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

[Manningjw]

Some pictures of the bator:




Below is a picture of how I am planning to regulate the humidity without opening the incubator. I have strung a syringe pump IV line through one of the vent holes of the incubator and taped it in a position to drain into the water wells. To increase the humidity, all I have to do is inject water via the syringe into the incubator wells. In the last 3 days I may need to add a second IV line into a second water well to up the humidity to 60+%. So far it works great.

 

[ChooksChick]

Has everyone got tutors going if you have turkeys cooking? If not, you might want to set some chicken eggs soon or have a lead on where to get day-olds close to your turkey hatching date so you have someone to teach your poults how to eat and drink...more than once in a while! Seems they get how to do it, just don't remember to do it often!!

Hope everyone is happy and healthy. I'm cold and grumpy. We're getting showers (GOOD) but it's muddy (BAD) and the temps are down again (BAD) and the sun isn't shining (BAD) and my kids are getting whiny (BADBADBAD) because they are home-schooled teens and it's dreary and lonely right now (BAD) and I'm wishing I could nap all day because I need sun (would be GOOD if I could, however I can't- BAD).

Insert severely whiney smiley here.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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I love my hoop coops! (even have a link in my signature.. lol)
Love my hoop coop that we made last year! Works really well and easy to make. We made it usable for winter by making a hay bale hut inside with an insulated cover roof. Lost some square footage, but it kept the bird fairly warm in the very cold winter we've been having. If our temps ever start getting warmer, the hay bales will come out and the birds will have more room to move. We are planning on doing another this summer to move into the fenced garden area once the garden is done. Of course, I will need this snow to melt away so that I can actually have a garden this year.

I love them too and I was checking the article out! looks easy enough. But I think I will sell them, DH has just picked too many fights over them at this point.
Somethings just are not worth fighting over.

I have no clue what a trio would sell for though. clem is from thanksgiving hatch and the girls are from newyears eve.

 

[wildriverswolf90]

Be thankful it is not snow.  Woke up to about an inch of the white stuff on the ground this morning.  Sooooooooooooooo ready for spring.

awww so jealous we got absolutely no snow this winter. I love snow

 

[dsqard]

Quote: Here you go. This picture was taken yesterday

So jealous of the fact you didn't have snow this winter. Just sayin'

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: Here you go. This picture was taken yesterday

So jealous of the fact you didn't have snow this winter. Just sayin'

OM MY is that for real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sighhhhhh HOW AMAZINGLY GORGEOUS!

 

[HEChicken]

Has everyone got tutors going if you have turkeys cooking? If not, you might want to set some chicken eggs soon or have a lead on where to get day-olds close to your turkey hatching date so you have someone to teach your poults how to eat and drink...more than once in a while! Seems they get how to do it, just don't remember to do it often!!

I totally forgot

Actually, I kind of forgot about the turkey eggs altogether (something about them being under a broody hen rather than in my incubator). Only thing is, the broody hen they are under will have ducklings hatching a week before the turks, so I need to pull the eggs and put them in my incubator for the last week. Which means I will be raising them in a brooder. Which means I need tutors. Gah. I really don't want any more chicken chicks, but maybe I'll have to get a day old or two from the feed store when the time comes (hoping they still have some by then).

My first four turkey eggs are due to hatch this weekend and are under another broody hen. Her 3 eggs are due to hatch the same time. So those lucky poults will have both a mother and tutors to help them get started.

Maybe if I'm lucky I'll have another hen go broody this week and I can give her the remaining turkey eggs to hatch and raise. I had a silchin considering it, but when I put her in the broody coop she promptly decided brooding is for the birds and wanted out. After two days I let her out and she has neither laid nor acted broody since. Grrr.

Now I have turkey eggs building up again on my kitchen counter. Does that mean I need to order another incubator?

 

[ChooksChick]

Quote: Here you go. This picture was taken yesterday

So jealous of the fact you didn't have snow this winter. Just sayin'

OM MY is that for real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sighhhhhh HOW AMAZINGLY GORGEOUS!

Indeed! So lovely...just keep it there, will you?

OK, I'm off to the farm. Gotta get some fences fixed, and there's a hen I need to nab.

 

[yinepu]

this was today's mail.. only 3 broken




24 Ameracauna
24 Bantam Frizzle X (possibly) Silkie
12 Silkie X
4 Silkie X Ameracauna (one survived shipping)
4 Buff Laced or Gold Laced LF Brahma X Bantam Frizzle Cochin / Silkie
2 green Silkie / Cochin / Brahma
2 mystery eggs
4 older, end of season Sebastopol eggs (probably infertile.. but I can't complain since they were free)
and from another source.. 7 Toulouse eggs

I still have 6+ Mandarin, 6+ Bresse, 20+ Euskal Oiloa, 18 Ancona duck, and 6+ Dorking eggs that should be here eventually (in transit)

 

[Razadia]

I set just over 2 dozen eggs under my two stubborn broodies. 2 white game projects, and the rest are a mix of RIR and BA/RIR. We took our 16 game chicks to the feed store this morning. They always love to get them. My 3 Easter chicks are upset that they're gone.