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I think I now have turkey addiction and I just got info on quail eggs locally...... ummmm I guess I am glad the chicken coop is so nice, cuz I may be living there soon lol

I am guilty..... and I can admit it

Correction VERY addictive! Lol

Ok someone asked for pics we had a very cooperative plant for our phot shoot the turkey ...... not so much lol

The last turkey hatched overnight!! Whoot whoot

You didn't see the turkey in the back craning it's head to see over??? I had 2 turkeys hatched but one died....... I was lazy and left the heating pad flat. The only thing I could figure is it overheated??? WTH? Fixed my heating pad into the broody cave hope that fixes my mysterious dead...

Ok left for a little while and came home to find the black turken dead??!? Wth??? Oh well two more hatched another turkey and another turken.... yeah!

Ok so I am a little behind the rest lol. I got home and counted 6 chicks and a turkey hatched so I got everything ready to transfer and as I was gathering them up I realized 2 more had hatched! 2 turkens!

On a positive note, I have several internal pips and one external( it's a turkey) whoot whoot

I have one internal pip on a turkry egg!!!!

Yup the turkey eggs were my first hand turners lol

Ok 4 turkey eggs and 22 chicken eggs in lockdown I think there are only 4 extera thermometers in there....... lol I was surprised to see that 3 of the turkey eggs are starting to shadow so I hope that is a good sign

I will candle one last time before I move the eggs to lockdown but at day 15 we had 4 turkey eggs and 22 chicken eggs looking good! I am ready to see all the cute chick pics!

Lockdown is tomorrow!!! Ahhhh I can't tell if I am excited or nervous. Got the hatcher all set up I hatch in my Chinese knock off... not as good for the incubation period as my brinsea but holds humidity wonderfully for hatching. I put down a holy shelf liner over the plastic "floor" of the...

Lots of different opinions on wheater to assist or not. I believe the rule is 24 hrs from internal to external pip.... me personally if I start getting concerned after or around 24 hrs I will start a safety hole..... now keep in mind this hole is simply to let more oxygen in not for you to see...

Just candled and all 4 turkey eggs and 22 chicken eggs look good with nice veins and movement! One more week ...... wow

My daughter just reminded me we tend to name groups of chicks when they are in the brooder....example the current grow outs are the velociraptors and my youngest daughter has already dubbed the turkeys in the bators to be t-rex's so there is that

Mine don't normally get names until I know they are hens or a keeper roo..... actually some of my long time hens don't have names...... and my kids find my names to be unimaginative, we have a white leghorn roo named white

So I pulled a clear tonight..... one of my green ones. ugh I love finding those green eggs..... maybe I will hatch some more turkens??? Never know I did have a turken roo in with one of my green layers

Lol the turkey eggs came from another poultry enthusiasts that lives near me she rescued the bbw from someone who had no idea what they were getting into, but I believe they were hatched this spring. The only thing I could figure was it had something to do with being bbw? I wondered if because...