Guthrie Co Turkey eggs
Admission Date: 4 June 2016Outcome: 9 Soft Released at SOAR
Location of Rescue: Guthrie County
Cause of Admission / Condition: Nest destruction
Patient Status: Patient Archive
Cassie received a call from her local conservation officer that she would be receiving wild turkey eggs! Sure enough, a landowner brought her the eggs from a nest that had a deceased adult nearby. Good thing Cassie has an incubator! No idea how many of the 20+ eggs will hatch…
Updates:
19 July 2016
6 young turkey soft-released at SOAR
13 June 2016
Nine more eggs hatched!
10 June 2016
One more egg hatched.
7 June 2016
The eggs started hatching this morning! 11 hatched and 1 died. More eggs from the nest delivered to Cassie!
As of 16 June 2016, there are 20 turkey poults in ICU! Learn more about wild turkeys from Cornell Lab of Ornithology!
