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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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

Since turkey eggs are larger than chickens eggs wouldn't they require a different humidity for the first 24 days of incubating?

Can you Tether turkeys like they do game chickens, I have some spots I would like to keep a turkey on a temporary basis and thought this might work it would be a daily thing nothing permanent.

This Hova-bator 2362n is my incubator I wired a STC 1000 to it to serve as the electronic thermostat, I left the waffer in for back-up. The STC monitors the temperature and cuts the fan and heater on and off. It holds ambient air temperature at 99.5 averaged so the eggs being solid should hold...

I have located a farmer that may sell me some turkey eggs. So I converted my Styrofoam incubator to electronic thermostat it is holding 99.6 with partial air circulating cycling on an off with the heat source. Is this good enough to have a successful hatch of turkey eggs. And will turkey eggs it...

I have a Hova-bator with forced air fan that runs continuously as it should. I am converting the Hova-Bator to electronic thermostat and only want to cut and splice as few wires as possible. My question is would it work as good if the fan cycled with the heat in other words when the heat is...

After you butcher a chicken you are suppose to let it rest in a refrigerator for a couple days before eating or freezing it. My question is can I rest it in a cooler of ice and water for a couple of days and this be the same effect that the refrigerator does? Sorry if I am posting in wrong forum.

First egg pipped early this morning but now just setting still waiting on the others to pip. Waiting game just kills me. I am hoping for a good hatch but who knows can't count my chickens until they hatch. I had a 83% success rate on my first hatch do not know what I will have on this one.

Is there such a thing?

What would be considered the perfect hatch. They all would hatch on day 21 for a 100% hatch rate so when wood they pip to hatch out on day 21 on the 20th or 21st?

Today is lock down day when my granddaughter gets home from school this afternoon we will do the candling and removing the turner and lay the eggs on there side raise the humidity and close it up until hatch is over. She specifically told me this morning wait on her to lock them down. She...

Can I put day old chicks in brooder with 3 week old chicks?

Checking my notes after checking temperature and humidity. On day 15 temperature averaging at an ambient temperature of 99.4 and humidity is constant in low 40% so I am happy so far with these settings. Three days to lock down six days to hopefully hatching.