First of all I am in no way a turkey expert like the ones on here that answer all my useless questions. This is just some advice I can give using my little experience hatching turkey eggs. I have hatched ALOT of chicken, duck and thousands of quail eggs and I've always used the same routine hatching method for trying to hatch turkeys 50 to 60% humidity, don't open the bator at lockdown you know the routine. My first hatch this year was 50% using the old analog dial type farm innovators bator for a hatcher. Out of 4 eggs that all showed life only 2 hatched. Now I'm on my second hatch and yesterday and today was hatch day. I incubate in a new digital version of the farm innovators. I only dry incubate never adding water. This time I bought a nurture right 360 to try out and use as a hatcher. I've noticed with this unit the temp and humidity doesn't fluctuate like the farm innovators one does. Maybe that was the big difference also in success.I had 9 eggs all showing life. This time around I kept my humidity at 75 to 80% starting on day 25. I also pulled out each egg when I saw the shell pip and used a knife tip to poke a hole in the external membrane where the poult had broke the shell then replaced each egg. Always making sure the humidity stayed at 70 or higher afterwards. So far this morning 8 of the 9 eggs are successfully hatched. These eggs also traveled for 2 hours yesterday with me to my farm riding in the passenger seat in the bator. I have a 120 volt plug like most vehicles now days on the dash so I was able to keep the bator running. Anyway I know it's kinda long winded this won't make everyone's hatch rate increase but it's something to consider if your turkey hatch rates are low like mine usually are.
