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    Car roof turkey nest

    Our "car roof" hen ended up laying 21 (!) eggs, only four hatched over the weekend, and one poult survived the first day before the hen moved off of the car. We're going to let our hen raise the poult "naturally". I assume the first few weeks will be the most stressful, she has to protect it...
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    Car roof turkey nest

    If/when the poults hatch I think we'll move them to a stock tank with a heat lamp that we have used to raise chicks and poults the last couple of years. We only have one hen and one tom, so we're not sure if the eggs were fertilized or not. She is a little producer, 18 eggs so far!
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    Car roof turkey nest

    We made a nesting box for her that we can move and the eggs won't roll out.
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    Car roof turkey nest

    She laid her first egg (ever) right at dusk and set on it all night, leaving the egg early the the next morning. She took a day off from laying and did not visit the egg. The next day and day after she laid then almost immediately left the eggs. It is my understanding that turkeys don't set...
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    Car roof turkey nest

    Our Blue Slate hen is nesting for the first time. She has chosen the roof of one of our cars in our garage as her preferred location. Thankfully we have other cars so we don't need to move it! I put a towel in a box in her spot that she has started to use. Three eggs so far, one was cracked...
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