Turkey Talk for 2014

[Sydney Acres]

I GOT MY FIRST TURKEY EGG TODAY!
It was froze... If they are fertile, they will be Narragansett crosses. I hope my boy is doing something to correct that!

Congrats!!! Now if the weather will just stop flash freezing everything.

 

[chicken pickin]

I GOT MY FIRST TURKEY EGG TODAY!
It was froze... If they are fertile, they will be Narragansett crosses. I hope my boy is doing something to correct that!

YAY!!!!!

First eggs are the best. Congrats!!!

 

[TeaChick]

I don't like the white stuff either...

They are Bourbon Reds.

I'm from Miami....it's weird stackable sand, right? lol
Oh, thank you; they're pretty.
Pretty much all I know about turkey breeds is that I'm getting chocolate turkey eggs to hatch, but I'm not sure when as my friend's hens haven't started laying quite yet.
They didn't look like chocolates, but I wasn't sure either.

I GOT MY FIRST TURKEY EGG TODAY!
It was froze... If they are fertile, they will be Narragansett crosses. I hope my boy is doing something to correct that!

First Egg Dance!!!

 

[BullChick]

To clear up the misunderstanding about my number of poults. I ordered four. One BBW for this year, and three BR for the future.
They "hatchery choice" will be arriving at the feed store as scheduled this month. They will be a mix of BBW and BBB. The Bourbon Reds are a "must order ahead" thing. They were all supposed to come together, so I am now thinking about what to put in with the BBW for company.
Please don't remind me that it is best to have chicks teach the poults. The Pennsylvania thread is filled with people that encourage chicken math. I have broody hens, and I have an incubator. I have even put eggs aside for incubating. I don't wanna do that. If I keep telling myself that, maybe I will start to believe it!

Seriously, I am selling half of my chicken flock to keep the feed bill down. My husband isn't helping. He keeps telling me to hatch more!

My turkey goal is to have a pair. My understanding is that toms don't get to attack the hens like roosters do. They have to get permission (so no over sexing) A trio will probably happen sooner rather than later.
Anyway, I plan on letting the "extra" one from this year's poults grow nice and big next year for Thanksgiving. The other BR will be the breeding pair, and each year whatever doesn't get sold will be sent to the freezer. My husband want s me to try fried turkey, so I guess a turkey fryer will be on the shopping list with the bigger roasting pan.
Reyvaughn, eggs from your BR is on my list of things for later. Once I know that my turkey venture is going to work out.

 

[TeaChick]

To clear up the misunderstanding about my number of poults. I ordered four. One BBW for this year, and three BR for the future.
They "hatchery choice" will be arriving at the feed store as scheduled this month. They will be a mix of BBW and BBB. The Bourbon Reds are a "must order ahead" thing. They were all supposed to come together, so I am now thinking about what to put in with the BBW for company.
Please don't remind me that it is best to have chicks teach the poults. The Pennsylvania thread is filled with people that encourage chicken math. I have broody hens, and I have an incubator. I have even put eggs aside for incubating. I don't wanna do that. If I keep telling myself that, maybe I will start to believe it!

Seriously, I am selling half of my chicken flock to keep the feed bill down. My husband isn't helping. He keeps telling me to hatch more!

My turkey goal is to have a pair. My understanding is that toms don't get to attack the hens like roosters do. They have to get permission (so no over sexing) A trio will probably happen sooner rather than later.
Anyway, I plan on letting the "extra" one from this year's poults grow nice and big next year for Thanksgiving. The other BR will be the breeding pair, and each year whatever doesn't get sold will be sent to the freezer. My husband want s me to try fried turkey, so I guess a turkey fryer will be on the shopping list with the bigger roasting pan.
Reyvaughn, eggs from your BR is on my list of things for later. Once I know that my turkey venture is going to work out.

Yours needs to talk to mine!!! I have to start out at six eggs and work my way up to the 12-15 that I want to hatch and have a rational (sounding) explanation for why I "need" to hatch that many. It helps if the explanation is complicated enough that he has a hard time really understanding it (including breed names and egg production and percentages of anything all help).

 

[TeaChick]

Question:
I've been hatching chicken eggs in a cooler-bator and setting them in an egg carton with holes for air circulation. I've been setting them in a carton to keep the air sac on top.
What (if anything) would you all recommend I do differently for turkey eggs?

 

[BullChick]

Question:
I've been hatching chicken eggs in a cooler-bator and setting them in an egg carton with holes for air circulation. I've been setting them in a carton to keep the air sac on top.
What (if anything) would you all recommend I do differently for turkey eggs?

Tea, my understanding is that nothing is different but adding a week. Silky Sensation advised adding 10% humidity at lock down for poults.
Tell DH that to offset the cost of feeding the turkeys, you must hatch a lot of eggs to always have a supply of poults for selling.

 

[chicken pickin]

Question:
I've been hatching chicken eggs in a cooler-bator and setting them in an egg carton with holes for air circulation. I've been setting them in a carton to keep the air sac on top.
What (if anything) would you all recommend I do differently for turkey eggs?

I hatch turkey eggs and chicken eggs exactly the same, I don't make any changes and my hatches turn out fine.

 

[SilkieSensation]

 
To clear up the misunderstanding about my number of poults. I ordered four. One BBW for this year, and three BR for the future.
They "hatchery choice" will be arriving at the feed store as scheduled this month. They will be a mix of BBW and BBB. The Bourbon Reds are a "must order ahead" thing. They were all supposed to come together, so I am now thinking about what to put in with the BBW for company.
Please don't remind me that it is best to have chicks teach the poults. The Pennsylvania thread is filled with people that encourage chicken math. I have broody hens, and I have an incubator. I have even put eggs aside for incubating. I don't wanna do that. If I keep telling myself that, maybe I will start to believe it! Seriously, I am selling half of my chicken flock to keep the feed bill down. My husband isn't helping. He keeps telling me to hatch more!

My turkey goal is to have a pair. My understanding is that toms don't get to attack the hens like roosters do. They have to get permission (so no over sexing) A trio will probably happen sooner rather than later.
Anyway, I plan on letting the "extra" one from this year's poults grow nice and big next year for Thanksgiving. The other BR will be the breeding pair, and each year whatever doesn't get sold will be sent to the freezer. My husband want s me to try fried turkey, so I guess a turkey fryer will be on the shopping list with the bigger roasting pan.
Reyvaughn, eggs from your BR is on my list of things for later. Once I know that my turkey venture is going to work out.

Yours needs to talk to mine!!!  I have to start out at six eggs and work my way up to the 12-15 that I want to hatch and have a rational (sounding) explanation for why I "need" to hatch that many.  It helps if the explanation is complicated enough that he has a hard time really understanding it (including breed names and egg production and percentages of anything all help).

 

[SilkieSensation]

TC & MC:
Perfect solution-Rainbow Layers. You MUST HATCH at least 4 of every hen's egg just to make sure you get every color possibility.