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    Are turkey chicks more fragile than chickens?

    We have around 20 eggs in the incubator, most if not all failed (we did hatch a bunch, just nowhere near what we hoped for). Like i said, it was a rough one... I dont know which cheeped. Not sure how to find out, or what to do. Do I candle the 20 again? We've also struggled with candling...
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    Are turkey chicks more fragile than chickens?

    This was extremely helpful. We have some other hens still laying so may do another round soon. We lost so many developed eggs this year, it was quite hard. Just knowing we were probably doing something wrong. I think our humidity was too high, because I think they did get too large. I'm...
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    Are turkey chicks more fragile than chickens?

    We separated out all of our Jenny's and Tom's into a different run. The only two hens in the run are the mama ones on their clutches. One mama was on her eggs maybe a week or two longer I don't remember exactly. Once the first baby hatched, the other Mama that had been on her eggs for less...
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    Are turkey chicks more fragile than chickens?

    We raised Narragansett last year and are doing our first hatch. We had two broody mamas each with a clutch a clutch plus an incubator. One of our mamas gave up halfway through and we split the eggs between the other mama and our already near full incubator. We've hatched far less than we...
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