Our Broad Breasted Bronze Turkey Poults hatched.
Of the 10 eggs we had... 6 were fertilized. Two pipped and failed. One never pipped. We have 3 turkey poults.
So in love with these little guys. One is quite loud, guessing that one is the girl, jenny 💃
Love these guys.
Adding 3 new fully grown chickens to the bunch... in quarantine right now in chicken tractor.
Gave away 100+ chickens in the last
~8 months.
Hubby didn't know we were going to be taking these... hope it doesn't derail his support of incubating eggs.
Maybe the various cages of different aged...
How to control humidity in the incubator and post-hatch brooders?
Lots of people love sponges.
I hate having to throw these away after each hatch.
We are trying to limit contamination between batches. So something inexpensive that we can toss out after a hatch makes me happy.
Ever make...
Turkey Eggs Hatching & Poult Survival Rates
We have done so much research on every type of turkey and incubating them.
Anyone have any tips?
We have RH Relative Humidity Guage in this particular incubator. I'm not sure how to calculate the difference between wet bulb, relative humidity, dew...
This batch of 10 turkey eggs, 4 were not fertilized. So of the 6 potential good ones, 2 decided to hatch on day 26.
Only one egg didn't pip yet.
Super EXCITED.
*first turkey that hatched had splayed legs. Hoping with some TLC he'll make it.