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[chiqita]

A neighbor just came over and wondered if I would incubate Turkey eggs for them.

What is the deal with Turkeys. Are they difficult?

More then chicken, less then duck unless they are shipped. They are More sensitive to issues with Humidity and may need help to not smother in the shell. is it his eggs or shipped eggs? Don't start learning with shipped eggs, lol.

Turkeys however learn to live MUCH better with chicks or quail. has the neighbor actually raised poults before?

 

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So is a broody better than a brinsea?

Trying to decide which eggs to put under my broody and which ones to put in the brinsea with humidity pump.
I would say normally the broody is better, but the brinsea is too.

She's never crushed eggs. Last broody time she got moved off her nest just once, but put her back on and no issues.

I think there are variables with either. Broodies are better at keeping the right temp/humidity and you don;t have to worry about power outages. Brinseas are less likely to decide they don't want to incubate and not likely to get run off the nest. You also don't risk predation with an indoor incubator.

 

[casportpony]

 
A neighbor just came over and wondered if I would incubate Turkey eggs for them.

What is the deal with Turkeys.  Are they difficult?

More then  chicken, less then duck unless they are shipped.   They are  More sensitive to issues with Humidity and  may need help to not smother in the shell. is it his eggs or shipped eggs?  Don't start learning with shipped eggs, lol. 

Turkeys however  learn to live MUCH better  with chicks   or quail.  has the neighbor actually raised poults before?

True, but the ones I've seen still try to die even when raised with chicks, but maybe it's hereditary, or disease? cause my only experience has been with the ones hatched at the local feedstore and they
lose 90% of theirs. I used to "rescue" them, but that was just too hard on me.

And then there's blackhead...

-Kathy

 

[chiqita]

True, but the ones I've seen still try to die even when raised with chicks, but maybe it's hereditary, or disease? cause my only experience has been with the ones hatched at the local feedstore and they
lose 90% of theirs. I used to "rescue" them, but that was just too hard on me.

And then there's blackhead...

-Kathy

In my limited experience Turkeys need to be shown how to eat and drink and watched for 3-4 days fairly closely, or they never pick it up. Feed store turkeys that get shipped seem to never learn food good. I try and have 2 week old quail in with turkey hatches if they are not with momma. The turkeys LOVE watching the crazy hyper psycho quail, and will follow them to food and water. I'll set eggs all 3 at the same time, and have them in the same brooder ( turkey quail and chickens) while the turkeys are babies. My mother turkey did not take her babies out of the big coop until they were almost 2 months old. Most people wait till 2-3 months to put them on soil. They are fragile. You would think you would be worrying about the small quail and not the honking turkeys, but not so much!

When I sell turkeys, I give out copper sulfide and a blackhead warning ever since UC Davis put out the alert last year. I don't trust people to order it to have on hand, and you don't have time to order it if you HAVE blackhead in your soil. But then again, I give people the cocci lecture too, I'm paranoid.

 

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Do they ever have them in Santa Rosa or Yuba.. maybe Woodland?

 

[CackleJoy]

In my limited experience Turkeys need to be shown how to eat and drink and watched for 3-4 days fairly closely, or they never pick it up. Feed store turkeys that get shipped seem to never learn food good. I try and have 2 week old quail in with turkey hatches if they are not with momma. The turkeys LOVE watching the crazy hyper psycho quail, and will follow them to food and water. I'll set eggs all 3 at the same time, and have them in the same brooder ( turkey quail and chickens) while the turkeys are babies. My mother turkey did not take her babies out of the big coop until they were almost 2 months old. Most people wait till 2-3 months to put them on soil. They are fragile. You would think you would be worrying about the small quail and not the honking turkeys, but not so much!

When I sell turkeys, I give out copper sulfide and a blackhead warning ever since UC Davis put out the alert last year. I don't trust people to order it to have on hand, and you don't have time to order it if you HAVE blackhead in your soil. But then again, I give people the cocci lecture too, I'm paranoid.

Thank you all for the input. Yes, these are eggs the neighbors gathered from their hens. They just butchered their TOM at 48lbs. The have all manner of fowl. These people are used to having broody hens do their work and have never messed with the eggs. I can't believe them sometimes. They just go about their days and chicks just appear with no apparent effort. I, on the other hand am OCD about storage and incubation and find it to be WORK to get eggs to turn into chicks! LOL

They had 40 eggs, up to a month old and wiped them with a damp towel before bringing them over. They were stored on top of the fridge. I had them leave me 2 doz of the freshest (figuring with 3 hens they probably get a dozen a week) and we'll know in 10 days or so if any are growing! It shall be an experiment. I'm kind of hoping a few hatch so I can keep one for Christmas dinner.

 

[chiqita]

Ok, mini rant here. Why do people always think others are deliberately trying to screw them up? I do know the Po is frustrating, but really? they know the PO tries to break and throw anything fragile?? Don't write on it, if it says fragile they will break it! And people who insist if eggs don't hatch they are infertile. Clearly nothing to do with your incubator or the fact its amazing anything shipped hatches at ALL. Why in the WORLD would I bother to send you infertile eggs and have to deal with you yelling at me???

Poach an egg, then tell me if you see a bulls eye in it. No? That is what can happen when it is in the incubator for 21 days! None of this is being directed at me, but the lack of faith we have in other humans, and the desire we have to immediately attack some when or something when stuff goes wrong makes me frustrated and sad. Its no wonder so many people stop selling eggs.

Sorry, this is a nonjudgmental place to yell.

 

[chiqita]

Thank you all for the input. Yes, these are eggs the neighbors gathered from their hens. They just butchered their TOM at 48lbs. The have all manner of fowl. These people are used to having broody hens do their work and have never messed with the eggs. I can't believe them sometimes. They just go about their days and chicks just appear with no apparent effort. I, on the other hand am OCD about storage and incubation and find it to be WORK to get eggs to turn into chicks! LOL

They had 40 eggs, up to a month old and wiped them with a damp towel before bringing them over. They were stored on top of the fridge. I had them leave me 2 doz of the freshest (figuring with 3 hens they probably get a dozen a week) and we'll know in 10 days or so if any are growing! It shall be an experiment. I'm kind of hoping a few hatch so I can keep one for Christmas dinner.

put chicks in there now, lol, to train the darm turkeys. If you look like you have pipped eggs that wont hatch PM me and ill tell you weird turkey stuff.

 

[CackleJoy]

Thank you all for the input. Yes, these are eggs the neighbors gathered from their hens. They just butchered their TOM at 48lbs. The have all manner of fowl. These people are used to having broody hens do their work and have never messed with the eggs. I can't believe them sometimes. They just go about their days and chicks just appear with no apparent effort. I, on the other hand am OCD about storage and incubation and find it to be WORK to get eggs to turn into chicks! LOL

They had 40 eggs, up to a month old and wiped them with a damp towel before bringing them over. They were stored on top of the fridge. I had them leave me 2 doz of the freshest (figuring with 3 hens they probably get a dozen a week) and we'll know in 10 days or so if any are growing! It shall be an experiment. I'm kind of hoping a few hatch so I can keep one for Christmas dinner.

These are the same people that just sent over a piece of freshly processed pork (roughly 5lbs of meat) and want to carry their chickens across the street for me to examine. I'm inwardly shrieking NO!!! NO GERMS!!! Instead, I say, "Oh, I shall have to come over for a little tour (when I can wash my shoes afterwords!). Incredibly generous people whom we are blessed to have as neighbors. They are just clueless about biosecurity and disease. And you know what? They don't have problems either. Interesting to me as I am borderline (okay - full blown) paranoid and am now experiencing COCCI for the first time.

I've never seen bloody stool. I've panicked. It was my own fault for letting the chicks out too early. It was such a sunny day but I guess their systems were not quite ready for the ground. I'm off to get Corrid. Tried on Saturday but TSC doesn't carry it and I was too late for Nasco. Super dosed them with liquid dispersable probiotics and they are all still running around eating and drinking in spite of the bloody poo so I'm hoping the Corrid works.

I can use Corrid in this instance - right? I have 10 days to 4 wks chicks in the broody house.