Year old turkeys not laying yet!?

[MvLittrell711]

I have two bourbon reds (one Tom, one hen) they are a year old and I have still not gotten any eggs yet! I live in the south so it's been warm here and they are in a coop and pen so I would be able to find an egg if she laid one. I have even seen them start breeding every morning but still nothing, what's going on here???

 

[ivan3]

There can be considerable variation in onset of lay between individual hens from the same hatch. They are breeding so, keep a watch out. Don't know how much bedding you have in the coop but our girls can mask their `nests in progress' with only wood chips and straw (fortunately for us, that leaves only the two corners in the back of the shed to check - can have ten eggs and no depression in the bedding at all - they just cover them up and pretend to be doing nothing at all).