A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[memphis]

I figured that was your death row guinea! Your grip is so tight it looks like her eyeballs are about to pop out.

 

[memphis]

false

 

[memphis]

Getting ready to head to Missouri today, for the holidays. Sure hate leaving the girls. My dogs go with me. My dear BIL already thinks I'm a traveling circus when I show up & unload dogs in his manicured backyard. He'd pass out if I unloaded the turkeys too...

 

[duluthralphie]

Tuirkeys should go with you...


If you continue up here I will send you home with Penguin and the death row guinea.

 

[dheltzel]

Day eight, I assume it is not fertile?

I would toss out an egg that was clear on day 8, as long as I had others the same age that showed development, otherwise keep it a bit longer. It's not going bad and it is much easier to see the clear eggs later in incubation. When you are an "old hand" at incubating, you will get a lot more comfortable identifying the clears early on.

 

[feistychick]

Getting ready to head to Missouri today, for the holidays. Sure hate leaving the girls. My dogs go with me. My dear BIL already thinks I'm a traveling circus when I show up & unload dogs in his manicured backyard. He'd pass out if I unloaded the turkeys too...

All the more reason to get the girls harnass trained - there could be serious entertainment value in that

Safe travels!

 

[Peep-Chicken]

I would not worry yet. I found they look like that for about 12 days then BOOM they look alive.

Or it could be infertile, but what is there to lose for keeping it a few more days,

I would toss out an egg that was clear on day 8, as long as I had others the same age that showed development, otherwise keep it a bit longer. It's not going bad and it is much easier to see the clear eggs later in incubation. When you are an "old hand" at incubating, you will get a lot more comfortable identifying the clears early on.

Alright, thank you all!. The other egg looks the same, except the yolk is a little lighter... So I should know more at day 10?

 

[duluthralphie]

Alright, thank you all!. The other egg looks the same, except the yolk is a little lighter... So I should know more at day 10?

Maybe, maybe not, I thought I read some where day 12 also. Keeping it longer to be sure is better than breaking it when you throw it out, and finding blood you missed when candling

 

[R2elk]

Day eight, I assume it is not fertile?

I personally don't candle turkey eggs until day 25 when I am moving them to lockdown. I have found it very common for the first couple of eggs laid to be infertile no matter how much breeding has occurred. I do mark my eggs with a pencil (others use a black marker) with the date gathered and a code for the hen that laid the egg if known. I store mine through the 14th day before adding to the incubator.

Good luck.

 

[R2elk]

@duluthralphie

If you get a Regal Red hen (b1b1 rr) and breed it to a Self Blue tom (BB DD), you will produce 100% Rusty Slates but they will be Bb1 Dd Rr instead of the normal Bb Dd Rr produced by the mating of a Self Blue tom and a Bourbon Red.

The Regal Red produced Rusty Slates when crossed with each other will still have the ability to produce 27 different color varieties only they won't be the same 27 varieties as the Bourbon Red produced Rusty Slates can produce.

One of the rare varieties they can produce is the Harvest Gold. All of the various Bourbon Red varieties would be replaced by Regal Red varieties.

If you cross the two different genotypes of Rusty Slates you get just the 27 different varieties of phenotypes but you get a lot more varieties of genotypes.

Have fun.