The Moonshiner's Bootleg Incubator Reviews And Discussions

[kfelton0002]

I was going to hold off a few more days on turning my shipped turkey eggs but I decided to just throw them in the GQF and hope for the best. I will lock them down a few days early to allow any developing poults to situate themselves and maybe the air cells will be fine by then. I will hatch them upright as I've done before with shipped eggs.

Maybe ignorance is bliss because I ordered 12 turkey eggs years ago not knowing a thing about shipped eggs and hatched them like normal eggs with zero fuss. Got 6 out of 12 to hatch on them. I'm hoping to get results like that this time. I will try to candle on Tuesday or Wednesday.

 

[kfelton0002]

Thanks! You suppose it's too early to candle?

If it's day 3 I would candle just to see. I get eager to candle important eggs.

 

[nuthatched]

If it's day 3 I would candle just to see. I get eager to candle important eggs.

Ah, let's see, it would be around day...1.

 

[nuthatched]

 You can see development in chicken eggs by day 3-5. Turkeys and ducks around 5-7. Keep them upright when you candle with the fat end up and don't jostle them around a lot. They are shipped eggs right?

I was joking, it's only been a day....

 

[kfelton0002]

I was joking, it's only been a day....

Not gonna see much then. I'm on day 3 and I'm dying to candle. But I know I won't see anything in the turkey eggs yet so I'm waiting.

 

[kfelton0002]

It's day 5 on my painted turkey eggs. Looks like 10-11 out of 14 are developing. All but two air cells stabilized and are solid now, a little odd looking, not saddled but just a tad misshapen. But overall I am tickled!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Woohoo! Glad to hear it! Hopefully they keep going strong for you

Out of curiosity, do you have a picture or any info you could link about painted turkeys? I'm actually not sure what they look like and all I'm finding with searches are paintings of turkeys.

 

[kfelton0002]

Woohoo! Glad to hear it! Hopefully they keep going strong for you

Out of curiosity, do you have a picture or any info you could link about painted turkeys? I'm actually not sure what they look like and all I'm finding with searches are paintings of turkeys.

https://porterturkeys.com/Grizzled-Black-Painted-c154544787

https://porterturkeys.com/Grizzled-Chocolate-Painted-c154542538

https://porterturkeys.com/Chocolate-Painted-c154538032

Porters sells them. They've only been in the US since 2015 and last year was the first year he started selling any. I'm stoked my eggs are developing. I have some younger grizzled painted black and chocolate, a slate tuxedo and a black tuxedo (painted and grizzled painted don't breed true and throw a percentage of tuxedos and solid whites).

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Oh, how pretty! Lots of heterozygosity in that coloration, though, so I could see it being quite challenging to breed.

I should have known to check Porters for obscure turkey colors!

 

[kfelton0002]

Oh, how pretty! Lots of heterozygosity in that coloration, though, so I could see it being quite challenging to breed.

I should have known to check Porters for obscure turkey colors!

They don't breed true so breeding painted to painted gives you painted, tuxedos, and whites. I think it's a very fun variety.