Recent content by indigo flats

Today is day 27 got one pip but that's all it did so far.So I can't count nothing until they hatch they got me a little worried I was hoping to see more pips.

Today is the day I lock down my turkey eggs, it has been a long 25 days and I still have three more to go to complete the 28 days required for turkey eggs. I have 7 Narragansett turkey eggs in my incubator and hoping for at least 5 to hatch would be great if all hatched. The best I have had...

I have been following Porters Turkey Egg Hatching Tips and have 13 days to go till hatch day. I hatched two batches of chickens to make sure my incubator was running right and I got a 63% hatch rate which I am fine with. I improved the viewing windows by making them double pane windows it holds...

OK she laid another egg but so ar it is still in the nest, I also saw my two guineas mating, now that is a good sign. I will just leave them alone and see what happens in the future.

Yes she is new at this and theses are her first eggs she is in a 6 by 15 foot pen along with her mate she has a private spot she made a nest in and lays the eggs in there but drags them out into the open.

Hatching is addictive and I like watching them grow. I started with Welsummers, Barnvelders, Black Star, Australorp and Americana and a barnyard rooster "MUTT". Now I have 11 growing different colors all very interesting. The pullets will be keepers the roosters will be meat birds except one...

She will lay an egg in the nest then drag it out into the open yard. Why is she doing this, she does it every egg she lays.

I have never hatched turkey eggs but have 7 Narragansett eggs in the incubator. My hatch rate on chicken eggs is average 74%>

How far will heritage turkeys roam from home. If my eggs hatch and when the poults get old enough to free range I plan on letting them do that but was curious as to how far they would venture from home base.

Thank You.

I collect my chicken eggs for 10 to 12 days.

Went and picked up 7 turkey eggs, I found some Narragansett breeders 20 miles from my place and they sold me 6 eggs and gave me 1 bonus egg. At 17:00 hours they went in my incubator now the wait April 26 is expected hatch date. Narragansett turkeys is what I have been looking for. I found 2...

That sounds good to me that egg temperature was registering the average temperature. On my two batches using the average temperature an got one 83% and one 63% hatch rate. Since then I have double paned the view windows and and added electronic thermostat. I used the electronic thermostat to...

Observing the temperature of my incubator I come to the conclusion that it holds an averaged ambient temperature of 99.5 degrees F. Now as the eggs heat up to the 99.5 F. and they are mass do they hold this temperature as the ambient temperature fluctuates from high to low settings to...

After quite a while of investigating I have located a Narragansett turkey breeder in South Carolina that will sell me some eggs. They hatch and butcher for Thanksgiving and Christmas but said after they collect 80 plus for their self they will put me on their list for fertile turkey eggs. They...