Coldupnorth, thanks for the offer!
KlopKlop, yep if it all goes well, I will have a turkey raising chicks, Which she is doing very well at and this hen raising poults, at least one.
These are the eggs the turkey abandoned after the chicks were hatched. I picked them up and moved them into the incubator. I thought they were dead, but it was worth a try to hatch them. There were three, the turkey never let me see what was under her or I would have pulled the turkey eggs out.
The one just hatched, They were suppose to hatch yesterday, but I suppose they got cool when she abandoned them and I lost a day. I have been keeping the humidity at 50% just in case the last few days, I came in for a sandwich and heard the noise in the incubator.
I went out and put new wood chips under "hussy" and rolled her last surviving egg out from under her, I then laid the 2 unhatched turkey eggs with her last egg. ( the rest have exploded, and yes it stinks near her) That is another reason for new wood chips. She rolled the unhatched eggs under her, turkey eggs and hers.
I then lifted her and put more wood chips under her an snuck the poult under. At first she looked like she was going to kick it out, She pecked at it once lightly, then lifted her wing to give it a place to lay. So I think ( fingers crossed) She is a Mommy. If she was not a hen I could handle and was not so friendly this might not have worked during the day. BUT I really wanted the poult to imprint the hen instead of waiting until nighttime after it had seen me.
