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June 24, 2010 by Helen

Turkeys – day 2

Turkeys – day 2

It is June 23rd and  day two incubating our turkey eggs.  An incubator is the white box Stephen and I are sitting in front of. What you do is you put the turkey eggs in and turn every morning and night. The only way to know what side to turn them on is if you put x a o on each side of the egg. It takes twenty-eight days for the turkey eggs to hatch. Tonight mom Stephen(brother) and I went over we took a cup of warm water put it into the little tray that sits under to provide moisture for the turkey babies to grow, we also turned the eggs to the o’s.  Then we had to put what we did on the chart to  know when we need to start candaling which is using a flashlight.  We have decided on day eight to put in chicken eggs as well as the turkey eggs. Chicken eggs take 21 days.

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  1. Jan says

    June 24, 2010 at 9:32 pm

    Good luck with the turkey babies, Helen! Keep us posted on their progress.

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Welcome to our homesteading adventure in south central BC, Canada! In 2009 we started building an earthship in Darfield. We moved in three and a half years later. Now that the biggest jobs are finished we are having fun homesteading in a modern world. Join us for discussions about finishing the earthship, food preservation, beekeeping, livestock, permaculture and how we interact with technology. It's all about simple living and stewardship of the land without deprivation. Together with our three teenagers we're learning as we go.

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