NY and Penn snows will hurt turk pops?

[Siwash]

Just read a post on one of my Cdn sites that says snow is BAD for eggs... Hens will leave if it accumulates... eggs are gonners... we got spared here in Ontario, Canada, but I here NY and Penn and other north east areas got it....

[jakebird]

Because snow this late in spring is such a rare and isolated event, i doubt anyone really knows what effect it may have at this time, but i think its a safe bet that most hens would simply renest in that circumstance, and worst case, we have a late year class, going into fall a little under weight. Not a huge deal, thats something ive seen many times.

[TauntoHawk]

I hunt PA and NY but the areas I hunt didn't get accumulations.. was wonder what the snow ment to nesting or laying birds.


nothing we can do but wait and see

[bigdan29299]

I didn't hear how much snow they actually got up at my cabin the last couple of days.  But I know the turkeys were talking a storm up, we didn't see many hens til the afternoon, so I imagine they were sitting on the nests during the day.  Hopefully they stayed on the nest during the storm and the snow melts fast.
Just started to see the turkey population rebound alittle in my area upstate, now this snow.  Hope the eggs make it.

[Tail Feathers]

I could see the snow making it too hard to incubate eggs.
But it's early enough for them to re-nest if necessary.

Unless it lasts for weeks I don't see it hurting the turks too much.

[earlybird]

I was wondering the same thing here in WV where we just had 6-8" of snow.It lasted about a day and half and is mostly melted off now.Will they go back to the nest after that long or just renest?