Now I have to get this right. They have started to hatch.

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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Steve, I know that this is normal practice and I wouldn't dream of arguing against it, but how does it compare with the natural incubation process? I see our hens moving their eggs around but will they stop doing that at the crucial moment? How do they deal with humidity? I'm guessing that the answer is the 'human' method produces better results but I'd appreciate an expert view, please.

Ta.

If you watch them when the eggs start hatching the hen won't come off the nest at all. As the eggs hatch the liquid in the eggs/ the wet poults is what raises the humidity under the hen. I think they do stop turning the eggs because you almost never find an egg pipped with the pip hole on the bottom and the poult dead.

Steve

 

[thaiturkey]

Thanks for the information, Steve. We have little choice at the moment to let nature take it's course. Darned clever these turkeys, though. Then they have survived as a species for longer than mankind, I guess. It will be interesting to compare their results with that of science in the future!

 

[briana1975]

We have 7 poults. All well and in the brooder. 2 died over night one starting to rip and one almost done zipping and the poults tipped the eggs sometime threw the night and they didn't make it out.

5 eggs nothing, I left them in the bator and if nothing tomorrow morning they will all get thrown out. 5 of the poults that hatched are Daisy's.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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It's very very interesting how they have ever survived without our "help". You are a watcher and a learner Thai and will do very well with your turkeys in time.

Steve