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

[yinepu]

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I agree.. i want those birds!

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i've met a few of those cows.. they also had several at the Ralston Purina research farm when I was there

 

[cuppycake]

SCG is going to fashion a candling box from an industrial sized spotlight.

 

[karimw]

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Poor babies will be blinded!

 

[debs_flock]

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I've never sanded any of my BCM and they've hatched without any issues. Just treated them the same as any other egg. Good luck.

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Ewww, they had one of those on an episode of Bizarre Foods recently...............it was truly gross to see

And no matter how much they said it didn't hurt the cow................I'm not buying it. Of course at one point, when she was finished eating, they removed all her food to analyze it. I guess she got to eat again..................

Medically induced bulimia???

 

[dsqard]

SCG trying to candle an emu egg

 

[ronott1]

There is a person posting about hatching Russian Orloff and silver Phoenix eggs.

Does anyone know if they usually hatch on time? They are on day 22 with no action yet and the person is worried.

 

[ChooksChick]

Quote: There's a diagram on my Incubation Cheat Sheet (in my signature) but it's got the date lines for chickens. You'll want the lines to look similar on days 11 and 20 thereabouts.

Quote: Tilt the incubator 3+ times daily. I keep humidity ~30% or lower until one of them pips. You'll find the benefits of dry hatching in my Cheat Sheet, as well. I don' candle until after a week, later on turkeys.

Yinepu has a turkey instruction sheet for allllllllll the goods.

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I wouldn't. I think you'll want to just go dry until pip day.

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I want emu. I do. ....but I live in town. My breeding facility outside of town is only about an acre.

A cow with a window is sadistic and hideous.

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I've never sanded any of my BCM and they've hatched without any issues. Just treated them the same as any other egg. Good luck.





It depends on how well you do with Marans. If you've consistently had trouble, this method is something else to try.

 

[tazcat70]

Ok,

Broody hen contest is created. If you have any suggestions please let me know.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...second-annual-cinco-de-mayo-turkey-hatchathon

 

[yinepu]

SCG trying to candle an emu egg

Quote: There's a diagram on my Incubation Cheat Sheet (in my signature) but it's got the date lines for chickens. You'll want the lines to look similar on days 11 and 20 thereabouts.

Quote: Tilt the incubator 3+ times daily. I keep humidity ~30% or lower until one of them pips. You'll find the benefits of dry hatching in my Cheat Sheet, as well. I don' candle until after a week, later on turkeys.

Yinepu has a turkey instruction sheet for allllllllll the goods.

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I wouldn't. I think you'll want to just go dry until pip day.

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I want emu. I do. ....but I live in town. My breeding facility outside of town is only about an acre.

A cow with a window is sadistic and hideous.

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I've never sanded any of my BCM and they've hatched without any issues. Just treated them the same as any other egg. Good luck.





It depends on how well you do with Marans. If you've consistently had trouble, this method is something else to try.

 

[ChooksChick]

Do you guys have any idea how long it takes to comb through this thing looking to see who isn't on the front page in the participants list?? If I'd been smart, I'd have set up an entry form on Google Docs.

Sheesh!!!

Anyway, I'm adding folks here in a minute, but that skimming-thon made something very apparent: Arielle and CMfarm don't have avatar pics!! I'm afraid that's unacceptable.

You must do something!!!

Anyway, I'll go update the front page before I head out...big storm moving in and I need to make sure the coops don't blow away, etc. Ah! Kansas!