Turkeys For 2013

[kuntrygirl]

I've been meaning to get me one of these!!! WOW 6 pm?? gets dark here at 5 pm. WHen april 1st comes around, I get enthusiastic that spring is soon to arrive.

By April we have the summer gardens well underway, Spring arrives for us in March in the South!

You'll want to weigh adult turkeys now too!

I think I paid about $15.?? including shipping. It is very similar, and weighs in pounds and ounces or grams and I weigh my packages, turkeys and rabbits on it. It came with batteries and a AC adapter plug. I take mine into the yard, and use it on the table top, when I am processing and it is very accurate.

I think mine was $17.00 including shipping. I forgot about the shipping. Mine also has the batteries and plug in. I love it !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[kuntrygirl]

Heck, I could weigh my kids on it! How big are they? I wonder because I sometimes have problems weighing small birds who won't stay on the platform. With that, I could tare out the box though.

Yes, you can weigh your small birds.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Ok you turkey connoisseurs, let's talk candling. How many of you candle your eggs? When do you candle your eggs? HOW do you candle? What kind of flashlight do you all use to candle? How OFTEN do you candle your eggs once they are put in the incubator?

I have to admit that I DO NOT know how to candle. I have tried it but I can't see anything. Looks like a big glob of something in there. I don't ever see any veins or all of that other stuff people say that they see. So because of that, I don't ever candle. I just leave the eggs in and if they hatch, then they hatch. If not, then oh well. I have been SO lucky to NEVER have had any eggs to explode. WHEW!

 

[chicken pickin]

Ok you turkey connoisseurs, let's talk candling. How many of you candle your eggs? When do you candle your eggs? HOW do you candle? What kind of flashlight do you all use to candle? How OFTEN do you candle your eggs once they are put in the incubator?

I have to admit that I DO NOT know how to candle. I have tried it but I can't see anything. Looks like a big glob of something in there. I don't ever see any veins or all of that other stuff people say that they see.

So because of that, I don't ever candle. I just leave the eggs in and if they hatch, then they hatch. If not, then oh well. I have been SO lucky to NEVER have had any eggs to explode. WHEW!

This will be good to read about. Im looking forward to incubating my turkey eggs once I start getting them. Ive been practicing incubating with my new incubator on chicken eggs. I have a batch on day 20 and they are rock'n and roll'n as we speak. I candle the chicken eggs A LOT lol. But im glad you brought this up because I have no clue about turkey eggs

 

[Celie]

Kuntrygirl, I remember it selling for $7.something and the shipping being $7.something and the total being $15.something, which I felt was a steal, so I told everyone on the Biog about it, or it may have been on the LA blog, I don't remember, but you were the only one who came back and told me you bought one, smart girl!
Eggs have blown up on me and

what a mess. I think this might happen if they have a small crack in it that you can't see, but some don't, so don't really know why it happens? I can candle chicken and duck eggs fine with a very small flashlight with bright LED's, AND STRONG GLASSES! But my turkey eggs have too thick of a shell to see through and I am too cheap to buy an expensive one from GQF!!! I don't candle much, unless I run out of room in the incubator!!

Thanks for bringing this subject up, I would like to learn more.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Kuntrygirl, I remember it selling for $7.something and the shipping being $7.something and the total being $15.something, which I felt was a steal, so I told everyone on the Biog about it, or it may have been on the LA blog, I don't remember, but you were the only one who came back and told me you bought one, smart girl!
Eggs have blown up on me and what a mess. I think this might happen if they have a small crack in it that you can't see, but some don't, so don't really know why it happens? I can candle chicken and duck eggs fine with a very small flashlight with bright LED's, AND STRONG GLASSES! But my turkey eggs have too thick of a shell to see through and I am too cheap to buy an expensive one from GQF!!! I don't candle much, unless I run out of room in the incubator!! Thanks for bringing this subject up, I would like to learn more.

On the scale, I think I had to bid on mine and I won the bid at $9.01. But like you said, it was a steal. I couldn't pass that up at all.


Celie, when you candle, are you ina dark room, like pitch black dark room at night? Where do you place the flashlight? Do you put the flashlight under the egg and look at the egg from the top?

 

[kuntrygirl]

I found this video on You Tube about egg candling turkey eggs (Royal Palm turkey egg).

 

[Bettacreek]

I just use a mini mag light with an led light in it. Mine are aren't any harder to candle that the chicken eggs.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I just use a mini mag light with an led light in it. Mine are aren't any harder to candle that the chicken eggs.

At what day do you candle? I have read 7 - 10 days. How do you hold your egg to candle?

I have this type of flashlight, so I know that it has power that I need. So I guess I just don't know what I'm looking at.

MAGLITE RE1019 Heavy-Duty Rechargeable Flashlight

 

[Bettacreek]

I candle as early as day three. Not all will have development by then though, and it'll only be a tiny spot with a vein or two. I hold it pointy end down, using my pinky, ring, middle finger and palm to hold the egg, then index and thumb on the top of the egg and around the flashlight.