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    Poult price

    I live in WNY I have a flock of 16 heritage turkey poults. I’m considering downsizing. Wondering how much I can charge per poult? They are currently 2.5 months old. Hatched on 5/22-5/25. We have bronze, black Spanish, Narragansett, a few mixes. Just wondering an acceptable idea.
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    Week by week, a helpful picture guide to aging goslings.

    Mine are creeping to 6 weeks old.
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    Will my goslings and ducklings harm my chicks?

    So I had to put my chicks 4 weeks same age as my goslings outside for a day while my shed was moved. Well for one we almost lost one in the pool because it thought oooh a drink. Then mostly they stayed separate. It was time for me to bring them in and as soon as I opened the playhouse door to...
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    Pilgrims

    thank you for the congratulations. I know they are similar so that is the hard part. All the babies are mostly grey so they could be anything. 😂
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    Pilgrims

    Here they are I brought them outside for better daylight.
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    Pilgrims

    I ordered 3 pilgrim eggs and a set of 6 Toulouse, American buff, pilgrim eggs. So now I’m trying to figure out which ones hatched based on how they look. Out of 8 eggs only 4 hatched. I think only 3 are pictured here though At the time the 4th was in the incubator still. I’ll post another couple...
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    Sticky poult

    I have been working on him off and on all day long. So I used warm water in the sink and got i hope all the gunk and shell off of him put him back in the bowl with a dry paper towel, back in the bator closer to the heat and 🤞 he will be ok.
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    Sticky poult

    thank you this is very helpful.
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    Sticky poult

    Will this work? otherwise all I have olive oil
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    Sticky poult

    I had a turkey poult in the incubator to hatch. Well it’s membrane got stuck, it’s out, it’s got bits of egg shell on it and it’s eye is stuck open as theres some membrane I think stuck there, also it has a little yolk sack at the end of it. I have it in a bowl with damp paper I put it’s bum on...
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    In need of advice

    I did video the one with the crack but, I Don’t know how to upload iPhone video here. Wondering how long I should wait to see if they hatch now that I candled them tonight.
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    In need of advice

    its a farm innovators 4250 forced air. Since I added water now the humidity is up to 73% so I don’t know if I should lift the lid again or let it go. I don’t want it to drown. I don’t know how to calibrate so I guess I’ll have to look that up.
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    In need of advice

    I had 5 turkey eggs set to hatch over the last weekend. Yesterday one hatched a day late. There is also 2 in there that were supposed to hatch a week ago today. So 7 total. I left the one that hatched yesterday in there all night so he could entice the others to move it along I removed him this...
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    Comment by 'mswendeu' in article 'Guide to Assisted Hatching for All Poultry'

    I had 5 turkey eggs set to hatch over the last weekend. Yesterday one hatched a day late. There is also 2 in there that were supposed to hatch a week ago today. So 7 total. I left the one that hatched yesterday in there all night so he could entice the others to move it along I removed him this...
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    Incubating

    I did also, let the humidity run out for about a week when I realized the air cells weren’t big enough. So during that period it was running Between 25-30 give or take a little right before lockdown.
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    Incubating

    Day 31 until later this evening. The temperature was during incubating 99-100, the humidity was 35-40 until now. Now it’s 98.5 to 99 and 60% ish.
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    Incubating

    Im trying to hatch turkey eggs. Two of my seven eggs have been in lockdown since last Saturday for a Tuesday hatch. On Tuesday night I water candled and found one was definitely alive the other I’m not so sure. On Thursday night I set 5 bourbon for lockdown in a different incubator and put the...
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    Comment by 'mswendeu' in article 'Egg failure to hatch - Diagnosing incubation problems'

    I found this article very informative. Thank you for creating this thread. I am having turkey egg incubating troubles and I am glad to see this. I will just let it take a bit more time. I was wondering if the heat wasn’t high enough I’m not sure this is the case I’m only assuming so. Would the...
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    no hatching

    I am of no help I have two Royal Palm turkey eggs that were supposed to hatch Monday or Tuesday of this week. On Tuesday night I water candled them, one egg had definite movement the other I wasn’t sure. On Thursday night was lockdown for our 5 Bourbon red eggs. So I moved the others into the...
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    Hatching help Turkey eggs

    Thank you I hope this person sees this and has some suggestion. Today is lockdown day for the bourbons. And still there is no further advance on the RPs. I realized last night that the other incubator may potentially be leaking as I found water dripping from underneath. This could be the problem...
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