My husband found our Guinea's nest and the last time she set none hatched so this time we took the eggs and they are in the incubator and are due to start hatching July 27. On day 7 I plan to add bantam eggs to finish filling the incubator. I have 9 guinea eggs so will be room for 12 bantam eggs.
They should be alright my humidity dropped overnight a few times when hatching geese and ducks and had 3 out of 4 duck eggs and all 6 goose eggs hatch.
Remove paper towels and use pine shavings 3rd day. The paper towels or old sheet is to sprinkle feed on so they can find the food and learn to eat food and not the shavings. Also sprinkle grit over their food. Good luck.
Do turkeys scratch like chickens do?
I ordered 20 and have lost 5 already. I only raised turkeys once and that was with guineas so not exactly sure the difference in raising turkeys and chickens.
I was looking for a way to keep poop off my turkey poults when I found your question. I am very interested to see if you figured it out. I have fine wood shavings. I have to clean their feet and today I put the fines from a bale of alfalfa hay to see if that will help. My brooder is a 50 gal...
It has been a stormy, rainy day here since about 4am. The electric has been off for about an hour. I have 5 baby chinese brown geese 10 days old and 15 heritage turkeys 1 week old with no light or heat. I also have 22 laying hen eggs in the incubator. Just candled last night and all are fertile...
I had a black tailed Japanese bantam setting on 6 eggs she hatched 4 and got off the nest. She had 2 eggs remaining that were pipped and luckily I had an incubator going with goose and duck eggs so put them in with them. They hatched the next day one chick had to be helped because dried out but...