Is my Turkey hen broody?

[Pearlescent]

No need to cage a turkey hen to break the broodiness.

Ok, good. That’s the only thing my research told me

 

[R2elk]

I don’t really think that’s possible for me to do, cause that’s the only place she will lay. And she lays almost everyday so I wouldn’t want to make her feel like she couldn’t lay her eggs. I don’t wanna risk her getting egg bound.

She isn't fully broody or she wouldn't still be laying.

She isn't going to get egg bound by removing that box. She will find somewhere else to lay.

 

[Huntmaster]

I don’t directly have any, but I’m sure I could get some from someone locally. I want to make her stop being broody, but I don’t think it’d be good to put her in a cage for to long. She gets very angry and won’t settle if she doesn’t feel like she’s in a good place. I would rather let her hatch eggs than risk ruining my close bond with her due to cold water plunges or being kept in a cage.

If she is still laying eggs then she is not fully broody

 

[Huntmaster]

She isn't fully broody or she wouldn't still be laying.

She isn't going to get egg bound by removing that box. She will find somewhere else to lay.

Both strike at same moment again

 

[R2elk]

Ok, good. That’s the only thing my research told me

That's what they do with chickens, not turkeys. Most people want their turkeys to go broody, not break them from it.

The most common method is to destroy the nest site and prevent access to it.

 

[Pearlescent]

ok, thanks, I’ll do my best to remove her eggs, and I think I’ll try putting fake eggs in better nesting locations. Right now she’s pretty high up. I think I’ll just remove her from the box after she lays her daily egg and remove it. I can’t remove the box because my chickens also use it, and they are old and picky and refuse to lay unless they have their perfect box, but if I remove the eggs she will hopefully stop.
Thanks

 

[Panamom]

View attachment 3804421My 10-11 month old Turkey hen has been laying almost everyday for the last month. I have been taking her eggs every night, but I recently got her fake eggs to see if she’d sit on them. She sits on them daily, as well as lays an egg everyday, I usually have to remove her from the box. We don’t have a male so they aren’t fertile. Unless she is one of the turkeys who can lay fertilized eggs on their own, which I doubt. She usually hops out on her own eventually, but if she gets in there near dark she doesn’t get out to sleep on her perch. She pushes eggs under her body if I give them to her whilst she is sitting. I honestly don’t know what to do, but I’m leaving her in overnight, if she doesn’t get out on her own. Will update tomorrow. She sits very still in box unless disturbed. Usually with her head down.

My turkey hen is about the same age, no male turkey but she is sitting on everyone’s eggs. There is lots of clucking going on as the others want to lay, there and only there, as usual. Today the sexlink was squoze in near front of the nest.
I guess this is a common behavior judging by the above post.
At least she quit eliminating in the nest.

 

[Panamom]

View attachment 3804421My 10-11 month old Turkey hen has been laying almost everyday for the last month. I have been taking her eggs every night, but I recently got her fake eggs to see if she’d sit on them. She sits on them daily, as well as lays an egg everyday, I usually have to remove her from the box. We don’t have a male so they aren’t fertile. Unless she is one of the turkeys who can lay fertilized eggs on their own, which I doubt. She usually hops out on her own eventually, but if she gets in there near dark she doesn’t get out to sleep on her perch. She pushes eggs under her body if I give them to her whilst she is sitting. I honestly don’t know what to do, but I’m leaving her in overnight, if she doesn’t get out on her own. Will update tomorrow. She sits very still in box unless disturbed. Usually with her head down.

My turkey hen was sitting on eggs, hers and the chickens as everyone lays in the same nest. Hers are not fertilized, but she is faithful. Annoys the other hens as they can’t get in to lay their eggs