.
This morning I went back to the field to put a flag by the nest so my planter guy wouldn't run over it. I was curious if the hen would still sit on the eggs with the wheat cut around her. When I walked up to the nest I was right on top of her before I saw her. I put a flag two foot from her and she never moved. She was almost flat on the ground.
Thought some of you might like this picture.
This morning I went back to the field to put a flag by the nest so my planter guy wouldn't run over it. I was curious if the hen would still sit on the eggs with the wheat cut around her. When I walked up to the nest I was right on top of her before I saw her. I put a flag two foot from her and she never moved. She was almost flat on the ground.
Thought some of you might like this picture.
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Posted on 6/14/15 at 1:31 am to highcotton2
Cool pic!
Posted on 6/14/15 at 1:34 am to TJG210
I'm a farmer too. Understand steering the planter around her. But to you plan to control a 100 foot wall of fire feeding off of the wheat straw?
Posted on 6/14/15 at 7:06 am to countryboy2
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But to you plan to control a 100 foot wall of fire feeding off of the wheat straw?
I am not sure I understand the question. The whole field is covered in wheat straw. We no-till soybeans into the standing straw.
Posted on 6/14/15 at 7:14 am to highcotton2
Yeah you almost have to step on em to bump em off their nests. That's a dedicated mamma taking care of the little ones.
Very cool pic!
Very cool pic!
Posted on 6/14/15 at 7:50 am to highcotton2
Cool pic.
Posted on 6/14/15 at 9:03 am to highcotton2
Cool pic 
Hope you get to see some chicks
Hope you get to see some chicks
Posted on 6/14/15 at 1:23 pm to highcotton2
Man, that is an awesome pic....I have seen this kind of thing as well and always hope a predator doesn't get them due to lack of cover....
Posted on 6/14/15 at 4:49 pm to Spankum
Cool picture. I'm surprised then still laying on eggs at this time of the year.
Posted on 6/14/15 at 5:30 pm to fishfighter
This, in my area the poults are on the run and pretty big now.
Cool pic, I've walked up on some poults/nests and seen hens go absolutely nuts. I had a hen go into full strut and make 4-5 laps around me a few years ago. She was so close that I could have kicked her.
Cool pic, I've walked up on some poults/nests and seen hens go absolutely nuts. I had a hen go into full strut and make 4-5 laps around me a few years ago. She was so close that I could have kicked her.
This post was edited on 6/14/15 at 5:33 pm
Posted on 6/14/15 at 7:29 pm to fishfighter
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Cool picture. I'm surprised then still laying on eggs at this time of the year.
it certainly is late, fish...maybe they are all late due to the spring rains this year or something like that....
Posted on 6/14/15 at 10:38 pm to fishfighter
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Cool picture. I'm surprised then still laying on eggs at this time of the year.
I ran across a lot of nesting sites that had already hatched out. This one probably had her first nest destroyed by predators. This is probably her second nest.
Posted on 6/15/15 at 5:08 am to highcotton2
That it could be or the hen is just a whore which is a good thing in her case for all. 
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