I am pleased with the little buggers, it was 85 out today so I decided to open up the brooder to see if the poults would go out and explore. Chicks usually don't want to explore much when they are just 11 days old. Well the poults were out in about a half hour exploring and chasing bugs and...
The humidity was about 40 percent during my hatch, I took kuntrygirls advice throughout the whole process. I am new to hatching turkeys, this was my first and I'm about to start my second hatch and will still follow her way of doing it, she has many years experience with turkeys. She is the one...
I'm sure they do fly, I've been raising chickens for years now and have been clipping their wings and I'm sure turkeys are the same. If you want them to stay in the fenced in area you'll have to do something. I'm just starting out with turkeys and really don't know much about them. You may want...
Wow, they are beautiful! I can't wait for them to grow up too! The poults I just hatched are very friendly, I took a video of them last night after my wife put a mirror in their brooder. We had a good laugh! I'll post it on here after I get it set up on you tube.
I hope I get it right this time, the sad thing is that all the eggs had fully developed, I think I lost them the night before the hatch when the temp dropped down to 95.
I took a good look at the incubator and realized the temp control is counter clockwise for increase and clockwise for decrease...
I had problems with the hatch but I'm grateful for the few poults that did hatch.
I had 3 chicks and 3 poults hatch, the poults are on the right, one is pecking at my wife's ring.