It combines the relaxed, receptive posture of theBrood Hen decoy; cocky, quarter-strut pose of the J-Bird decoy; and dominant, active posture of the Ol' Wet Hen to trigger aggressive gobbler responses.

This is the call turkeys use to find thebrood hen; in response the hen will assembly call (kee-kee yelp) also known as the kee-kee run call to regroup the flock.

The assembly yelp is given by thebrood hen when a flock is scattered.

That's what they used to call her: "Brood hen to the anchor people." Take Kristi Krueger, for instance.

Breeding success (number of young reared per hen) involves the proportion ofbrood hens (those with young in late summer) and brood size (number of young perbrood hen).