- Apr 23, 2013
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just wondering when i put my turkey eggs in the incubator do i turn them every day from the day i put them in until the 25th day?
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[/QUOTE]I've learned by trial and error, hope this helps..unlike chickens, hatching turkeys are somewhat different..I use a still air incubator..Temp at 101.5 for first 24 days and humidity at 20 %… unless it's real dry where your set up is..(winters here are very humid,so I use 20 % ,checking it with a meat thermometer in the air vent hole,summers are hot and dry and air conditioning takes humidity out of the air so 35-40 % summers.)
Making sure temps never go below 99°… on day 24 you remove Turner,raise humidity to 80% and drop temp to 98/ 99° at the same time..!! Never keep high temps and high humidity, embryos will die quickly at this stage..always..change these at the same time during lock down stage...this seems to work very well for me..I was getting hatch rates of 10- 20 % until I read and used this method..now my hatching rate is above 80%… before I would have great progress during the first three weeks and dead chicks in the shells during hatch times..not sure why but they do better with less heat when you raise the humidity the last few days of hatching..humidity is very tricky during hatching with turkeys..Hope this helps..happier hatching...
I really wish in all my reading i had seen this 24 days ago. it would seem i am destine to learn everything about turkey hatching the hard way.
I've lost all but one egg (it's day 24) i followed advice about 50% - 55% humidity and now i'm in the home stretch with one survivor with a day 10 size air cell. I've dropped the humidity to 20% and i am hoping the egg is a few days behind schedule so i can get the air cell bigger. I'm going to up humidity as soon as i see a pip but holding out til then... which is all i can think to do.
I just paid $10 for 4 heritage breed fertile turkey eggs. This is my first time hatching as well so I will be doing some research first.