I have hatched various species in the same incubator with different start dates several times. I had almost no problems. I marked the date in pencil on their shells before I put them in and then checked every day for who was coming up to hatch soon. When they were three days from hatching, I...
Awesome! Thank you! Those are some beautiful ladies. I asked the one fellow turkey enthusiast friend I have if he’d ever had any bearded ladies and he said he’d had only one over several years. Everywhere else I’ve looked for answers makes it seem super rare. But I think it’s great and all my...
I was tucking my turkeys in last night and noticed one of my turkey hens had a beard. I thought that was strange, so I checked the rest of them, and sure enough, three of the seven hens have beards. One is over two years old and somehow I never noticed it before. The other bearded ladies are 18...
1. Obtain 18 fertilized heritage turkey eggs from a friend who raises turkeys
2. Put all the eggs in the incubator without looking up the differences between incubating chicken eggs and turkey eggs
3. Kill all but one of the turkey eggs
4. Cry to your husband
5. Drive 2 hours away to the...