Help needed with deserted egg

Tracieee

In the Brooder
Oct 25, 2019
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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
 
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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