Last month a bear broke into my breeding turkey coop/run and massacred my entire flock. About $900 in birds, plus the hatching eggs. It took me over 2 years to find eggs from show quality stock, then another year to get the poults to breeding age. This was their first year and had only been laying about 2-1/2 weeks before the attack. And I was gutted at the loss.
As I was cleaning up all the remains and raking out the feathers and the crushed egg shells and all, I found one lone dirty, yolk crusted egg hidden and half buried in a corner of the coop there it had gotten kicked about during the attack. My first thought was...Nemo! So I carefully picked it and took it to the house, and marked an "N" on it. I had five other turkey eggs on the kitchen counter from the week my girls first started laying as I wasn't sure how fertile they would be, being their very first eggs and all. But taking a chance, I put them in an incubator along with the "Nemo" egg.
I really didn't hold out much hope in any of them hatching, but lo and behold, last night little Nemo hatched!!!! And two more are following!
As I was cleaning up all the remains and raking out the feathers and the crushed egg shells and all, I found one lone dirty, yolk crusted egg hidden and half buried in a corner of the coop there it had gotten kicked about during the attack. My first thought was...Nemo! So I carefully picked it and took it to the house, and marked an "N" on it. I had five other turkey eggs on the kitchen counter from the week my girls first started laying as I wasn't sure how fertile they would be, being their very first eggs and all. But taking a chance, I put them in an incubator along with the "Nemo" egg.
I really didn't hold out much hope in any of them hatching, but lo and behold, last night little Nemo hatched!!!! And two more are following!