Turkey is sitting on eggs,Have Baby Chick,turkey and phesant ?

[R2elk]

Ok this is all new to me, I here people all the time say when something goes broody they keep stuffing eggs under them.

Yes but the object of doing that is to make sure that all of the eggs are due to hatch at the same time. Turkeys and guineas are 28 days so all of those need to be under the hen at the time she starts sitting. If you want to add chicken eggs (21 days) add them 7 days after the hen starts sitting.

While it is not advisable to keep adding eggs every day to an incubator, a person can get away with doing that. The incubator isn't going to turn itself off because it thinks it has enough eggs hatched. The incubator isn't going to stop because it doesn't like the looks of a chick that hatched.

I have had turkeys decide that they had enough eggs hatched or were tired of their nests being disturbed quit sittiing and walk off with their hatched chicks leaving behind eggs that were days away from hatching.

Last year I had a hen hatch 8 of 11 eggs. She took her eight little darlings and hid them in the grass while she picked a fight with my dog (they were separated by a fence). While they were fighting I caught the poults and put them in the brooder. After a couple hours I finally broke up the turkey/dog fight. The hen wandered around for the next four hours looking for her chicks. She finally returned to the three eggs remaining in her nest after being off the nest for at least 6 hours. Two days later she came off of her nest again with 2 more chicks for a total of 10 out of 11 eggs hatched. Had I allowed her to keep the original 8 chicks she would not have returned to her nest to hatch out the last two poults.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Ok this is all new to me, I here people all thetime say when something goes broody they keep stuffing eggs under them.

Yes, nothing is wrong with putting different eggs under your broody hens. I have done it for years with much success. Any hen that goes broody could possibly hatch a chicken, duck, turkey, goose or peafowl. It doesn't matter to me. The key is to make sure that (depending on what type of bird it is) that the new hatches are removed from the hen if it's possible for the hen to step on them and hurt or kill them or put them in harm's way. Just something to think about.

I have always had turkeys to hatch chickens and I have left the chickens with them. But I don't advise other people to do it. My girls may just be a little more careful where they step because they never kill any of the baby chicks.

But if you have any eggs that will hatch early, you will need to get those chicks out of there in a hurry because the hen may not set any more if she sees new babies. She may think setting time is over.

Yesterday, I had a turkey hen that hatched a poult and I took the poult until the other eggs hatch. This is will be a staggered hatch because I was putting eggs under her every day. I didn't want her to think that was the only baby and leave the nest. When all of them hatch, I will place all of the babies back with her. She is on goose eggs, so I will have to remove the goose egg and let another hen complete the incubation process because I have 2 more weeks to go for the goose eggs. It's musical chairs (eggs) at my place. All of my bird incubators are used.

You're a busy bee over there.

 

[Joe.G]

Maybe I'll pull the Chicken Eggs and place new ones under her, this should make them hatch all around the same time. She has been sitting for a week now.

 

[Joe.G]

How many hours a day does she have to sit on them? She sits a lot but I also she her walking around a bit.