Turkey Hatch or Incubator??

[Bcoz18]

Good Afternoon Family,
I have a Tom & a Jenny that I just noticed have been mating. Rather its the first time or 100th time I cant tell you but they did the deed or tried to do the deed and got me thinking about hatching etc. They are all in a in closed area with again the Jenny the Tom and 8 hen chickens. I've read up and I've been told many of things one don't let the mom hatch them as the tom will eat them, it's good for the mom to Hatch, move the mom and babies. Can someone with more experience please give me guidance on this issue. The Jenny has yet to start laying eggs yet but again want to make sure I'm prepared.
Thank you for all the help and suggestions

 

[R2elk]

Good Afternoon Family,
I have a Tom & a Jenny that I just noticed have been mating. Rather its the first time or 100th time I cant tell you but they did the deed or tried to do the deed and got me thinking about hatching etc. They are all in a in closed area with again the Jenny the Tom and 8 hen chickens. I've read up and I've been told many of things one don't let the mom hatch them as the tom will eat them, it's good for the mom to Hatch, move the mom and babies. Can someone with more experience please give me guidance on this issue. The Jenny has yet to start laying eggs yet but again want to make sure I'm prepared.
Thank you for all the help and suggestions

The first eggs of the year I collect and incubate. After that I let the hens hatch their own eggs.

It is best to prevent the tom from having access to her nest if you decide to let her hatch them. A tom will take a hen sitting on a nest as an invitation to breed. The hen will resist the breeding attempt. At the best, the results will be broken eggs. At the worst the hen will get injured or killed.

An easy way to deal with this is to build a cage around her nest with an opening big enough so that she can enter and exit but small enough that the tom cannot enter the nest area.

When my hens hatch I remove their poults once they are dry and move them to the brooder. I do this for two reasons. There are far too many things that can go wrong for day old poults in the general population. The other reason is that it is much easier to show and collect poults for sale from the brooder than it is to fight a hen for them.

If you want the hen to raise them, I recommend isolating them in their own pen for the first two weeks. When returning them to the general population once they are older carefully observe the interactions with the rest of the flock. Some hens with poults can be vicious to other flock members.

Toms can be wonderful fathers or they can be terrible fathers. The problem is that their behavior can change suddenly without any fore warning.

Good luck.