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

[foxvalleyfarm]

Awesome is it a duck egg?

Yep an Ancona.

 

[southernflock14]

Ok so my dad found a Turkey nest doing some dozer work today he scared the hen off and took the eggs rather than leaving them to get crushed by the dozer. He brought them home and I candled. I have 12 eastern wild turkey eggs in the incubator that will hatch by at least Saturday. I can yelp and they will wiggle. I might try this imprinting thing finally

 

[K Epp]

My final count is 6 duck & 2 turkey. Non of the chicken hatched. I'm sure its because the turner stopped working. I have 4 more broodies now so I can put eggs under them.

 

[JennaLynn122]

4 pips and a ton of peeping going on tonight in the bator. The first one pipped at the wrong end completely but peeping very loudly so she must have gotten her nostrils free from any goop.

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

Ok so my dad found a Turkey nest doing some dozer work today he scared the hen off and took the eggs rather than leaving them to get crushed by the dozer. He brought them home and I candled. I have 12 eastern wild turkey eggs in the incubator that will hatch by at least Saturday. I can yelp and they will wiggle. I might try this imprinting thing finally

WOW! Sorry for the mum, but she wouldn't be able to move them and probably wouldn't set a nest moved by people, so it's great that they can be saved! Hope your imprinting experiment goes well (of course, that means you'll have poults following you to the bathroom, y'know...

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[GerbilsOnToast]

Promised pics; I even fancied 'em up and put them in a basket

Eleven in basket; four more in bator, still working, out of sixteen eggs that got to lockdown.

 

[Reyvaughn]

Poor baby's but at least you have plenty of chickens

Yeah, I am nearing 250 chickens/chicks at the moment.

I love that avatar! The snood is my most favorite thing on the poults. Other than them being so curious and fun! Do they all make the sing songy cheeping?

I love the turkeys and the poults. All of mine make that singing cheep noise. If the turkeys laid all year, I won't have chickens.

I was searching the for sale forums for poults and bantams. I was looking at all the beautiful birds and thinking how wonderful it would be to see them in my yard. Then I see pics of these beautiful blue eggs and I think- what's more important? The chicken or the egg? And I cracked myself up! I accidentally got philosophical.

Well, you can get Ameraucana / Easter Egger bantams for blue eggs. And midget white turkeys... Depends on how many eggs you want to use in comparison to medium/large LF eggs.

5 is enough to breed as long as you have atleast one of each gender. I rember starting with AUburns from POrters-- all the surviving poults were boys, all 13!!! lol

These are form my Bourbon Red quad, but all 5 were killed. I have 6 Bourbon poults I hatched previously (I thought I hatched 8...I guess not), 1 midget white and the first egg I hatched from my girls is a Bourbon x Narragansett cross. The poult looks like the poults on Porter's Golden Narragansett page.

 

[SilkieSensation]

I have chicks hatching under a broody too. I didn't think she was due to hatch until Friday so 2 days from now. So last min I decided to set her up a broody area and remove her from the rest of the flock before the chicks hatched. Well I set up her broody coop(rabbit hutch) and went and took her off her nest to get her eggs and low and behold they already started pipping. I was so mad at myself for taking the broody off the eggs. I should have known I could tell she was acting slightly different I knew it was getting closer. I hope I didn't shrink wrap any.

I have moved broodies mid hatch with pipped & zipping eggs & all did fine. Broody butts are VERY humid...lol

 

[SilkieSensation]

Hatch count:
1 turkey
2 anconas & 1 pipped & getting ready to zip
9 poliskies
2 ee banties & 1 assist still wiggling free
3 quail in the brooder & 1 still in the bator trying to uncurl that had zipped & not pushed the top off the shell. It was dry & fluffy inside the shell when I pulled the cap off & it pushed out.

 

[winteree]

Yep an Ancona.

awesome