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

[winteree]

Oh I have gotten my fair share of imposter birds.. especially "Jubilee Orpingtons".. have spent way too much on those (way more than I like to admit).. and every thing that hatched out was either a mutt or some other breed.. and none were the Jubilees that I paid for!

yeah i saw some lavender orpingtons that i wanted so bad i could taste it but it's like a first generation cross it even says in the on-line page that the color doesn't breed true and the chicks can have splash color's. Definition they are asking 20 bucks a chick for mutts

 

[Corny Caleb]

I'm incubating my turkey eggs at 99.5-100 degrees at around 55 percent humidity, is that good?

 

[lsmith]

Well my other internal pip never pipped externally. I couldn't hear any more cheeping and no other external pips. I pulled my 1 fluffy butt out and put her in the brooder and I candled the rest of the eggs. Since we are on day 22, I'm not sure what else to do. All of the eggs look fine on their air cells but nothing is moving and I have no pips. I opened the air cell up for the one that had pipped internally and I think it's died in the shell. I left it in the incubator with the other eggs but I don't have any hope for them. I have water in cups in 3 places in the incubator, I've been misting the inside and my temp is at 99F. I feel bad for the other chicks and now I'm worried about the duck in there. And my turkey eggs! Oh man.

 

[JennaLynn122]

The first 2 pictures are of a "regular" GLW chicks wings. (laying flat and straight down her back)






These 3 last pictures are "Hawk's" (another GLW chick) wings. (curled at the ends and lay curled in toward her body)

Question is: Why are "Hawk's" wings so curved down like that? She is also A LOT fuller than all the others, probably because of the curved feathers?


PS- Please ignore the messy room, my DH thinks its a good idea to leave his work clothes at the end of the bed instead of the hamper.

 

[ronott1]

I'm incubating my turkey eggs at 99.5-100 degrees at around 55 percent humidity, is that good?

It is the same as chicken eggs--watch the air cell development. I would start with something lower for humidity and adjust by either the turkey air cell chart or the weight loss chart.

Maybe 40%?

 

[GerbilsOnToast]

Candled myself silly...
Have 19 squirming chicks due on Monday; pulled the last two questionables 'cos there was no longer any question.
One bouncing baby turkey due on the 15th,
Have not yet braved Penelope's wrath to candle the ones under her; she now has 11 turkeys also due 15th.

and found spiders in 57 of 109 set on the 28th... yeah, I got impatient, and my back is paying me for it, LOL.
I think it's nap time!

 

[Avlana]

My turkey eggs are due to hatch on the 5th and I already hear peeping and have an external pip. Wonder if that incubator is running hotter than it should?

In another incubator, all my coturnix quail hatched on time yesterday I did a complete dry hatch from start to finish with them, just to see. And plus I forgot to add water anyways. Every single one hatched just fine. I still have the turkeys (which I bumped humidity up for them), pheasants that are due in a few days and mystery duck eggs.

 

[sonderah]

Oh I have gotten my fair share of imposter birds.. especially "Jubilee Orpingtons".. have spent way too much on those (way more than I like to admit).. and every thing that hatched out was either a mutt or some other breed.. and none were the Jubilees that I paid for!

See, I'm afraid to sell hatching eggs for that very reason! I have 1 chicken in my BO pen who is a red sex link. She is just our "favorite" and we can't get rid of her, but have nowhere else to put her. I'm afraid she'd hurt my bantys. So anyway, it hard to tell her eggs from my BO's. I USUALLY get it right, but occasionally end up hatching out a mutt. I'd feel AWFUL if I sent someone the wrong kind if chickens egg!!!

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

So I dropped another egg... I'm not sure I should touch them ever again... But this one went on one heck of a trip and now the air cell is trashed... How much of a chance does it have?

 

[winteree]

So I dropped another egg... I'm not sure I should touch them ever again... But this one went on one heck of a trip and now the air cell is trashed... How much of a chance does it have?

The air cell while it looks werid should be ok as long as the membrane is still intact