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The thermostat turned out great. I got about 90 percent hatch rates on a hundred and fifty chickens and about 80 percent hatch rate On 60 turkeys. For some reason my hatch rate on Turkey's has not been as good as chickens. The biggest problem I had was calibrating the temperature as I did not...

The thermostat turned out great. I got about 90 percent hatch rates on a hundred and fifty chickens and about 80 percent hatch rate On 60 turkeys. For some reason my hatch rate on Turkey's has not been as good as chickens. The biggest problem I had was calibrating the temperature as I did...

Thanks everyone for the replies....I think i will try a staggered roost for them that allows them to start low and jump higher...hopefully they would jump to higher roosts.. Thanks!

I have a question for other Turkey owners.... Currently, I have Black Spanish Turkeys and we really like them. However, they do not seem to want to stay on our property, which pisses off one of our neighbors. The 9 acres we have is completely fenced in with woven wire fence (to keep the...

Well our last hatch just had 14 turkeys hatch. We have 6 eggs left that have not hatched yet. I am still not having the success that I have with chicken eggs but this is better than my last turkey hatch.

Well we had the first one hatch this morning a day early and we have one more piping that we can tell. I am hoping for a successful hatch!

Ok.... I have another question. Our turkeys are laying eggs in our pasture. However a couple of turkeys have been jumping our fence and laying their eggs near the creek where there is good cover. The problem is something has been eating those eggs and a couple days ago kill the turkey pictured...

I got the digital controllers from amazon. This is the link to it. I have been happy with it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00F05UI8O/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I was bummed my turkey hatch did not do better, I had been picking them up daily from my turkeys....as seen...

We just got done incubating 30 turkey eggs. We had about 15 turkey eggs hatch and 11 so far survived. I was hoping for a better hatch...... We had previously had an 86% hatch rate on chickens using the same incubator....so not sure why the turkeys did worse. We have another 22 turkey eggs that...

Morning, I put in 120 chicken eggs and they are now hatching. The hatch date was today about 7 Mountain time. They started hatching yesterday and as of now we have about 50 chicks in the cabinet incubator....like I can accurately count them all! There are numerous ones piping. My question is...

I posted this question earlier in the thread and have been playing around with the brooder quite a bit since then. As stated above I have an incubator that is identical to my Brooder except for the incubator has automatic turners. I can get the incubator to be consistent with in half a degree on...

Our inubator was about a degree low from what I could tell and only 10 of 40 chicks hatched and they hatched a couple days late. I would say if it was 94 degrees and then no.......they will not hatch. Sorry....but you willneed to try again. I found the thermometers were not accurate and had to...

I have an older incubator and a matching Brooder. My incubator, I can get to stay pretty consistent temperature on the top two racks but the bottom rack is about a degree or a little more colder. However, my BRooder I can't seem to get to be consistent at all on any of the racks. This seems...

Well, I cracked the remainder of the eggs open Monday night and found 23 more dead chicks. All of them similar to the above pictures I posted. They looked like they were about a day from hatching. From the comments given in the previous posts, it is likely my temperature was too low? I have...

Thanks for replying..I just cracked open 2 eggs and they appear to be plenty moist as you can see in the picture and about a day away from hatching. So I'm wondering if the temperature perhaps had more top play in this then the humidity? however I do plan on raising the humidity for the next...

Ok....I have a question on my incubator. I put 60 eggs in the incubator on Wednesday February 4, 2015 about 7 pm. After candling on day 18 (2/22/2015), we got rid of 15 eggs that were not fertilized. The hatch date was supposed to be last Wednesday February 25, 2015 (i.e. 21 days). Two Birds...

Yep.....tried that.....but in my limited experience turkeys refuse to go inside to roost. They much prefer the outside in a tree or on a fence in -20.....can't say I understand it?

I agree it is a good door.....my questions is how do you get you turkeys to actually go in at night? Mine will stay out and roost no matter how cold it is. They refuse to go in...lol

Turkeys are definitely fun. My wife and I had some Bronze turkeys about 8 years ago and although they could not fly they did have leg problems. One of the toms we butchered weighed in at just over 50#'s butchered. We had these turkeys with chickens on 1/2 an acre. We really did not have...