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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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In most of the ratites, emus, rheas, cassowaries, the males incubate and raise the clutch. I had never heard of it in turkeys, so that is very interesting.
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I've heard of roosters doing it as well
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Non binary turkeys. Guess they have to tell us their pronouns
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10 point
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I am sure it has to do with all this equal rights stuff going on right now
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In most of the ratites, emus, rheas, cassowaries, the males incubate and raise the clutch. . That’s pretty cool too.
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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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I have a 8 yo White Holland gobbler that start sitting on a clutch of eggs couple weeks ago, first time he'd ever done that. He sat on em couple of days before I pulled the eggs.
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They are just stay at home dads.
A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
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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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Booner
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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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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.
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Must be a biden supporter. Poor feller thinks he’s a girl
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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
I love animals...they're delicious
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“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”
On the distance I like to walk to my stands:
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