Posts by longranger

Normal. He likes you:P

Yikes!! All look like hens to me. No big snoods and the breast feathers are edged in white or buff. Pretty turkeys

Does number 2 have a snood. Looks like a chick more than a poult. May be just the photo

From experience i can tell you that the toms will be plenty meaty and the hens less so at 20 weeks. Toms are about optimal at 30 weeks. I prefer to let hens go closer to a year for yield and extra eggs.

Sorry for your bad experience. I would probably feel the same way in your shoes but am surprised Kevin would not talk things through with you. This year I ordered 33 Porter poults, got 38 including extras and have 36 healthy young...

Thomasturkey there has to be a logical explanation for why you lost so many poults. It could be one of many things including bad food, a virulent strain of cocci, poults getting chilled due to a draft, etc..  As a general rule...

With turkey poults if they arrive stressed you are fighting an uphill battle to save them. If they arrive in good shape they will thrive if given high protein food, clean water and a heat source. Don't mean to oversimplify but that has...

Kevin offers the widest variety of quality heritage poults I am aware of. I have had the pleasure of getting poults from him multiple times, about a half dozen.He cannot control the stress those babies get during shipping. None of the...

While I think of it we should give a huge huge welcome to Kevin. We are very lucky he has started participating in this forum. Also thanks for the many gorgeous poults you have sold to me:D

Don't eat them:lau:lau