Sonoma Mountain Ecology Notes

Celebrating and Caring for the Land

Turkey Eggs

A Turkey Hen typically lays an egg a day and delays incubation until her whole clutch, around a dozen eggs, is laid. The precocial poults will then all hatch together and hit the ground running with downy feathers and open eyes…all the better to avoid hungry predators.

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