A Study of Egg Production in Bronze Turkeys

EGG production of turkeys is not important commercially but good egg production during the breeding season is desirable in order to obtain a satisfactory number of poults per breeding female. To present information regarding the egg-laying ability and habits of turkeys is the purpose of this paper. The problem undertaken was to determine: (1) the average size of the egg laying clutches, (2) the extent to which Bronze turkey hens (under modern conditions of management) lay according to the “litter” theory, (3) the average number and length of the litters and of the pauses between them, (4) the average egg production up to the end of May of hens lighted and not lighted, (5) the effect of age on egg production occurring from commencement of laying to the end of May, and (6) the average annual egg production. Trapnest and flock egg records of Bronze turkeys obtained over a period . . .