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They are both very lovely! I can't wait to find out the sex of mine, I wonder at what point in their development that it becomes "obvious"

First, I want to say how HAPPY we are to have made it to 12 weeks of age .. no major mishaps, and healthy happy turkeys is what we have. Here's an updated pic from yesterday... On the left side we have the 2nd hatched (hoping for a girl), the yellowish poult featured earlier, on the right is...

Here we go with another update. These little guys will be 6 weeks old in 2 days and they really are just pretty cool. Hey Deerman (or anyone in the know) can I start giving them cracked corn or scratch or anything? I don't even know if I should wait on cooking veg scraps here... any advice...

THANK YOU SO MUCH DEERMAN I really appreciate your comments, so unsure about myself, it's nice to know I have a vote of confidence out there. The brooder is quite large... large enough to put in a divider and keep 2 full grown turkeys. It's intended as the brooder which wich will connect to a...

2.5 weeks old! They are darling! As big & sturdy as 3 week old chickens Pretty sure ones a girl and ones a boy due to their very different markings, but don't know which is which! One is light with a pattern, the other seemingly mostly solid.. both show the same brown tone, just different...

So.. the turkeys are a couple of weeks old now, and they are living outside in their brooder. We had an incident with cannibalism in the bird cage brooder so we had to put them in something larger and seperate them for a couple of days, but all is back to normal now, I suppose. If normal is a...

The other egg didn't hatch. I gave up today when it started to smell in there something AWFUL from the other hatchers.. I tapped on it.. heard nothing... candled and saw no movement or progress.. i did NOT open the egg, I've had enough heartbreak the last week or so... I kept waiting &...

It's been quite the ordeal but I have TWO TURKEY POULTS! Here they are.. aren't they DARLING!!!! now.. I better go finish that brooder I was stalling on... I guess I really didn't expect anyone to hatch.. maybe that's why they did Added: I posted a bunch of hatching photos here...

Well, it may have been a stupid decision, but I decided to let it ride. Hoping that these last 3 eggs (from the 2nd batch) will just magically work out. I know that the humidity was lower for them than it was the first batch but it would appear that the temps may have been a tad too high. The...

Deerman, thanks. I did let them sit overnight upright, but I do feel as though the chick was stuck somehow.... upside down Next hatch is next week.... contemplating using a carton or something for hatching

Well.. Ranger, our Lone Turkey has died before hatching. I picked up the egg today to see what was taking him so long, and found that he had pipped on the bottom and as I peeled open his egg... I found he was also backwards in the shell.. breech you know. I just finished crying, because it's...

Quote: Thank you deerman for the tips. I have a 26% turkey starter from purina mills ready and waiting for my new heritage turkeys! I'm nearly finished with the brooder with a wire floor and a plywood area for relief.. here's the last pic I took.. This will connect to a sunporch and since...

Flyingmonkeypoop.. Thanks, you got my back....

Well.. today is off to the hatcher for "Ranger" our lone turkey! I candled quickly on his way to the hatcher and he looks great still! I carefully positioned the aircell upwards and now we wait.... WHILE I had the incubator open I candled the rest of the remaining turkey eggs, due to hatch...

Well.. i candled "turkey" last night, our lone turkey, and he's still kickin & growing. He moves to hatch position on Monday. One monday I will candle the 2nd batch of eggs to see if there are any more turkeys coming the following week. I sure hope lone turkey has at LEAST 1 friend for the...

This morning I cracked the eggs we removed from the bator last night. 7 eggs cracked 5 infertile 2 fertile & not developed So with the one growing thats 3/8 that were actually fertile. OH BOY are turkey shells & membranes TOUGH! Turkeys that actually hatch have GOT to be strong!

:| Tonight we candled eggs, both chicken & turkey. Of course we candled the first batch of turkey eggs that are currently on Day 8. Unfortunately, we lost 7/8 eggs. The one left looks strong & healthy to me, a novice, and is very active with good veins. The rest were clear as a light bulb...

I am very excited to see what happens with these. Of course as I hear it everything is stacked against me, wrong season, shipped eggs, turkeys are fragile; dumb etc. But still... I'm a Pisces, we are unrealistically hopeful by nature, and so I moved forward with them anyhow. Theres still 3...

My second box of turkey eggs arrived 2 days ago. They were not as well packaged as the first bunch. When I say that I mean that the first package was a large box stuffed with newspaper/paper shreds and a smaller sealed box containing bubblewrapped eggs nested inside of that. Ontop of the...

Rambar that's exciting & promising! Thanks for sharing. Any Buffs in your bunch? I would love to see a pic, oh heck, I'd love to see a pic of any of them...