Turkey Talk for 2014

[TattooedMama]

Thanks...and back at you! I got back from picking my daughter up from work a few minutes ago and found this... And as I was posting the above I heard VERY loud pepping, so had to run and go check, and found this... My very first Turkey!!!!! e

How exciting, congratulations!! We want to see lots of pictures

 

[TiaRC]

Anyone experience a mute turkey poult?

 

[OzarkCountryGirl]

How exciting, congratulations!! We want to see lots of pictures

Be careful what you wish for...

I had to take them out of the incubator, as one had the cord wrapped around it's leg and it was creating close to a dime sized hernia (no thanks to it's already hatched sibling for spinning it's egg all over the place while this one was trying to hatch), that would pop out even more with each distressing cheep. After I snipped the cord lose, I gently pushed the hernia in and put a band aid over it to hold it in place and the poult doesn't seem to be in distress anymore. It's the one in the bottom of the picture, dozing off. Hopefully it will be even better by morning....

 

[TattooedMama]

Be careful what you wish for... I had to take them out of the incubator, as one had the cord wrapped around it's leg and it was creating close to a dime sized hernia (no thanks to it's already hatched sibling for spinning it's egg all over the place while this one was trying to hatch), that would pop out even more with each distressing cheep. After I snipped the cord lose, I gently pushed the hernia in and put a band aid over it to hold it in place and the poult doesn't seem to be in distress anymore. It's the one in the bottom of the picture, dozing off. Hopefully it will be even better by morning....

. I hope mine do well and hatch out well. I hope your poult is doing good by tomorrow!!

 

[TattooedMama]

What do you guys prefer for humidity for incubating turkeys? I know there are always numerous opinions on this but I would like to get a range you all have success with. I live in a dry/desert type area in Southern California. We are inland and it is roughly 90 degrees here daily. We run the air in the house which I heard also dries out the air. I just set my eggs yesterday and humidity is currently at 40%. These are my first turkey eggs and I have only recently done one chicken hatch. The chickens I kept in the 30% range until hatching and increased to 50% and I had 100% of my fertile eggs hatch. I have a Brinsea Octogon 20 Advanced which keeps temp perfect but seems to struggle with keeping the humidity high. Any and all advice about how you prefer to incubate is greatly appreciated!! I find there's less info on hatching turkeys available. Thanks!!

 

[sonderah]

Hmmm. I have 2 turkey poults right now who are almost 2 weeks old. They've been doing AWESOME! This morning I get up and 1 is all weak, and cannot even stand up on its own! I've given sugar water, since I do not have any electrolytes, and Poly Vi Sol without Iron. Idk what happened. Never had 1 get sickly acting any later than a few days after hatch.

 

[OzarkCountryGirl]

. I hope mine do well and hatch out well. I hope your poult is doing good by tomorrow!!

I hope yours do, too. And this morning the big hernia was smaller than a pea, and the poult is running around, eating and drinking.

And I woke up to another one hatched. So all of the turkey eggs in the homemade cooler incubator have hatched.



The strange thing is, there are eggs in the hova-bator that pipped the same time those in the cooler did (more than 24 hours ago) and I'm still waiting for those to start zipping...

 

[OzarkCountryGirl]

Hmmm. I have 2 turkey poults right now who are almost 2 weeks old. They've been doing AWESOME! This morning I get up and 1 is all weak, and cannot even stand up on its own! I've given sugar water, since I do not have any electrolytes, and Poly Vi Sol without Iron. Idk what happened. Never had 1 get sickly acting any later than a few days after hatch.

Oh, no! I do hope it makes it!

The past few days I've been reading through some of the posts about new poults and now I'm starting to wonder what I've gotten myself in to. Are they really that delicate and hard to raise?
I've already fallen in love with these, and I don't want to lose even one. And it would be even worse to lose any once they start developing their own personalities...

 

[OzarkCountryGirl]

Ok....one poult in the hova-bator has finally hatched. But there is a big lump at the back of it's neck. I noticed through the incubator window that while it was hatching, it was having some difficulty getting completely out of the egg (not like the others) and kept hitting it's little head against the floor of the incubator and against the other eggs, spinning the other eggs around like tops, so I hope it hasn't hurt them in the process. Anyway, is this normal? Or is it swelling caused by the repeated beating of itself against the floor and the other eggs?
In the picture below it's resting, but right now it's moving around and peeping.



The other eggs still haven't progressed more than just the initial tiny pips since yesterday morning.

 

[sonderah]

Oh, no!  I do hope it makes it! 

The past few days I've been reading through some of the posts about new poults and now I'm starting to wonder what I've gotten myself in to.  Are they really that delicate and hard to raise?
I've already fallen in love with these, and I don't want to lose even one.  And it would be even worse to lose any once they start developing their own personalities...

Poor thing didn't make it! I just found out my daughter found a dead chicken chick yesterday too! :/

Can turkeys & chickens both get Cocci??