# Turkey and their eggs

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/turkey-and-their-eggs/29688>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [April 23, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/turkey-and-their-eggs/29688 "2025-04-23T18:24:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Ratchat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/ratchat/32/13090_2.png) [@Ratchat](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ratchat)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/turkey-and-their-eggs/29688/1 "2025-04-23T18:24:40Z")

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Can a turkey lay eggs? I tamed her like a chicken with bird food, but it’s been a week and not a single egg

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**Author:** ![PALU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e56c9b/32.png) [@PALU](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/PALU)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 6:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/turkey-and-their-eggs/29688/2 "2025-04-23T18:46:03Z")

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Yes, but unlike chicken they only lay eggs seasonally (which is true for all other birds as well). In addition to that, I think turkeys (like most other tameable animals except thoroughly domesticated ones) can only be tamed as children, and so would have to grow up first.  
Finally, I don’t know how often they are supposed to lay eggs. Probably not as often as chicken.

Mods can upset the above, of course.

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**Author:** ![Ratchat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/ratchat/32/13090_2.png) [@Ratchat](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ratchat)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/turkey-and-their-eggs/29688/3 "2025-04-23T18:50:40Z")

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Well, I’ll have to look for some chickens.

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**Author:** ![PALU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e56c9b/32.png) [@PALU](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/PALU)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/turkey-and-their-eggs/29688/4 "2025-04-23T18:53:09Z")

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Turkeys also have the issue that they can fly out of chicken coops, so they’ll either have to kept fully indoors or tied down.

It’s generally not too hard to find chicken eventually, though.

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**Author:** ![Ratchat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/ratchat/32/13090_2.png) [@Ratchat](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ratchat)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 6:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/turkey-and-their-eggs/29688/5 "2025-04-23T18:54:14Z")

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Yes, I already noticed this when I built the pen and saw a message in the log “turkey flies over a high wooden fence”

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**Author:** ![Ratchat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/ratchat/32/13090_2.png) [@Ratchat](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ratchat)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/turkey-and-their-eggs/29688/6 "2025-04-23T18:56:20Z")

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I’ve explored a decent chunk of the map around my base. But so far I’ve only found 5 dairy farms and none with chickens.

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**Author:** ![Wasserlaufer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Wasserlaufer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Wasserlaufer)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/turkey-and-their-eggs/29688/7 "2025-04-24T14:56:58Z")

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Some country houses in the big corn or wheat farms have a chicken coop (“o” on ascii map) and a green house.