Hatching Turkey in a Dickey's?

[ColbyNTX]

Do I leave off the lid in the hatching tray for turkey? I have hatched chicks, guineas and quail but this is my first turkey attempt.

Thanks

 

[A.T. Hagan]

As I'm finding out these last couple of days if you leave the cover off the hatching trays you need to fashion a barrier across the back side of each tray to keep the poults from falling out and getting caught between the trays and the back of the incubator. I used some aluminum foil folded over several times to make it stiff enough and just short enough to fit but taller than the inside of the trays. Once I did that I then put the trays back in pulled forward far enough that they just touched the inside of the door so that they could not fall out that way either.

Just took some more out this morning for the trip down to the brooder.

.....Alan.

 

[Blisschick]

This has been a problem for me with chicks, and I've been trying to figure out a way to fix that. I have an old GQF Sportsman that's been modified to add an extra tray, and the chicks keep hopping over the front and back of the tray. I have poults pipping now, so I don't want to open it until they've hatched, but I might try the foil thing and see if it works. I never thought about pulling the tray forward, but I don't think it will work, since there is a small space on both sides of the tray. I can move it to one side, but that only makes the space along the side bigger. I can't put the foil along the sides because then it wouldn't fit back into the slot under the tray above it.