A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[OneMountainAcres]

I do not know whether the Eastern Wild was a Wild turkey or if it was a Domestic Eastern Wild. The ones the hatcheries sell really have had a lot of the wildness bred out of them and are not the same as a real Wild turkey.

Oh, well she's half wild, whatever it's running around the words lol. The guy I bought the hatching eggs off of saw was that a while turkey had gotten to his flock. And that babies would be either prep bourbon red or crossed with wild.

 

[rjohns39]

What's that song...."Girls just wanna have fun"...comes to mind when I read of the wild ones seducing y'alls boys! So what do your girls do when the wild bunch pays a visit?

R2elk... are you leaving the eggless hen sit on her one egg of unknown orgin?

My girls just go on about their business as if they just don't care... The wild Toms will show up every now and again, fluff, strut and gobble along the fence line, and then go on their merry way. It will be interesting to see what the poults look like next month.

 

[Molpet]

my lone turkey hen has gone broody after laying 42 eggs. I had given 21 of her eggs to broody chickens so I only had 3 of her eggs to give her... better than none. I'll see if she sticks with it and can raise them up.

 

[duluthralphie]

I have the RP broody again. I am letting her sit on 3 eggs.
She is not overly bright..

I picked her up and held her under my arm. She did not fight at all. She was compliant.

I took all the eggs out from under her but the three. I put her back on the eggs. I went into the house taking the chicken eggs with me.

I came back out, with marking pens, and lifted up her side and grabbed two eggs. She again was compliant. I marked the eggs and slid them back under her and grabbed the last egg.

I took it out and marked it. I slid the last egg under her and she decided it was time to act tough. So she sat there and hissed at me while I put the egg under and then looked at her.

Her eggs have about 5% chance of hatching. She is not smart enough to hatch them.

 

[Finnie]

My first bug-eyed baby of the year! Two days early! Wasn't due until Monday, but I put them all in lockdown early yesterday because this one was already pipped.

Three of the others were internally pipped when I moved them to the hatcher. But none of them have externally pipped yet. They are from different mothers than this one. I wonder if that is a factor. I know my incubator was running about a degree high but I didn't want to mess with it. I did turn it down a degree yesterday though for the next two week's worth of eggs.

This poult is from my Broad Breasted Bronze hen. Sweetgrass split to narri father. Who is probably also semi-pencilled with one red factor. (Elderberry)

 

[memphis]

Aww...it's a bug eyed berry!! Congrats Finnie!!

All these babies! Can't wait to see pics of them as they grow!

Off to take my girls for a stroll. Such gadflies!

 

[PolarBerry]

So the eggs on day 30/31 got egg-topsied today. 1 was underdeveloped and dead, 1 was a murky yolk and I’m glad it didn’t explode, and 12 of them were fully developed and either didn’t pip (4 of them) and 8 of them were apparently trying to pip/unzip but towards the ground and they died partially out... so they probably got knocked over by the early hatchers. The humidity was 78-86% during all the hatching.

Is there anything that can be done for sibling knock around casualties?

 

[dheltzel]

Latest hatch was 15 of 16 eggs! Very happy with that. 9 are RP's, the rest are Mottled Blacks and Silver Dappled.

 

[aliciaplus3]

One of my turkeys that is a week and a half old

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Latest hatch was 15 of 16 eggs! Very happy with that. 9 are RP's, the rest are Mottled Blacks and Silver Dappled.

Have you ever had any surprise penciled palms hatch from your group? I'm trying to figure out who the heck in my group is hiding penciling genes? I know it's not Mister, my penciled Tom because he wasn't here last year and I hatched one then lol.