Daddy turkey

[PlayTheGame]

I have a male and female Royal Palm Mexican Wild turkeys. The female laid 17 eggs and the male is the one who sat on them. They started to hatch yesterday. The female turkey seems like she doesn't care either way. The male turkey has become their mom. Has anyone else ever experienced this? And if you did what was the outcome of the babies, did the mother hurt the babies did the dad end up hurting the babies?

 

[Lemon-Drop]

I have a male and female Royal Palm Mexican Wild turkeys. The female laid 17 eggs and the male is the one who sat on them. They started to hatch yesterday. The female turkey seems like she doesn't care either way. The male turkey has become their mom. Has anyone else ever experienced this? And if you did what was the outcome of the babies, did the mother hurt the babies did the dad end up hurting the babies?

Wow! I've never heard of this, but after a little searching, here's what I found.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/tom-turkey-sitting-on-eggs.1137247/
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/tom-sitting-on-eggs.653766/
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/tom-turkey-sitting-on-eggs.976526/
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/tom-turkey-sitting-on-eggs.526080/

 

[nchls school]

I have a male and female Royal Palm Mexican Wild turkeys. The female laid 17 eggs and the male is the one who sat on them. They started to hatch yesterday. The female turkey seems like she doesn't care either way. The male turkey has become their mom. Has anyone else ever experienced this? And if you did what was the outcome of the babies, did the mother hurt the babies did the dad end up hurting the babies?

A couple years ago I had a pair of standard bronze. The female brooded the 1st eggs, but it was the tom that brooded the chicks and cared for them. The hen remained an uninterested by-stander. With the next brood, the tom showed no interest in the poults leaving the hen to take care of the them; which she did. Both clutches were successfully raised. The next year the tom acted as a tom, leaving the hens to do the parental jobs of brooding and caring for the offspring.

My first EWTs. Two fertiity test eggs that both hatched.

 

[PlayTheGame]

The dad is a wonderful mommy. He takes his two babies and they go on nature walks. They live in a 40 ft by 40 ft totally fenced with netting as a roof. Keeps the Hawks away. Out of the 17 Eggs only 2 hatched.

 

[nchls school]

The dad is a wonderful mommy. He takes his two babies and they go on nature walks. They live in a 40 ft by 40 ft totally fenced with netting as a roof. Keeps the Hawks away. Out of the 17 Eggs only 2 hatched.

This has been a crazy spring weather-wise. If your weather has been like ours the poor hatch is likely due to the cold before the eggs were brooded. Some of mine are the same way; just a small few hatching. I'm still collecting the turkeys eggs, replaced with dummy eggs, and then returned when brooding has started. Last night, some areas nearby froze. Likely won't be much fruit around here this year.

 

[PlayTheGame]

This has been a crazy spring weather-wise. If your weather has been like ours the poor hatch is likely due to the cold before the eggs were brooded. Some of mine are the same way; just a small few hatching. I'm still collecting the turkeys eggs, replaced with dummy eggs, and then returned when brooding has started. Last night, some areas nearby froze. Likely won't be much fruit around here this year.

I am in Florida. It is summer and had been for sl.ost 2 months
. Once he hatched out to he just lost interest in the eggs and was more focused on the two babies he just stopped sitting on the other eggs and of course she did not want to sit on them at all

 

[nchls school]

It's unfortunate to lose the other eggs. Certainly strange; my toms pay no attention to eggs.