Help needed with deserted egg

Tracieee

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Sorry if I’m not posting this in the right place. I need some advice fairly urgently and I’m new to this. My turkey recently went broody and with no Tom I left her alone and didn’t think anything would come of it. But 5 days ago she hatched a chicken (sneaky girls had been depositing in her nest). She has been looking after it ok. But she hatched a second one today and smothered it. She has now left the nest altogether and set up
Camp somewhere else. So I’ve checked the remaining eggs. One has a chick chirping in it and one is trapping. My problem is I don’t have an incubator and no other broody birds. Should I help them hatch before they get too cold? I have a heat lamp but don’t know if that would be of any use with eggs. Any advice gratefully accepted
 
If you can use the heat lamp and get it up to around 90-95 degrees that should work since they are so close to hatching.
 
I hatched an abandoned egg on a heating pad. It was chirping and pipped. I put the heating pad in a sm plastic tote w lid, I used wet washcloth and a bowl of hot water to try to keep humidity up and the chick hatched overnight. Heating pad had auto shutoff and I had to keep resetting it. But we got a chick. Turned out to be a cockerel....
set up.jpg hatching.jpg
 
Sadly they didn’t make it, thank you for the advice, I suspect the temperature just wasn’t constant enough for them

I worry about the chick with the turkey, but they are very attached to each other and both get very stressed if I take the chick inside where it’s warm. I guess if it’s survived it’s girst week it will probably be ok, but not sure there’s anything I can do to help it
 

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Sadly they didn’t make it, thank you for the advice, I suspect the temperature just wasn’t constant enough for them

I worry about the chick with the turkey, but they are very attached to each other and both get very stressed if I take the chick inside where it’s warm. I guess if it’s survived it’s girst week it will probably be ok, but not sure there’s anything I can do to help it
I like your photo....I think they'll be fine together...
 

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