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    High Altitude Heritage Turkey Hatch-A-Long

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    High Altitude Heritage Turkey Hatch-A-Long

    So yes indeed, a baby turkey hatched out and is healthy and happy. I am excited. This has been a long process. I went to the incubation room on Wednesday night to check the humidity levels, and the egg was already completely zipped, the baby was peeping, and the egg was moving a lot as the...
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    High Altitude Heritage Turkey Hatch-A-Long

    The update I didn't know if I'd be making: I moved another egg to lockdown, expected to hatch Saturday, and tonight it popped out of its shell! One of the fastest hatches I've witnessed and at least 48 hours early! It's been a big day and I will post more details later, but after all this...
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    High Altitude Heritage Turkey Hatch-A-Long

    Time for an update. I candled batch 2 earlier this week. Only 1 egg was alive, but it was very much alive and I could clearly see the embryo moving around. I removed the remainder of batch 2. The batch was set on 4/15, so the hatch date for the remaining egg is 5/14. Tonight I candled the...
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    High Altitude Heritage Turkey Hatch-A-Long

    No action for egg 1. I don't think it made it. I might give it through the day, but I don't anticipate a hatch. Oh well, Not much news on the others. I may candle again this evening, at least the 2nd batch, and try to toss some non-growers out of the incubator.
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    High Altitude Heritage Turkey Hatch-A-Long

    So far no action in the lockdown. No peeps, no wiggles. This evening is officially day 28. As this first batch of eggs had such a traumatic early incubation, I would honestly be surprised if this chick pulled through. But we shall see, it continued to develop until it was fully dark in the...
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    High Altitude Heritage Turkey Hatch-A-Long

    So the egg on lockdown has not been as locked down as I hoped. I had forgotten how difficult it is to stabilize my old styrofoam incubator. I had everything from full heat but only able to get it up to 94*, then I partially covered one of the vents and overnight it went up to 116* with 99%...
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    High Altitude Heritage Turkey Hatch-A-Long

    I think I did my math wrong last post. Anyway, today the OG egg went into lockdown (should have gone in last night but I was too tired). I have my styrofoam incubator set up and stabilized for the hatch out, if it should happen. It's mighty dark in that egg, it's full of something. We'll see...
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    High Altitude Heritage Turkey Hatch-A-Long

    Today is day 14 for the lone survivor of the first batch of eggs, and it's day 7 for the second batch. I just weighed and candled everybody. Here's what I'm seeing this go-round: The OG egg is now completely dark except for the air pocket, so obviously developing. It was very under-weight...
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    High Altitude Heritage Turkey Hatch-A-Long

    @Coops Dad I love Jaws! I always say it's got to be one of the best fishing movies ever made.
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    High Altitude Heritage Turkey Hatch-A-Long

    Thanks for reading! I figured that with all this time and effort, at least if I make a record of it here maybe somebody can learn something from my mess! Plus I like when I fond out that others are out there trying to do the same thing!
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    High Altitude Heritage Turkey Hatch-A-Long

    Yeah, my Tom seeks me out every chance he gets, and is always gobbling at me and looking at me from the run, begging to be let out so he can come and hang out with me. Usually that consists of him displaying and walking circles around me for as long as he is out, ha!
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    High Altitude Heritage Turkey Hatch-A-Long

    My final batch of turkey eggs is in the mail due to arrive this week. I may have gone overboard, but I was feeling pessimistic in my predicted hatch rates. I'm going to have a lot of eggs incubating. As most of the eggs went into the incubator on Friday, there isn't much to report with them...
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    High Altitude Heritage Turkey Hatch-A-Long

    The new batch is in! I let them all settle for about 24 hours, then weighed them before setting them in the incubator. As I put the new ones in I removed the old ones. I candled them all and weighed them. With the new humidity level several of the old eggs had actually gained a slight amount...
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    High Altitude Heritage Turkey Hatch-A-Long

    There have been many developments. I weighed and candled the eggs on Day 10, and was met with rough results. The eggs had lost far more weight than expected, and they had already lost significantly more weight than they should have by the end of the whole process. The candling revealed a...
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