June. June is prime time for first renest. I have found turkey nests in July

Agree.

Coons are the worst around here for turkey nest robbing.

Generally, coons come out number 1 as turkey nest predator. My opinion - that is probably due to researchers putting telemetry equipment on hens and being able to find the nest after the hen starts nesting. Probably not many crows steal eggs from a setting hen. However, when a hen is just laying and has not started setting yet - researchers are unable to locate that nest to determine cause of predation and also the hen is not setting to ward off crows. Artificial nests composed of chicken eggs have very high predation rates by crows.

I hatch out huge numbers of eggs. I also throw out huge numbers that don't hatch, plus shells and some chicks that don't make it. When I have several full incubators going, sometimes I dump a nearly full wheelbarrow load a week. Crows definitely crack and eat eggs. I usually have 6 to 8 crows' nests on the back of my property, with around 35 crows in the murder. They check out the egg dump multiple times a day. They build their nests in honey locust trees. Opossums are the most common visitor to the egg dump, followed by coon, skunks fox and coyotes. The fox and probably the coyotes, carry off the bigger eggs and bury them with the top of the egg flush with the ground. Sometimes I find a patch of 20 plus eggs individually buried like that, a few inches apart from each other. I have found eggs, that came from my egg dump, over 1/2 mile away. I can tell because they had hatch dates written on them.

Keith