What is your typical hatch rate for turkey eggs?

[vtgirls]

I hatched 11 out of 18 given from a friend - suspect they were not very fresh, but fairly so. She also lent her incubator - was a styrofaom job that was loud and seemed inefficient. We have just pruchased the octagon 20 with turner after reading many reviews - will have to get back to you one this one's success!

 

[ColbyNTX]

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You can not take eggs from a wild turkey nest. You should not post something like that if you did. The hen was probabaly not done laying her clutch. It is aginst the law to take turkeys or eggs form the wild without the proper permits. As for hatching turkeys, it is about the same as a goose.

 

[star2525]

I had no idea there was any kind of issue, I'll call here locally to find out what they advise. I live in the woods and when Dogs attacked a Turkey Tom I rescued the Tom and nursed him back to health, I let him out everyday and at night he stayed right next to the woodsline and laid down beside a tree for the night, I released him and when I would go out in the yard he would come to the area of the yard I was in, I'd see him in the woods and he'd raise his head to see where I was, he stayed close by for about a month and started moving further from the tree to back to his own group of turkeys, someone told me he wouldn't go back to the flock he was with wounded as they would kill him, he stayed with me for about a month, until he was healed, I still to this day come home and every now and then a Wild Turkey Tom stands in the driveway watching me get my mail then goes back into the woods, pretty sure its the Tom I rescued. Never saw a Turkey up close until then, he didn't like me cleaning his back, his face get all white, I saw the total array of colors in his face and that finger looking thing above his beak moving it. I would sit down and he would come and get food and water from me. I have chickens and when he came into the yard close to my chickens that was caged, my birds sat down in the cages. I saw the spurs on his legs, when I was cleaning his back and his face got all white I could tell he didn't like it but he didn't come after me for cleaning his back and I seriously at that point wondered what it would be like if he went off on me, but he didn't. And he would actually eat out of my hand. Was just glad I was able to save him and that he made his way back to his own kind. It was interesting watching some of my Araucana Roosters reaction to him.

 

[mitchell3006]

A.T. Hagan :

For fresh eggs from your own birds what is your typical hatch rate for turkey eggs?

With my fresh eggs from my chickens I get over 90% hatch consistently.

But with my turkeys I get between 85-90% with fresh eggs from my own birds. Occasionally over 90% but usually between 85-90%. I'm not unhappy with that, but it seems like I ought to get at least a good a hatch from turkeys as I do with chickens. But I may also be expecting too much.

So with fresh eggs from your own birds what is your typical hatch rate with turkey eggs?

For the season so far I am at about 75% on turkeys (BR). It turned off way too hot too quick this year. I have gotten lazy on my candling so this is percentage from set to hatch with no removing clears in the process. I have hatched more BR's than I need though. When I can sex my older poults I am going to pull a dozen or so hens for expanding the flock and start selling the rest to cut feed bills.

Mark​

 

[Cold Canadian]

Well you guys and gals seem to have real good luck when it comes to turkey eggs ! I have tried over 36 eggs and I ended up with 4 alive out of 5 that hatched ? They were shipped eggs and a few showed signs of development , but never made it to the hatching stage ! I'm not giving up though , just need to find some eggs locally , and try to understand there way of incubation better .

 

[andycrosby]

Turkey hatching rate is gentetic, and can be passed on by the perent stock you can read more at http://www.thai-farm.com/turkeys/ hope this helps you