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

[Razadia]

Quote:

That's actually what I'm hatching!

 

[SilkieSensation]

Quote: Should be.

Quote: YAY! Keep us updated.

 

[HEChicken]

Okay folks, I'm really confused here. I just candled the other 3 eggs that have shown no sign of life. All three have pipped internally and I'm seeing movement in them. My first thought was that I must have written down the start day wrong. But then I remembered that debs_flock and I both set our first little batch of turkey eggs the same day (not by design but the day I set mine, she reported also setting hers). Her poults have all hatched. If I had been hatching in an incubator, I would say the temp was a little low and that's why they're hatching late. But since they were under a broody, I can't explain why they are all late to hatch.

What do you think of this theory? My body temp runs about a degree lower than the "norm" of 98.6. I passed that trait along to my offspring and when they had well baby visits as kids, there was always a frown following the reading of the thermometer. Anyway....we have set the temp at which eggs should be incubated, presumably based on what is closest to the mother hen, but if an individual person can have a low body temp, perhaps an individual bird also has a lower than average/normal body temp?

 

[SilkieSensation]

Okay folks, I'm really confused here. I just candled the other 3 eggs that have shown no sign of life. All three have pipped internally and I'm seeing movement in them. My first thought was that I must have written down the start day wrong. But then I remembered that debs_flock and I both set our first little batch of turkey eggs the same day (not by design but the day I set mine, she reported also setting hers). Her poults have all hatched. If I had been hatching in an incubator, I would say the temp was a little low and that's why they're hatching late. But since they were under a broody, I can't explain why they are all late to hatch.

What do you think of this theory? My body temp runs about a degree lower than the "norm" of 98.6. I passed that trait along to my offspring and when they had well baby visits as kids, there was always a frown following the reading of the thermometer. Anyway....we have set the temp at which eggs should be incubated, presumably based on what is closest to the mother hen, but if an individual person can have a low body temp, perhaps an individual bird also has a lower than average/normal body temp?

Quite possible. Or she could have had the turkey eggs at the outter edge of the nest more than the chicks & they just didn't stay as warm.

 

[Wisher1000]

I need your help!

Please go to the tie Breaker Thread and vote for your favorite poem.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/770469/cinco-de-mayo-poultry-poetry-tie-breaker-vote

It ends at midnight tonight, so hurry!

 

[yinepu]

Okay folks, I'm really confused here. I just candled the other 3 eggs that have shown no sign of life. All three have pipped internally and I'm seeing movement in them. My first thought was that I must have written down the start day wrong. But then I remembered that debs_flock and I both set our first little batch of turkey eggs the same day (not by design but the day I set mine, she reported also setting hers). Her poults have all hatched. If I had been hatching in an incubator, I would say the temp was a little low and that's why they're hatching late. But since they were under a broody, I can't explain why they are all late to hatch.

What do you think of this theory? My body temp runs about a degree lower than the "norm" of 98.6. I passed that trait along to my offspring and when they had well baby visits as kids, there was always a frown following the reading of the thermometer. Anyway....we have set the temp at which eggs should be incubated, presumably based on what is closest to the mother hen, but if an individual person can have a low body temp, perhaps an individual bird also has a lower than average/normal body temp?

a nest box will have a different temperature than eggs laid on the ground
your outdoors temperature will also have an effect on it
for example:
lets say you have a broody hen sitting on a nest and you live in Kansas where temps have been in the 40's (just for argument's sake since I don't know what your temps have been)

and I have a broody hen down here in Texas where our days have been hitting in the upper 80's

as the broody hen moves eggs around in the nest some may be on the 'fringe" (pushed out towards the edge of the nest).. my eggs wouldn't cool down as much because the ambient temps were in the 80's.. where yours would get chilled a bit since your temps are in the 40's thus slowing development more than mine would have

21 days is also an "average" since hens can hatch out healthy chicks as early as 18 days or even as late as 23 days..
so for incubation dates they just average it out and call it 21 days for chickens

edited to add.... 25 days for a turkey would be the earliest.. and 30 would be on the late end... with 28 being the average since they tend to average all avian dates.. even house sparrows can vary from 10 to 14 days for incubation

 

[DURR]

Won't let me vote

 

[debs_flock]

Okay folks, I'm really confused here. I just candled the other 3 eggs that have shown no sign of life. All three have pipped internally and I'm seeing movement in them. My first thought was that I must have written down the start day wrong. But then I remembered that debs_flock and I both set our first little batch of turkey eggs the same day (not by design but the day I set mine, she reported also setting hers). Her poults have all hatched. If I had been hatching in an incubator, I would say the temp was a little low and that's why they're hatching late. But since they were under a broody, I can't explain why they are all late to hatch.

What do you think of this theory? My body temp runs about a degree lower than the "norm" of 98.6. I passed that trait along to my offspring and when they had well baby visits as kids, there was always a frown following the reading of the thermometer. Anyway....we have set the temp at which eggs should be incubated, presumably based on what is closest to the mother hen, but if an individual person can have a low body temp, perhaps an individual bird also has a lower than average/normal body temp?

The answer is.................don't be so quick to assume you were in the wrong.

Mine hatched early, I didn't expect them until today.

But to show their resilience, at one point I ran out of turner room and I put two eggs in the bottom of the cabinet and intended to turn them by hand. I forgot them for like 3-4 days, so they didn't get turned at all in the middle. They still all just popped out. The chicken eggs that are due today were on a different shelf, they are just starting to pip (2 are out and a third is pipping, all bantams).

 

[Loghousemom]

I know I wasn't supposed to candle my eggs yet but couldn't help it. I have 18 tutors set. 13 shipped that were poo covered. I performed an expiriment with them and washed a few. So far it seems that of the shipped eggs I have 3 clears... The remaining 5 were my own and seem to be developing fine, I left them set for a couple more days because really I was only at day 5.

 

[tazcat70]

In addition to the 4 Bourbon Red eggs, I set 30 gorgeous Welsummer eggs from Soldier and another 40+ project eggs.

I really think I need to turn off my incubator soon. I have a batch of Spitzhauben eggs to be delivered, and after that I think I am going to turn it off....probably.....maybe....darn projects.