Under normal conditions, a yearling gobbler will not breed with a hen due to the presence of older males. However, they are fully capable of breeding when at this age. Gobblers normally breed at the age of two years. Some gobblers have been documented breeding at ten years of age. However, some older males succumb to the stresses of breeding and perish.
Hens are capable of breeding at the age of one.
It is not uncommon for two or three hens to lie in the same nest, and then set on the eggs and raise their young together. The hen usually lays between eight and fifteen eggs. They breed between April and August. The incubation period is close to twenty-eight days, and the nesting success of Wisconsin s turkey is a putrid nineteen percent. Normally the wild turkey nests once a year.