~*Third Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatch-Athon*~ all poultry welcome!

[winteree]

There are a lot of reasons an egg might not develop, especially shipped eggs. I wouldn't be too quick to jump to the conclusion that they were not fertilized.

yeah ill know for sure when i break open the eggs that don't hatch.

i hope i get at least one baby out of this

 

[winteree]

Oh I DON"T want that to be me.lol

My head hurts.

I agree.

i don't know this is first time hatching out egg's they may surprize me but i still haven't seen anything to tell me other wise that their is anything inside these eggs

i just hope i get one babay out of this

 

[winteree]

nah.. you don't have to raise them with chickens.... I have a brooder full right now that have never met a chicken.. and they are doing great!


lol.. my adults are pretty darn nosey.. have to see what I'm doing every time I walk out in the yard...
for the poults I use marbles too... even bits of chopped greens in the food and floating on the water will work


I have bulbs in some of mine and cartridges in others for heat... wafer thermostats in some and digital in others... with light bulbs heading the way of the dinosaur I may end up switching all of mine over to the cartridges..

i don't know my gramps always had a bad opinion about turkeys and i never knew why

 

[winteree]

Like this???

Lay out all eggs on a towel on the floor and mist with . . what temp water?? warm?? and how long will they sit there-- you said until dry, right. OTHerwise no point in adding more moisture to the incubator. How many times a day can this be done?? 1? 2?







Feeling woried is normal-- I was a worry wart the whole first season hatching-- often up at midnight candling after kids and dh in bed and had time for myself and the eggs. lol Can you see the air cell getting bigger?? Yes, the eggs do fill up with a chick and gets"dark", but the air cell will continue to enlargen ( is that a word?, lol) until hatchiing. Air cell should follow the diagrams.

Any one have a diagram of aircells handy? Maybe one for chickens and one for turkeys?? I like the colored one but don't know where I stored it!

Adorable!!

i can't find the air cell on one of the rir egg's and on two of the bantam eggs the air cell is almost half of the egg but most have moving air cells so i don't know if that makes a difference

 

[Arielle]

Quote: I hope you do toooo!!

Quote: My only experience is my sweet BR which prompted me to buy Porters turkeys whch are also sweet-- the grain guy wanted to know when I was getting rid of them . . . .turned out he had had bad experiences with turkeys . . . I assured him my boys would only supervise the unloaded of the grain and not attack . . . .

 

[winteree]

I hope you do toooo!!

My only experience is my sweet BR which prompted me to buy Porters turkeys whch are also sweet-- the grain guy wanted to know when I was getting rid of them . . . .turned out he had had bad experiences with turkeys . . . I assured him my boys would only supervise the unloaded of the grain and not attack . . . .

who knows the only turkeys that i have every been around is the huge white ones i don't remember what they are called but they where mean birds you had to grab their beaks so they wouldn't peck at you when you your feeding them or changing their water or doing anything in their inclourser now that i'm thinking about it. in fact that was my job when i was at my grandma's when i was a kid was to go in the pen first and grab their beaks so grandma could change out their bedding etc. But i have heard this was most likely because she got them at 1 year old. I wanted to get some but i heard that larger breeds can't mate on their own i wanted them to continue their lines before i culled them have you heard anything about this?

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

@ronott1 @SilkieSensation@yinepu what do you think of this day 20 duck egg?

The air cell believe it or not has healed some. It was much worse.

 

[ronott1]

@ronott1 @SilkieSensation @yinepu what do you think of this day 20 duck egg?

The air cell believe it or not has healed some. It was much worse.

@foxvalleyfarm

I have a good feeling about that egg!

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

@foxvalleyfarm I have a good feeling about that egg!

Really? Even with the bad air cell? I do to but I wiry for the baby. Also none of the others have a clear bottom like that.

 

[ronott1]

Really? Even with the bad air cell? I do to but I wiry for the baby. Also none of the others have a clear bottom like that.

It may be a bit behind. Hopefully it will keep going and catch up with the others.