**~~>>Second Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatchathon<<~~**all poultry welcome!

[superchemicalgirl]

I have a few crossbred duck eggs and crossbred goose eggs if anybody is interested. I ask should have tutor eggs as well (I'm swimming in eggs right now)

I also have pekin eggs... there may be a cross with a rouen potentially, but the rouen generally doesn't mate the pekin girl.


I do wash my duck eggs, but I've never gotten anything but 100% hatchability from them, even washed.

 

[Gardengirl73]

I have bantam blue langshans and wheaten ameraucanas coming, is the 8th or 9th to early to be a part of the hatchathon?

 

[HEChicken]

I have bantam blue langshans and wheaten ameraucanas coming, is the 8th or 9th to early to be a part of the hatchathon?

We are setting the turkey eggs on the 7th so the tutors would be set the 14th to hatch at the same time. So if you get them the 9th, perhaps hold them for a few days before setting?

 

[tazcat70]

So the bus driver called and said she is in for 3 turkey eggs!!!!!

I would love to set some Cayugas. My daughter has been asking for a couple of ducks FOREVER! She finally picked a breed. I am torn, because I could get a couple from the feed store for less than shipping on eggs.

Jim, how are your Wellies and RIR's laying?

 

[Gardengirl73]

Must be all the "clean living" up there in Maine

Ah gawd Maine. I miss it like a limb. Like 2 limbs. At least I get to visit my Dad.

 

[DURR]

So this little guy was born last week and I just noticed he has cross beak. I'm not sure how bad it will be eventually but he's eating good right now. The hubby wants to cull him but I just don't have the heart too, just incase its not to bad. What's your guy's take?

 

[Gardengirl73]

We are setting the turkey eggs on the 7th so the tutors would be set the 14th to hatch at the same time. So if you get them the 9th, perhaps hold them for a few days before setting?

I'll probably be getting them on the 7th or 8th.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Ah gawd Maine. I miss it like a limb. Like 2 limbs. At least I get to visit my Dad.

Where's your dad located?

I do love it up here but the winter is a bit long. I get squirrely. Still - peaceful and beautiful. Warm today (in the 50s) but had a woodstove fire in the basement while we were building the hive to take a little bit of the damp off. Nothing like the warm feel and smell of that. The tide has turned and it is definitely spring, even if it snows again. Hope, promise, renewal. So many months of gorgeous warm weather ahead of us.

 

[Gardengirl73]

Awww. Tell hubs ya can't cull for a little TMJ.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

So this little guy was born last week and I just noticed he has cross beak. I'm not sure how bad it will be eventually but he's eating good right now. The hubby wants to cull him but I just don't have the heart too, just incase its not to bad. What's your guy's take?

Culling mine was one of the hardest things I have had to do. He was so skinny because he couldn't eat well. Always made a huge mess of his mash, attracted rats because of the mess, couldn't clean himself and got mites, but the sweetest little thing in the world. I culled him right before winter because he couldn't overwinter with my regular flock of layers and the rest of his friends went to freezer camp. There wasn't even enough meat on him to make stew. I'm on the fence as to whether I should have put him out of his misery earlier - so skinny, food obsessed, mite-ridden, but I think he did live a good life, for as long as he did.
That being said, if I had another one I would cull it as soon as I noticed it. I can't go through that again. You get really attached to them because you have to feed them and protect them.