Bad luck with hatching turkeys - any ideas?

[hinkjc]

Hatching temp for most species is 99.5-99.7 (chickens and turkeys) in a forced fan incubator. Still air should be around 101 for either. Turkey eggs do not ship well either. Could have been a combination of slightly high temps and shipping.

Jody

 

[MandyH]

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I was just telling him MY experience. I didn't say every situation was like mine.

 

[deerman]

My guess the shipped eggs are your trouble. I will NOT ship eggs on these hot days, also hen may lay but the males dont bred as well in the fall.
100.5 will not kill the poults. just make them hatch early

Turkey and peafowl eggs are harder to hatch without shipping, and if you can get 50% that a good hatch rate.

Need to keep your incubator in a room with control heat and humdity.

 

[sandspoultry]

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Go to the gqf website and you can get the settings for a hovabator, I'm pretty sure it's 99.5. I'm curious as to which breeder told you 100.5, we know quite a few of them. Care to share? I would love to ask them where they got 100.5 from.

Steve in NC

 

[sandspoultry]

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I beg to differ, 1 degree in temp can make a difference in hatching. We run our 'bator a 1/2 degree warmer and our eggs usually hatch on day 26. We stop turning at 25 days. I'm thinking another 1/2 degree and they would be hatching even sooner when they are still turning.

Steve in NC

 

[deerman]

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I beg to differ, 1 degree in temp can make a difference in hatching. We run our 'bator a 1/2 degree warmer and our eggs usually hatch on day 26. We stop turning at 25 days. I'm thinking another 1/2 degree and they would be hatching even sooner when they are still turning.

Steve in NC

Note I said 100.5 would not kill the poults, yes it will make a difference in hatching times, as I also said.

With 24 % hatch rate . More trouble than a 1 degree higher temp.

 

[sandspoultry]

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50% is a good hatch rate? I hope you mean on shipped eggs? Our hatch rate here is in the high 90% range.

Steve in NC

 

[deerman]

Yes on shipped eggs, I also have a high hatch rate on my turkeys.