Help, I've created a monster turkey!

shortgrass said:

UPDATE: she's an idiot

I think she's setting?... She sits on the nest all day and night but gets up and wanders around for about 4 hours every afternoon... And every day she adds another egg..there are now 21 eggs in her nest and I have no clue whether any of them are being properly incubated..... Are these eggs getting ruined?

Broody chicken momma has 3, I'm going to candle today if I can; she's been on them since the 6th.




And another question, is it normal operating procedure to go jump in the duck pool first thing off the nest and do a broody poop in the pool? DH makes me clean it out every time, and she literally dashes for that pool and won't poop until she is in it lol

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shortgrass said:

Finnie said:

Well, maybe I will be able to add some helpful data when I set my turkey's next eggs. I sold my tom on the same day my hen went broody. After 11 days, her fake nest was destroyed, and she quit sitting. I had been taking her off it every night anyway. 23 days after I sold my tom, she started laying again. Due to life circumstances, I am not able to set the new eggs until mid April, so they will be stored longer than is recommended. If any hatch, it may answer some of our questions about a mating still being viable three weeks later, after going broody, and about long term storage.

It was recommended that I store them upside down in a cool humid location and not turn them. I will let you know in a month or so how it turns out.

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That would be great, thanks!

I might not get the chance to find out this year anyway; it looks like shes already broody; she went to her nest last night and slept on it instead of roosting in her tree, so....

But I am going to save 3 eggs for a broody chicken, so they're just on my kitchen counter, at 68*F, on their side. The oldest one is 9 days old today, so the clock is ticking, we'll just have to experiment and find out!

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Finnie said:

I will not be able to offer any helpful data on the long term storage. Every egg was infertile. So the only helpful data is that 23 days with no tom is too long. In this case.

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shortgrass said:

UPDATE: she's an idiot


I think she's setting?... She sits on the nest all day and night but gets up and wanders around for about 4 hours every afternoon... And every day she adds another egg..there are now 21 eggs in her nest and I have no clue whether any of them are being properly incubated..... Are these eggs getting ruined?


Broody chicken momma has 3, I'm going to candle today if I can; she's been on them since the 6th.




And another question, is it normal operating procedure to go jump in the duck pool first thing off the nest and do a broody poop in the pool? DH makes me clean it out every time, and she literally dashes for that pool and won't poop until she is in it lol

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