Help, I'm a newbie at incubating!

[Sally Sunshine]

That's great. Incubating can get really addicting. It's a lot of fun you will enjoy it. I have 25 eggs ISA brown 2nd generation left in incubator right now. On day 8. This is my first time collecting and incubating from these 26 chickens and 1 Roo. I started with 27 thinking maybe 50% fertility surprisingly all were fertile. I lost 1 within first day and 1 at day six because of some temp flux. But so far doing better than I thought. Want to see what these guys come out looking like since they won t be true to their breed and what their laying will be like before I start selling them. Their parents are great birds I get 25 eggs a day out of 26 hens and they are super friendly. Next I ll be trying to hatch some blue slate turkey eggs.

oh I also would love to hatch blue slates! they are gorgous! sometime I will be able to buy some eggs!!

 

[Saskfarmgirl]

Yes they are and crazy friendly. I had to build ours a cage in the barn cause she kept coming to the house when we got her. We picked up two last year she was the larger one of the two poults and unfortunately we had just gotten a pup who decided he wanted to play with the little one. So I need a male now for breeding. Hard to find breeders in Canada but I ended up finding a women in Alberta willing to ship me some eggs. Fingers crossed I do ok and get a male out of the six eggs I ordered. This women also brought in some new chocolate turkeys from the US so maybe next year. See how I do first. See what I mean addicting.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Yes they are and crazy friendly. I had to build ours a cage in the barn cause she kept coming to the house when we got her. We picked up two last year she was the larger one of the two poults and unfortunately we had just gotten a pup who decided he wanted to play with the little one. So I need a male now for breeding. Hard to find breeders in Canada but I ended up finding a women in Alberta willing to ship me some eggs. Fingers crossed I do ok and get a male out of the six eggs I ordered. This women also brought in some new chocolate turkeys from the US so maybe next year. See how I do first. See what I mean addicting.

ohhhh chocolate!!! google images coming up!

 

[kt6238]

Good luck on the Turkey Eggs.....Just now testing punt new waters on this end with incubating Turkey eggs. Wife placed 15 Blue Slate eggs in an incubator this last Saturday.

 

[Saskfarmgirl]

U will have to let me know how it goes. Good luck!