Too Early for Feb Hatch-A-Long Thread??

[UThobbyfarmer]

It's out! First chick to hatch. Looks black/yellow in the picture but in person it looks blue/yellow.

 

[LilyD]

It's out! First chick to hatch. Looks black/yellow in the picture but in person it looks blue/yellow.
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Yay good for you Tom Petty way to beat the odds! Now here's hoping he's a Thomasina instead of a Tom lol.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

It's out! First chick to hatch. Looks black/yellow in the picture but in person it looks blue/yellow.
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Welcome to "The Great Wide Open" Tom Petty!!

 

[aliciaplus3]

Are your turkey hens laying yet? I can't remember when my girl started last year. There's been a lot of action between her and the tom. Problem is I have two egg loving pigs currently running around with them. So I'm not sure if they're going to find the eggs before me.

I started the lights end of oct so we had eggs the first of december. My DD breeds these for her 4-h project and our county fair is in july so in order to be competitive in the meat class they need to be 6 to 7 months old.
most folks are not getting turkey eggs just yet or are just starting. here I have my 3rd turkey that has gone broody, the first 2 have completed their hatches( ok one did a BAD job and we had to rescue the only survivor Nemo) the 3rd just started setting 2 days ago??
I LOVE incubating any type of fowl. I have even been talked into hatching quail for a friend before!
Just returned from the FFA classroom and they managed to hatch 6 chicks out of 48 that I took in and so far 3 turkeys and 5 ducks are out running around today, there was 3or 4 more duck eggs with external pips when I left a short while ago. they started with 7 turkey and 13 duck eggs and 17 that made it to lockdown I would say they had better luck with the turkey and duck eggs!

 

[juliasflock]

Some of my favorites!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Some of my favorites!

Love the babies and I love the photo set! I'm going to have to make the little photo chick studio cute this year!!

 

[FortCluck]

Love the babies and I love the photo set! I'm going to have to make the little photo chick studio cute this year!!

When I was doing a chick photo shoot things went insane now I just hold them.

My husband is a professional photographer (2nd job/hobby) so maybe I can get him to do some pics for me in the future

 

[CluckNDoodle]

When I was doing a chick photo shoot things went insane now I just hold them.

My husband is a professional photographer (2nd job/hobby) so maybe I can get him to do some pics for me in the future

I mostly just do a white background for the chick pics and I would occasionally put fun tissue paper (because it's cheap and can be tossed when pooped on, lol) but not much more than that.

 

[Mylied]

We have an external pip! I'm hoping really hard that we have a duckling in the morning. I have been stressing non stop.

@juliasflock Those are some gorgeous babies and photos!

@aliciaplus3 Thanks for the info. I just have the one pair of turkeys so I let them do what they want. She's never successfully hatched out poults for me, although she tries. This year I wanted to incubate the eggs and see if it's a fertility problem or something else. I usually just end up giving her day old poults after her brooding fails. She's a great mother. My tom is a great father too. He even went broody last year and gave a go of it.

 

[juliasflock]

I mostly just do a white background for the chick pics and I would occasionally put fun tissue paper (because it's cheap and can be tossed when pooped on, lol) but not much more than that.

I use scrapbook paper! Cheap way to change up backgrounds! And it’s no loss if one poops on it!