Thank you for all the great posts here. I am finally having a "decent" hatch of turkey eggs, thanks to the advice of many people here, especially Steve of Sand's. I turned my incubator down to 99.7F and 55% humid for incubation and 98.5 for hatch and 85% humid. and used shaved down foam egg...
Hi All -
Looking for help with incubating wild turkey eggs. Have Rio Grandes and just finished a disastrous hatch with my new GQF incubator. Out of 20 eggs, about half were infertile. Of the remaining eggs, all developed into complete chicks, but only one successfully pipped out and is...
Has anyone ever had a tom go broody? I have one who is a five year old Rio Grande who has taken turns with a hen - presumably so she can get up to feed each day. It is amazing to see - he very gently slides in next to the hen, and tenderly scoops the eggs with his beak til they are under him...
Help everyone! I placed an order with Surehatch Incubators for a Hova Bator 1588, egg turner and candler, calling the phone number on their website (because I don't trust using internet for purchases to unknown companies - silly me). I used my debit/credit card and was told my total with...
Help everyone! I placed an order with Surehatch Incubators for a Hova Bator 1588, egg turner and candler, calling the phone number on their website. I used my debit/credit card and was told my total with shipping is $190. I did not go through PayPal. Next day I received an email from...
I've been practicing candling my chicken eggs, but the ones I really want to hatch are my wild turkeys and wild/bbb crosses. Anyone here have any advice on how to actually see into those thick, speckled monsters? !!!! My wilds and BBB eggs are epicly thick and tough! I don't think my standard...
New here - I have chickens and Rio Grande & a broad Bronze hen that mates and some Wild crosses. I had the wilds actually hatch some of their own eggs last year with the help of my banty hen, but the turkey hens get crazy if allowed to hatch their eggs out (imagine 4 very angry 15 pound gals...