baby has arrived. made it out of shell and is doing great. Left it in the bator till this morning then put it into the brooder.. I keep showing it where the water is and it's starting to drink. It is also starting to eat the food. making lots of noises. Hubby said it looked like i had a baby...
We had some issues with the tom breaking an egg and our chickens thinking it was a nummy treat. So I gathered all the eggs they were sitting on. 19 total. Did quick candling to get bad ones out. Had a few stinkers too. Finally all said and done, I put 5 eggs into the incubator.
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I am anxious to see if my turkey couple will even have hatchers. I didn't keep track of when they started sitting but it seems like it has been forever. I almost want to candle the eggs to see but then again I am afraid to. What if they adults won't sit on them anymore if I mess with them? or...
Oh wow! those are such cute little babies. She was such a good momma too trying to lure the snake away.
My hen and tom are still sitting on their nests. Now they are rotating the eggs between the 2 nests. There is a total of 19 eggs under there and we have 3 recent ones in the incubator...
It was my first try with the incubator... I took it as a learning experience although dang it I so wanted the little buggers to hatch... I will definately try the incubator again at a later date. not sure yet if chickens, turkeys, ducks or hoping geese... lol
well the eggs in the incubator did not make it. had one explode on me. temps got too high 106 and humidty didn't want to cooperate. It was 5 days past hatch date so when candled them saw nothing but blobs. Since everything went wrong that could. daughter wanted to open the rest to see what...
Of my 3 girls we have 10 eggs in the incubator. There are 2 nests in the pen. one has 8 eggs and the other has 11 eggs. I have 2 girls and 1 tom that rotate sitting on the nests. It amazes me that the tom actually was setting on the next but between the 3 of them the 2 nests constantly have...