Broody Turkey Thread!!!

[CarlieO]

Thank you so much

I realized I never followed up!!! So sorry!! So here's the end of the story: On Super Bowl Sunday (which was day 18, lockdown, for the chicken eggs she'd been sitting on) she decided to move to the nesting box next door. I found the eggs, likely about a half hour after she had moved. They were already cold (it was below freezing all that day) and, upon candling, dead. I was so mad at her!!!! She tried to be broody for days after that but for some reason she would change nesting boxes every couple hours and lay on different eggs. I had tons of eggs that had been 'incubated' for about 24 hours. Thankfully she's over it and laying her own again. I need to get her a 'man.' (a Tom, lol).

 

[chicken farmer]

I realized I never followed up!!! So sorry!! So here's the end of the story: On Super Bowl Sunday (which was day 18, lockdown, for the chicken eggs she'd been sitting on) she decided to move to the nesting box next door. I found the eggs, likely about a half hour after she had moved. They were already cold (it was below freezing all that day) and, upon candling, dead. I was so mad at her!!!! She tried to be broody for days after that but for some reason she would change nesting boxes every couple hours and lay on different eggs. I had tons of eggs that had been 'incubated' for about 24 hours. Thankfully she's over it and laying her own again. I need to get her a 'man.' (a Tom, lol).

That sucks she couldn't make up her mind but yes a tom would be nice for her

 

[Twinkkitten]

So every day now I go and grab Turkey Lurkey and put her out with the hens and take the egg. She drinks water and then goes right back to the coop. She hasn't been the same since she starting laying. Seems depressed. Should I remove her nesting box?

 

[chicken farmer]

So every day now I go and grab Turkey Lurkey and put her out with the hens and take the egg. She drinks water and then goes right back to the coop. She hasn't been the same since she starting laying. Seems depressed. Should I remove her nesting box?

Poor turkey hen,I wouldn't remove the nest box and I would give her some chicken eggs that are fertile and or let her sit and when it's about the time poults should hatch buy some off a hatchery or somehting than slip them under her

 

[Twinkkitten]

Turkey Lurkey quit laying eggs 4 days ago. She is back to herself again.

 

[Twinkkitten]

Turkey Lurkey is laying eggs again. I get about 4 per week. She only goes in her nesting box to lay. She is very active!

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

Penelope is sitting. She started on (as I recall) the 27th, with one egg and two golf balls... When she'd stayed the second day, I gave her the remaining saved eggs and managed to get one golf ball away - so she had six eggs and one golf ball.
The day this was taken, there was egg mess outside the nest - you can see it at the lower right - the volume of one egg, but no shell fragments so I don't know if she tossed one out or perhaps laid a shell-less egg while up. I tried to rouse her to see, and that just ain't gonna happen, LOL.

 

[chicken farmer]

YAY!!! I love the broody turkey that is FANTASTIC .....love it please keep us updated

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

Update - Penelope's eggs are not fertilized. When all the ones in the incubator were clear, I fought my way in and candled the ones she was setting on - all duds. I took them from her & left her a golf ball, which she stayed on, and ordered some fertile eggs for her. They arrived today, and I just put them under her. I put three in the incubator, so I can 'keep tabs' on them, and will try to slip any poults that hatch in the 'bator back under her after they dry. I'd really like her to raise the babies herself!

 

[chicken farmer]

Update - Penelope's eggs are not fertilized. When all the ones in the incubator were clear, I fought my way in and candled the ones she was setting on - all duds. I took them from her & left her a golf ball, which she stayed on, and ordered some fertile eggs for her. They arrived today, and I just put them under her. I put three in the incubator, so I can 'keep tabs' on them, and will try to slip any poults that hatch in the 'bator back under her after they dry. I'd really like her to raise the babies herself!

Sounds like your a great ''mother/father'' to Penelope and your awesome for buying some fertile eggs,most people would just not let her keep sitting. Thanks for the update and I hope some poults hatch!!