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After having turkey for a few years now, I've decided to go with a pure breeding flock and want to use Black Spanish Turkey. I don't want hatching eggs. Any recommendations for a breeder or hatchery to get a good foundation stock?

They both hang out with my older tom.. They only chirp. They come onto the porch when I walk outside.. No displaying. I'm suspecting males too but they behave so calm.

My poults are 12 weeks old...can anyone tell what they are?

I've asked the question on the fibromelanotic poultry fb page as well.. There has to be a method to getting better hatch rates!! I really don't want to lose these, it may be my only opportunity!!

I have three Swedish Black hen eggs in the incubator.. But the lady I got them from says that they're a hard hatch and even tho she normally has high hatch rates, this breed she has trouble with late quitters or death after pip. Any tips???

Lol.. I know, but then I have to explain what W means..in my mind it's Z/- because its absence, but you're correct.

White covers expression of color bases and patterns and can be either dominant or recessive. There are no sexlinked attributes of that cross. I will be experimenting with silver/gold sexlinks in the near future.. Silver is dominant to gold and the trait is also located on the Z sex gene.. So if...

For black sexlinks yes, but the barred parent has to be female. Here's the way it works.. Barring is located on the Z gene which is also the sex gene and is dominant to base color so only one copy is needed to produce a barred bird. In chickens, a male is Z/Z and a female is Z/0.. When bred...

What is an AM? As long as the father does not have a gene for barring/cuckoo then all male chicks will hatch with a white spot on the tops of their heads. As long as the chicks surrounding down color is dark enough (not white or light yellow) then they can be identified. The white underbelly...

That portion of his wing does appear slightly darker.. This picture doesn't have as much shadow to it.

He is 2 1/2 to 3 months old.. I was told lavender, but I don't know what that's considered... I have 3 black Pied hens and 3 blue hens and got him for breeding. Is that considered a silver type gene? All the silvers I see look metallic cream

Not sure how soon befoyegg collection you separated the female, but chickens have a specialized sperm pouch and can store viable sperm for several weeks. You should wait at least 3 weeks before incubating eggs after removing a rooster.. I wait a full calendar month. As far as the chicks you've...

No offense taken. What breeds produced your EE?

looks like a Turken legbar cross.. I know she doesn't seem to have the brown breast.. But not all of them do