Hatching Goose Eggs - Can a turkey incubate them?

[fancbrd4me02]

Okay, so I havn't incubated goose eggs before, and my Tufted Roman goose who was sitting on a nest when I ordered sebastepol eggs has quit sitting. Now the eggs are here and I have 2 choices: 1. Incubated the goose eggs in my hovabator. 2. Let my broody turkey incubate them. (I would mist the eggs, etc.)

What do you waterfowl hatchers think i should do?

 

[Friend2Fowl]

I rarely have good luck putting shipped eggs under a broody anything, but I would say that if she is a 'seasoned' hatcher, it shouldn't hurt. If this is her first time, I'd try her out with something less expensive

 

[crowbirdwoman]

hello, i would put the eggs under your broody turkey at least you have a broody turkey mine won't , maybe later they are just 10 months old she will hatch them fine and hopefully she'll be a good mom. if she is she'll have a fit when they go into the water and do not come back when she calls. i let a hen hatch goose eggs, she was a riot when they'd go into the water keep your camera ready.

 

[Hillside]

No turkeys here so we haven't tried this ourselves but a friend used turkeys as his hands down first choice method for goose eggs.

 

[GardienneWings]

I have not tried Turkeys on goose eggs but I have a couple turkey hens here that when they go broody they STAY broody for months on end. They are BY FAR the best thing I have found to incubate peafowl eggs, I would not think goose eggs would be any different except for the identity crisis when they hatch

Val