Today I found the first turkey egg from my 5 Red Bourbon turkey hens (raised from one-day-olds last July)!
The hen was acting really strange this morning, going into the corn crib away from the others, chirping excitedly, and tonight there was a huge, spotted turkey egg! I'm thrilled.
I'm going to spend the weekend building some nests and big turkey pens. I know I'm counting my turkeys before they're hatched, but I would love to have 10 eggs hatch out of each of the 5 hens. Does anyone have any ratios of hens to successful hatchings?
Will 5 hens and a tom in one large pen/run sit on 5 nests?
A friend suggested just getting a banty hen and putting the turkey eggs under her to be successful.
The hen was acting really strange this morning, going into the corn crib away from the others, chirping excitedly, and tonight there was a huge, spotted turkey egg! I'm thrilled.
I'm going to spend the weekend building some nests and big turkey pens. I know I'm counting my turkeys before they're hatched, but I would love to have 10 eggs hatch out of each of the 5 hens. Does anyone have any ratios of hens to successful hatchings?
Will 5 hens and a tom in one large pen/run sit on 5 nests?
A friend suggested just getting a banty hen and putting the turkey eggs under her to be successful.
