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    Sexing poults?

    I have a bunch of Bronze poults, about a month old. They all look pretty much the same to me. Some have little snood bumps that are bigger than the others' - are these ones boys? Also I've seen one or two of them kind of puffing up at each other- holding their wings out from their body and...
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    I have inherited a hen

    Someone just left a sick turkey on your doorstep? Instead of dealing with the problem themselves? Jeez. Some people shouldn't have animals/birds in the first place! Sounds like she's getting great care - is her curled toe any better now? Please post some pics when she's recovered.
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    How to sex turkeys help ASAP

    LOL! Sounds like a female. Not a female turkey specifically, just a female as compared with a male...
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    New turkey keeper with day old poults and questions!

    Aawww, they ARE very cute looking. I may have similar 'dispatching' problems a few months down the line. Mine aren't double breasted, just normal Bronzes, so they should be able to live and mate and all that stuff quite normally. I just love the noises turkeys make. Already notice that mine are...
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    New turkey keeper with day old poults and questions!

    Ah, thanks. So if these ten poults are five male and five female, I'd only really be looking to keep one of the boys then...
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    New turkey keeper with day old poults and questions!

    PsS. The one with the curled toes has just died, so I won't get to try straightening them out. I guess it just wasn't right straight from the start. It was oddly shaky and didn't really try to stand up. The one I pulled out of the dried up egg is now out of my incubator and in with the other...
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    New turkey keeper with day old poults and questions!

    Oh, another question: Do turkeys mate up like chickens or like geese? Like, do they pair off or does one male need several females?
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    New turkey keeper with day old poults and questions!

    Well, I'm hoping to pick out the best ones and keep them for breeding, and sell the spares for Xmas dinners. I don't think they'll be full size by this Xmas though so there's every chance I'll end up keeping them all if they're friendly and they've all got different little turkey personalities.
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    New turkey keeper with day old poults and questions!

    TBH I think I was hooked the first time I heard a bunch of turkeys all shouting at their owner as he went over to their pen to feed them. Saw it on a TV programme a while back and have had a hankering after them ever since. They're just hard to track down over here (I'm in the UK) and also...
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    New turkey keeper with day old poults and questions!

    I got a bunch of day old Bronze poults today. Going spare at the place I work - they were hatched to order for a guy who got his collection dates mixed up and realised he didn't actually want them till next month! So I got a few questions... I'm treating them pretty much the same as I would...
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    My first rhea egg!

    Oh wow! 465g for a 'pullet' egg! That's pretty amazing. I'd eat it. Well... I mean, I'd maybe manage to eat HALF of it. LOL! Do you know how many eggs a year they're supposed to lay?
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    What to do with the "early bird"?

    Well, they can go up to 72 hours without food or water after hatching, so it would almost certainly be fine in there. I've done that before and it's always worked out okay. But it can get a bit annoying when they start kicking the other eggs all over the place. I tend to go in quickly, take out...
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    humidity after hatch?

    Your unhatched chicks will not drown due to 90% humidity at this point. If your humidity has been correct throughout the incubation and your eggs have already lost the correct amount of moisture, they'll be fine. Chicks drown inside their shells when your humidity has been consistently too...
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    Question about hatching

    Quote: Yes, perfectly normal. Once the chick pips the shell, it can be anything up to another 24 hours before you start to see any more progress being made. This 'resting' stage is an essential part of the hatching process and as long as everything else (temp, humidity etc) is correct, you...
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    Reasons for fertile eggs not developing?

    Yes Ridgerunner, very funny to suddenly be given the additional information and have the whole focus of the problem instantly change from being the birds' fertility to the owner's storage and incubation methods. I also thought about storage conditions but figured incubation temp itself was...
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    Reasons for fertile eggs not developing?

    Another forum I'm on, somebody asked a question about fertility. Eggs from their own birds. Said they weren't developing in the incubator and sometimes they were getting only one developing egg out of a whole batch. Poeple gave various advice about feed, trimming tail feathers and checking the...
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    Dead on day 20

    Fill a cup with ice, then cold water. Swirl it around a bit and stick your thermometer in. It should read 0 degrees centigrade, which is (I think but PLEASE check this...) 32 degrees fahrenheit. Some of the fancier incubating thermometers, like Brinsea's one, only measure a narrow range of...
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    I discovered something cool

    Wow. That's pretty cool all right. But I don't have a Brinsea Mini so can't try it for myself. Good luck with your ducklings. Make sure to keep your humidity up high for them!
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