020a - The Breeding Cycle of Hens with Bob Eriksen of the NWTF

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Andy Gagliano

Wilderness, Hobbies, Leisure, Sports

4.6 • 547 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2014

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Bob Eriksen has been a wildlife biologist with the NWTF for the past 13 years. Bob has participated in many studies on wild turkeys over those years, and he has gained a tremendous amount of knowledge of the bird that he now spends his days studying. In part 1of Episode 020, Bob helps us understand the breeding cycle of hens so we can learn more about the Spring habits of the wild turkey. Here are some of the things you'll learn when you tune in to this episode of The Turkey Hunter Podcast: 1. How many eggs the average hen lays each day and each season. 2. How much the peak season varies from north to south. 3. What factor gets hens in the mood to mate. 4. Why jakes tend to group up with other jakes at the end of the season. 5. How much more likely a mature hen is to nest successfully than a juvenile. 6. Ideal nesting habitat. 7. When hens will start sitting on nests full time. 8. Why a hen only needs to be bred once to lay a clutch of 10 - 12 eggs. 9. How long it takes a hen to start laying eggs after she is bred. 10. What a "determinate nester" is. Be sure to tune in to part 2 of Episode 020 next week when Bob will share more great information about the breeding cycle of wild turkey hens with us.

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1:19.0	hello and welcome back to this week's episode of the Turkey Hunter podcast you know around my
1:26.9	house some flowers candlelight a little bit of red wine,
1:31.9	maybe a little Marvin Gay, let's get it on, maybe some prints on the radio. That is a good sign that
1:39.4	mating season is starting around my house. That's not the way things are in the turkey woods. It's a good
1:46.3	bit different. And so today we're going to talk about the breeding cycle of hens with Bob Erickson
1:52.3	of the NWTF. Bob's going to share with us in this episode what it is that gets a hen into the mood
1:59.0	to breed. How much the peak season varies from the north to the
2:03.5	south? How much more likely a mature hen is to nest successfully than a juvenile hen? He's going to
2:09.0	talk to us a little bit about the best nesting habitat. He's also going to share with us why
2:14.1	Jake's group up at the end of the spring season. How long hens sit on nests full time?
2:21.1	And we're going to learn what determinate nesters means. So without further ado, let's jump right in.
2:27.9	Here is Bob Erickson with the NWTF. Thank you very much for listening today and I'll see you on the other side.
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