incubator

If you've hatched chicken eggs before, you have a real head start. The fundamentals are the same: temperature, humidity, turning, and patience. But turkey eggs have their own personality, and going in without knowing the differences is one of the most common reasons a hatch disappoints.

We raise Black Spanish/Standard Bronze mix turkeys here at McGreen Acres, and we hatch in a GQF 1500 series cabinet incubator. What follows is what we've learned and what we'd want you to know before your eggs arrive.

You've decided that you want to hatch some of your own chicks, but don't know where to start. We've got you covered.

The short of it is:

I went looking around on the web for instructions on how to disable the extremely loud beeping noise our GQF Manufacturing incubator was making every time the egg turning system was going and found that there are some explanations out there, but not munch in the way of "how-to". We like to keep the incubator in the house because of the ants we have down in the stables. Below are some pointers on how to do this. You seriously only need a flat-blade screwdriver or a socket driver.