who else has eggs cooking???

[Rose98]

I have 8 on day two under a broody....
First hatch ever using a hen, just hope she sits till the hatch as she was sitting a few weeks before we put eggs under her. I do have an incubator ready just in case.

 

[CrzyChknLady81]

First pip from Turkey eggs is a wrong end pip     The other three that have piped internally have not piped the shell...   At this point because of mr or miss wrong way I wont open the bator to check on the others....   Oh the stress of self incubation  

I swear I gain 300 grey hairs for every egg I set..How'd they turn out? I had pretty good results. .one had to be culled, and one is still iffy with a lil red umbilical area that's swollen but it's gone down a decent bit over night. Everyone else is bouncing around the brooder and 3 are waiting on me to take them out of the hatcher..
8 total healthy chicks

 

[CrzyChknLady81]

I have 8 on day two under a broody....

First hatch ever using a hen, just hope she sits till the hatch as she was sitting a few weeks before we put eggs under her. I do have an incubator ready just in case.

That's what I'm looking forward to..having broodies again.. good thinking having the bator ready just in case.. hope she keeps sitting for you ♡

 

[AmericanMom]

I swear I gain 300 grey hairs for every egg I set..How'd they turn out? I had pretty good results. .one had to be culled, and one is still iffy with a lil red umbilical area that's swollen but it's gone down a decent bit over night. Everyone else is bouncing around the brooder and 3 are waiting on me to take them out of the hatcher..
8 total healthy chicks

Wrong way didn't make it, but right after I realized it had expired the first internal pip turned into a shell pip, shortly followed by two more... Woke up this morning to the first one out and dry and 8 total pips left.. One egg that hasn't piped but not too worried as today is day 27

 

[CrzyChknLady81]

Wrong way didn't make it, but right after I realized it had expired the first internal pip turned into a shell pip, shortly followed by two more... Woke up this morning to the first one out and dry and 8 total pips left.. One egg that hasn't piped but not too worried as today is day 27

YAY!!!
There's nothing quite like hatching is there? Somehow it's the most stressful but also the most rewarding (not to mention addictive..lol).. my lil one thst was iffy didn't make it..I went to put the other 2 in the brooder and somehow in less than 2 minutes the iffy chick went from looking like it was making progress and the bubble was shrinking/drying up to my hatcher bottom being covered in blood..so my lovely bf put him down..after the cull yesterday I just couldn't do another.

 

[CrzyChknLady81]

How hard are turkeys to hatch? I've been thinking about finding a breeder and incubating a couple with the chicks bc supposedly brooding with turkeys does something for a chicks resistance to cocci? I think I got that right..

 

[AmericanMom]

How hard are turkeys to hatch? I've been thinking about finding a breeder and incubating a couple with the chicks bc supposedly brooding with turkeys does something for a chicks resistance to cocci? I think I got that right..

Sorry to hear about the little one, its so hard when we have to do the deed!!

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My Grandson, 4 years old, was here when I took the expired one out, it was still in the shell but he wanted to see it so he and I did an eggtopsy.. He is determined to be a "farmer" when he grows up and was not bothered by the dead chick but was instead interested in how, why it died.. We talked about it, I showed him what I thought might be the problem, not only was it upside down in the egg but one lag was over its back, I showed him how it would not have made it anyways... As a reward we went in and candled the remaining eggs and while we candled the first internal pip did an external pip.. He is always excited to be around during hatching

Turkeys are the same for me as chickens to hatch.. same temp and humidity just 7 days longer.. Although I usually get about an 85% hatch rate now on my turkey eggs I have discovered its only if I hand turn, if I put them in a turner my hatch rate is below 50% I have no reasoning why as others do fine, mine do not.. So I have spent the last two months solid incubating and hand turning my hatches..

This hatch going on right now might well be the best yet, if the 8/9 remaining hatch I can safely call it 90%
As for the dreaded Cocci... I learned a trick after losing 4 poults and nearly one adult hen to the disease, its something a Herbalist taught me and something the big turkey farms do.. (I always hatched my poults with chickens and it did not make them resistant. )

Take 1/2 cup oil (vegetable, canola or olive oil) To that ad 12 drops pure organic Oregano oil, pour that mixture over 8 cups of feed ( I have a large flock of chickens with the 3 turkeys) mix well and pour into feeder.. Since starting them on this once a week I have had absolutely no more issues and my flock is able to ward off the Cocci.

and on edit..

Always give free choice of AVC in one of the water containers, fresh every day

 

[CrzyChknLady81]

That's awesome about your grandson My son is 5 and he's the same way, and he checks the incubators as often as I do if not more..lol..
Thankfully I've never had a case of cocci, I don't know if it's good luck or good management but I do use the ACV for all the birds every day. I also use B.O.B. probiotics and always do whatever needs done with the littles before messing with the adults and then change clothes and wash up real good before messing with the babies and the kids know they aren't allowed to touch the babies or the babies cage without washing up good..
I also start bringing in clumps of dirt and grass from the yard for the chicks when they are about 3 weeks old..the big chickens free range so I'm sure there is some cross over there but I like to introduce them to "local bacteria" or whatever else is in the dirt and its a substitute for the grit too

 

[AmericanMom]

That's awesome about your grandson

My son is 5 and he's the same way, and he checks the incubators as often as I do if not more..lol..
Thankfully I've never had a case of cocci, I don't know if it's good luck or good management but I do use the ACV for all the birds every day. I also use B.O.B. probiotics and always do whatever needs done with the littles before messing with the adults and then change clothes and wash up real good before messing with the babies and the kids know they aren't allowed to touch the babies or the babies cage without washing up good..
I also start bringing in clumps of dirt and grass from the yard for the chicks when they are about 3 weeks old..the big chickens free range so I'm sure there is some cross over there but I like to introduce them to "local bacteria" or whatever else is in the dirt and its a substitute for the grit too

Sounds like a good plan, one I hadn't thought of.. My chicks go from the incubator to an in house brooder for 3 days then out to the porch brooder for 2 weeks.. Then the grow out pen which is in the same area the chickens free range then from there to the finishing pen which is next to the main coop... I hadn't thought of doing it any other way but like the way you describe the bio security..

I have 3 Grandsons, the youngest being only one but of the other 2 Elijah (the four year old) is the most into our little farm here, He once told me that when he grows up and has his farm Me and his Poppy have to live with him so I can take care of his chickens... I told my Husband, our future is secure

On another note.. been out working the property all day in anticipation of a large BBQ were hosting tomorrow for our Daughters 24th Birthday.. When I came in a bit ago I discovered that in my absence we have had a Turkey explosion... 7 out, one zipping two more piped... If they all hatch this will be my best hatch rate to date...95%

 

[AmericanMom]

8 are out, the 9th one is zipping and #10 is piped (this afternoon)