A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[AllycatAlley]

What if i got 2 with tall snood and 2 with short hardly no snood

 

[OneMountainAcres]

How about a poult strutting at 5 days old??? I am thinking tom

I had a young poult strut on day one. I named "him" Prince. PrinCESS is now all grown up and very much a hen lol

 

[duluthralphie]

What if i got 2 with tall snood and 2 with short hardly no snood

Too young to make much difference at their age

 

[aliciaplus3]

I have 2 that are 5 mths....I think I am now sure that one is a hen the other a tom... of course she is laying eggs and he struts non stop. Lol

 

[PolarBerry]

40 eggs in! Going to remove the red plug soon since was just trying to get it to warm up after leaving the lid off while loading.

99.5 degrees, 53% humidity, auto turner on. I’m planning on candling after a week to ten days (or should I do sooner to remove any duds?)

Excited and hope I get some poults!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

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40 eggs in! Going to remove the red plug soon since was just trying to get it to warm up after leaving the lid off while loading.

99.5 degrees, 53% humidity, auto turner on. I’m planning on candling after a week to ten days (or should I do sooner to remove any duds?)

Excited and hope I get some poults!

I would definitely wait until 14 days to candle. Turkey eggs are notorious for not showing development early. Also, I think your humidity is a bit high. Personally, I would keep it to around 35% for the first 25 days then bump it up to 60% for lockdown.

 

[duluthralphie]

I would definitely wait until 14 days to candle. Turkey eggs are notorious for not showing development early. Also, I think your humidity is a bit high. Personally, I would keep it to around 35% for the first 25 days then bump it up to 60% for lockdown.

I have tried candling turkey eggs before day 11 it is near impossible. I now wait until I candle the chicken eggs at day 18 to make a decision on turkey eggs.

I agree 35 is where you want to be.

 

[PolarBerry]

I got it to 42, is it being this high going to harm them? Outside in the nests it’s about 70-90% humidity just because it’s oregon and raining.

 

[duluthralphie]

I got it to 42, is it being this high going to harm them? Outside in the nests it’s about 70-90% humidity just because it’s oregon and raining.

Are you running without water in the humidifier? If it is high humidity I have to run the humidifier in the basement and then add water in the incubator.....Kind of vacuums.

 

[R2elk]

I got it to 42, is it being this high going to harm them? Outside in the nests it’s about 70-90% humidity just because it’s oregon and raining.

If you have the humidity too high during incubation, you will fail to get enough moisture loss to get the air cells big enough and the poults will fail to hatch.

Read Hatching Eggs 101 by @Sally Sunshine