Are Your Hens Setting On Eggs Yet? 2012 POULT FORECAST

[A.T. Hagan]

I set fifty five or thereabouts eggs last Saturday. Twenty five of them Standard Bronze and the remainder Midget Whites.
I'll candle them next week and if I have a good development percentage start selling hatching eggs afterwards.

Well, it seems I was wrong. I did not set 55 turkey eggs after all. In fact it was 62. I recounted them last night when I did the ten day candle. The amazing thing about it though is that every single one of them appears to be developing!

We're going to be overrun with poults by the end of the month if the hatch percentage is good.

 

[Olive Hill]

Well, it seems I was wrong. I did not set 55 turkey eggs after all. In fact it was 62. I recounted them last night when I did the ten day candle. The amazing thing about it though is that every single one of them appears to be developing!
We're going to be overrun with poults by the end of the month if the hatch percentage is good.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I have a turkey hen that has been setting up camp in the woods and I knew nothing about it. I busted her yesterday. She is setting on 12 eggs.

 

[newduckie]

My turkey continues to lay an egg every other day. In the coop... Wherever it falls among the poop!

 

[sbucciarel]

Hi all. I have a hen and tom Bronze turkey, both young. First season for the hen to lay eggs and she is laying an egg every day. The tom is strutting and certainly calling a lot, but I haven't seen any breeding going on. I've put a batch of her eggs in the incubator, but I have a feeling that they are not fertile.

Ordered an egg candler and will candle when that arrives but in the meantime, I ordered Eastern Wild/Bronze cross turkey eggs and they just arrived today. They will go into the incubator tomorrow. Looking forward hopefully to some poults from that batch of eggs. I got the eggs on Ebay and the guy who sells them has all kinds of great feedback, including high rate of hatches from the shipped eggs.

Suzanne

 

[yinepu]

I have one bronze hen that wants to go broody... but i won't let her.. I've been hatching out the poults in my Reptipro .. 100% hatch rate and some cute little mutts!

 

[kuntrygirl]

I have had 5 more poults to hatch as of yesterday. My girls are setting on a total of about 25 more turkey eggs.

 

[yinepu]

I've been trying to talk her out of it.. but she's determined.. so finally I relented and let her have 8 eggs.. then reconsidered and gave her a total of 12.. I figured if she breaks any (first time broody) that hopefully she will have something at the end of her setting... and if not I'll give her a few poults from the incubator

as you can see.. I'm not her favorite person at the moment... lol

 

[coberdor]

I've hatched out about 15 of my own. I hatched an additional 16 buff jersey from eggs I bought. I have another 14 midget whites and 14 of my own in the bator now. I have hens sitting on about 20 more, but the problem is since they are all trying to set on them, some get uncovered by their fighting. I've saved some of these from them and finished them in the bator. I wish I had more broody hen space available to separate them. Mine have been very nasty to retrieve them, hissing, biting, good thing I use gloves. I finally found an easy solution - I use my husband's golf ball retriever for retrieving the balls out of the water. It extends from 3 - 5 feet. Perfect size. LOL. They really grab the golf club and try and shake it! They should be good mother hens if they ever quit shoving each others eggs out of the nest.

 

[CailetTempest]

Of my 3 girls we have 10 eggs in the incubator. There are 2 nests in the pen. one has 8 eggs and the other has 11 eggs. I have 2 girls and 1 tom that rotate sitting on the nests. It amazes me that the tom actually was setting on the next but between the 3 of them the 2 nests constantly have someone sitting on them. Its my first year with turkeys so will see how things go.