1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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KEEPING TURKEY EGGS. 
0. S. P., Menlo, Ga .—I have a flock of 
fine turkeys, and some ol' them have been 
laying as late as December. If 1 should 
hold the eggs until early Spring would 1 they 
keep, and would they hatch? The eggs are 
good so far. I have placed them in cotton 
seed, and every week I turn them over, so 
they will not go all to one side. 
I do not think eggs can be kept over a 
month with any degree of success in 
hatching. I think turkey eggs will keep 
longer than most other kinds. To keep 
them I would have them turned at least 
two or three times a week, keeping them 
in a cool place. d. a. mount. 
New Jersey. 
I think it quite improbable that those 
December turkey eggs will hatch in the 
Spring. The sooner eggs are hatched 
after being laid the larger the hatch and 
the more vigorous the young. We set our 
incubators in the evening of the day the 
eggs are laid. In the case of extremely 
valuable eggs, would use them if three 
weeks old. hilandale farm. 
Our own experience has been with keep¬ 
ing eggs in Summer, and old eggs, say 
those from six weeks to two months old, 
have not hatched well. Your reader’s only 
way, I think, to tell about the keeping 
of the eggs would be to try it. Were they 
mine, and I could find a setting hen in 
the country, I should set her, hatch the 
eggs, and depend upon keeping the young¬ 
sters with the hen in a dry warm place, 
with such a box in the coop that they 
would be protected from the cold weather 
during night. cooper curtice. 
Rhode Island. 
We have had no experience with 
turkey eggs, and do not know their keep¬ 
ing qualities, but from our experience 
with hen’s eggs and keeping them for 
three weeks for our own incubators when 
we were starting in the poultry business, 
and only had a small flock to save from, 
we could tell the difference between 
eggs one week old and three weeks old in 
the per cent of hatch and in the strength 
of chicks after hatching. Therefore I 
doubt if turkey eggs will hatch at all if 
kept so long, and even if they should 
hatch the vitality would be so low that 
the poults would be worthless. 
New York. floyd q. white. 
We do not believe it would be safe for 
your reader to hold her turkey eggs over 
a month or six weeks at the latest, as 
after that time the germ seems to die in 
the ewe. and it is almost impossible to get 
any birds out of the eggs. We have kept 
hen’s evgs for about that length of time, 
hut they hatched very unsatisfactorily, 
coming out sometimes three .or four days 
later than fresher ones would, which read¬ 
ily shows that holding them too long does 
no good. We suggest that the inquirer 
would better eat her eggs while they are 
fresh and not hold them too long. If the 
turkeys were hatched now, they would not 
amount to much, on account of the cold 
weather, as it stunts their growth. 
H. kretzler. 
I have kept turkey eggs for six weeks 
by laying them on the floor in a room with 
cool even temperature, and turning them 
every day. I see no reason why they should 
not be kept even longer than that, if the 
room could be kept at somewhere near 50 
degrees. But why should you wish to 
keep them in a climate like Georgia? 
Young turkeys hatched in February should 
make fine growth before hot weather and 
anyone within shipping distance of the 
health resorts and hotels of Georgia and 
Florida could sell broiler turkeys at a 
high price during the Spring months. 
I should certainly try that if I was 
fortunate enough to have turkey hens 
lay in December. JOHN H. janney. 
Maryland. 
I do not like to keep eggs over 15 days 
for best hatching results, though I have 
had some which have carried longer. I 
have known of eggs three months old to 
hatch 10 chicks from 12 eggs. One time 
a person engaged two settings of eggs 
from me which were to be called for at 
my house. These were from special lay¬ 
ing pens, packed the night of same day’s 
laying. The purchaser did not call for 
these for five weeks, during which time 
they lay in basket packed in bran, and 
securely fastened with burlap. Seeing 
him one day on the street I asked him as 
to results, and he said he had only just 
got the eggs. I told him as to condi¬ 
tions, and he said he would chance it. 
As it happened, hens intended to incubate 
went on a strike, and it was four weeks 
more before they were set, each 12 eggs 
hatching, when time was up, 10 chickens. 
This is the limit, and actual facts. 
Hartford, Conn. f. o. groesbeck. 
I do not know how long turkeys’ eggs 
can be kept without losing vitality. Un¬ 
doubtedly the time will depend upon the 
vigor of the turkeys whose eggs are to be 
kept. I have never known turkeys’ eggs 
to be kept longer than about three weeks. 
1 hese hatched satisfactorily. Theoretical¬ 
ly it would seem that turkeys’ eggs could 
be kept successfully for a longer period be¬ 
fore incubation than hens’ eggs. The life 
germ seems to have greater vitality; at 
least it would appear so from the fact that 
one mating with a male is sufficient with 
turkeys for an entire litter of eggs. In 
fact, one instance has been reported to me 
where one mating was sufficient to pro¬ 
duce fertile eggs for an entire litter, and 
the influence to have extended through 
the incubation period and into the next 
litter, which proved fertile without a sec¬ 
ond mating. I cannot vouch for the ac¬ 
curacy of this statement through personal 
knowledge, but am repeating the state¬ 
ment as it was given to me by a turkey 
raiser of large experience. 
With hens’ eggs, we feel that the vi¬ 
tality decreases rapidly after the second 
or third week, and that eggs ordinarily 
should not be more than two weeks old 
when incubated, though I have known of 
first-rate hatches from eggs that were 
three weeks old. Much will depend 
either with hens’ or turkeys’ eggs, upon 
the way in which they are kept. So far 
as we now know, the temnerature should 
be between 50 and 60 degrees. It has 
been definitely proven that the process of 
development of the germ commences, 
though slowly, at a temperature between 60 
and 70 degrees. The eggs should be 
turned regularly every two or three days, 
to prevent the yolk of the egg from float¬ 
ing to the surface and coming in contact 
with the shell. The life germ being on 
top of the yolk on the lightest portion of 
the egg, would be the portion destroyed if 
it should stick to the membrane against 
the dried surface of the shell. In order 
to prevent evaporation, it is well to cover 
the eggs with a flannel cloth. Jarring, 
of course, should be avoided. 
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