BR nest needs

[Koeyohte]

Great, thanks! So they do lay in cooler weather?

 

[kuntrygirl]

 
For whatever reason, after the reading I did previously, I didn't even think of this aspect.  I live in FL and it's finally starting to cool off here (just barely though).

I have two Bourbon Reds, a tom and a hen.  They are about 8 months old.  No eggs yet, but seeing the posts about nesting, I need to ask - what is required to make a comfortable nest for a turkey?

My silver pheasant would just lay on the ground and our chickens would lay all over, then the eldest would pick them up and put them all together and sit on them.

There's not much in the aviary the turkeys are in right now... I have a small banana plant that is growing, so is wrapped off.  Otherwise, there's just dirt ground and used to have planted liriope (which they ate).

Is there anything (or multiple things) I should add once it's warmer again so she can make a place for herself?  Would she need anything or even know to make a nest or someplace to store her eggs with straw or timothy hay?  Or should I just leave the space as it is and she'll lay on the ground?

Any help is much appreciated.  These are my first turkeys and I have had them since they were almost 2 weeks old.

~Koey

Keeping the breeding pair penned is a good idea. THe hens like to find secret places and move the nest when the eggs are collected.  Her needs are simple: a corner of the coop boxed in some fashion. Mine picked the corner where the feed bucket suuport, a cinder block, made one wall.My girls use coarse hay and small twigs that I dumped intot he corner. THe  hens did the rest. 

Since you are in FL, you mightt start getting eggs before the NEw YEar. So you are on the right track to fix somehting up sooner rather than later. 

x2