Turkeys For 2013

[r4eboxer]

Found these two convicts setting on eggs at the neighbor's house. Looks like they are on about 30 turkey eggs.

escaped did they lol, That's a lot of eggs hope they all hatch out.

 

[r4eboxer]

Where does everyone keep humidity for lock down? Do you follow Porters advice or do you let it drop to 65 or 70?

 

[Sally8]

Honestly, I dry hatch and my humidity rarely reaches 50. Because it' been so dry this year, my humidity has hovered around 16. So I put a small piece of sponge in a little water to raise it between 30 and 40.

 

[r4eboxer]

Honestly, I dry hatch and my humidity rarely reaches 50. Because it' been so dry this year, my humidity has hovered around 16. So I put a small piece of sponge in a little water to raise it between 30 and 40.

At lock down you have it between 30 and 40? I dry incubate, do you get good hatches at 30%?

 

[kuntrygirl]

I have success at 40.

 

[r4eboxer]

I have success at 40.

Ok then I will not worry about my 65 thanks all

 

[Sally8]

At lock down you have it between 30 and 40? I dry incubate, do you get good hatches at 30%?

With the turkeys, it's great. With chickens, I have had troubles before, but usually it's ok.

 

[Celie]

Universal Egg Turners

Has any one here ever bought a Universal egg Turner and found out it was not as Universal as they thought it would be

I bought a new Incubator and it has all the bells and whistles as well as a Universal Egg Turner and it does have good size cups for the eggs to set in.
Celie Sent me some Belgian White Turkey Eggs that looks like Godzilla layed them capered to my first year lay Bourbon Reds eggs.
I got them to fit by arranging them along side of the smaller eggs.
I don't know if I were to buy some goose egg trays if they would work with this style of egg turner or not.

And I am not going back to hand turning again talk about a pain.
Anyone have any suggestions.

Holland Whites, Frank, They are Holland Whites, the largest of the Heritage breeds! LOL

Thank you. She is still trying to set the wreckage so I don't know if I should ... do something? This is our first year with turkeys. If she is broody like a chicken don't have I have to break her of that first... or will the lack of eggs be enough?? Thank you all for answering the newbie questions.

I had a turkey hen go broody a couple months ago and tried to set some chicken eggs, which she was too heavy to set and they broke. It became a stinky mess, so I moved her and cleaned up the mess. She was back to laying pretty quick.

4 bourbon red poults that were hatched today. The turkey eggs were under a muscovy duck and black copper maran chicken.

Duck and chicken are Mamma, LOL, I love it! Julie, only you would think like that!

I'm feeling so bad over the 2 poults I lost. I don't think I had to, thinking I should have done a couple of things differently. I'll know better next time. Here's a few pic's of the ones that I do have. I had just moved them in a bigger pen. One of the few times they huddled right down and were quiet. They are from a Bronze/Royal Palm tom and a Royal Palm hen.









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Cute Poults! Don't beat yourself up, Turkeys will lay smaller eggs to start with, just like chicken pullet eggs. You can hatch them, but they are smaller and not as strong as poults hatched from bigger eggs. They need to go into ICU, for a while, so to speak !

Found these two convicts setting on eggs at the neighbor's house. Looks like they are on about 30 turkey eggs.

If this is your neighbor's yard, I hope they like you, or they might be raising a lot of turkey poults soon! LOL

Those sneaky birds!!!

Ok then I will not worry about my 65 thanks all

Humidity during hatching also depends on altitude and the way your incubator reads the humidity. Consult your manufacturer's instructions. My incubator usually climes to 60 or 65, on it's own, from the humidity the eggs generate, so I don't have to do anything. I am near sea level.

 

[kuntrygirl]

These 2 hatched the poults. And I went back to check to make sure that there weren't any more babies and lo and behold I missed one. So there was a total of 5 poults.

Introducing the parents. Lol.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

These 2 hatched the poults. And I went back to check to make sure that there weren't any more babies and lo and behold I missed one. So there was a total of 5 poults.

Introducing the parents. Lol.

I can sure believe the scovy!! What broody things they are!