Turkeys hatch in 28 days.

When turkeys are courting, the males unfurl their tail feathers, drop their wings, shake their quills, walk with their heads bowed, and make a sharp "cluck" call. Breeds in early spring. Nests are built on the ground. A male bird with a group of female birds, each clutch of 8-15 light brown spotted eggs, eggs laid on the ground in low-lying areas, incubation period of 28 days.

Because the sex of birds, amphibians and fish is determined by the sex chromosomes carried by the eggs, solitary reproduction is possible under certain specific circumstances, and turkeys are more than capable of this. In the absence of males, unfertilized eggs produced by females can also hatch, and the offspring they produce are usually weak and almost always male.

Female turkeys are extremely strong, female turkeys should be fed less moisture-containing feeds during the holding period, and can be fed some grain feeds, and the eggs are incubated on the 7th-8th, 15th and 25th days after the eggs are shone and tested 1 time to remove spermless eggs and dead embryonic eggs. Eggs into the hatching 26 days, the shell of the chick has been formed, some began to peck the shell, generally 28-29 days can be all out of the chick.

Female turkeys are weak after holding the nest, and should be fed separately for a few days in order to recover health as soon as possible. Out of the chick, every 2 hours to the egg surface spray 40-60 ℃ warm water, conducive to the chick turkey shell and enhance its vitality, improve the hatch rate.

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Breeding and Egg Laying:

Female turkeys enter the first egg-laying cycle from the age of 34 weeks, and the egg-laying period is in the period of March-September every year. Each laying of about 10-5 will hatch on its own. There are 4-6 cycles of laying per year, with each cycle producing 14-20 eggs, up to a maximum of 28 eggs.

Turkeys mate naturally, and inbreeding should be prevented. Breeding turkeys are often damaged when they mate naturally due to the large difference in body weight between males and females, resulting in a low reproduction rate for females and a reduction in economic efficiency.

Artificial insemination can be used to solve this contradiction, at the same time the breeding ratio of the male, can be increased from 1:4-5 natural mating to 1:30, and can make the feeding costs significantly reduced.

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