Turkey eggs going in tomorrow (May 6)....any tips?

[pawtraitart]

I've never hatched turkey eggs before. I know that they take around 28 days to hatch. Anything I should know about incubating turkey eggs? They are midget whites.

 

[One Acre Wonder Farm]

Have you hatched chickens or ducks before?

 

[pawtraitart]

I've hatched chickens.

 

[One Acre Wonder Farm]

Ok, good, so it is just like chickens except one more week (which feels like one more month

) and they are so much more slow-pokey to develop at the beginning! I just candled a batch at 11 days and finally saw movement. Other than those two things, I think chickens and turkeys are very similar!

 

[pawtraitart]

Excellent! Okay, so here we go! Oh my goodness, another week of waiting is gonna be a tough one. LOL

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

We use the same settings for chickens and turkeys in a GQF Sportsman. The temp is 99.8 to 100, humidity 50% ish during incubation and on day 25 when you stop turning raise to about 65%. Our temp setting is just a touch high so they pip and hatch about a day early.

Steve