I know this is going to sound crazy, but I have an Eastern Wild Turkey. We live on 33 wooded acres, bordering 2300 acres of hunt club property and she adopted us. She just showed up one day, and stayed outside of the barn towards the woods, but little by little she got braver and braver and got...
My humidity usually runs in the mid 30's most of the time. Honestly, I didn't even have a hydrometer this time in the bator, I just filled one trough and topped it off about every day. Then at lock down I switched over to another Eco 20 bator,and filled both trays and my humidity levels were 45...
I just put in 8 Turkey eggs 6 days ago. This is my 3rd time trying a hatch, first time trying turkey eggs. I have chicken eggs coming to put in with them on Thursday. Hope your hatch goes well.
Oh my, the exact same thing happened to me this past weekend. The last one to hatch, I had to help it out and the shell was stuck to it's back and head. There was that sticky goo all over it's body too. Mine still has its down stuck to it's head but the rest of it's body has been fluffing out...
I like this site too, I often refer to it while I am counting down the days to hatch.
http://www.cobb-vantress.com/contactus/brochures/EmbryoFlipChart.pdf
I want in. I just set this evening, 32 Bearded Silkie eggs due April 14., and I set 8 turkey eggs and will add some chicken eggs too next week so they all will be due April 21. I like the idea of a brooder. I love my Brinsea Eco 20, just ordered my third one.
Here is my March hatch a long Brinsea Eco 20 picture. I posted it on Brinsea's facebook page. The first one hatched is patiently waiting on it's sibling to finish hatching. I have 11 more still to hatch, today is day 20.