Recent content by I Like Turkeys

Looking good! Lots of color variation, but that’s to be expected. I see a few with a down color reminiscent of what I tend to see. I’ll be mighty curious to see how they all feather out. Hopefully you’ll see darker heads in the chicks, without the ridiculously annoying breast spangling that...

Yeah, good catch! I forgot to mention that aspect, but the crossed birds have been stronger than the non-crossed ones. Around the time I hatched the first paint and self black, I had noticed them originally growing at 2x the pace and size of the black crested white chicks they were hatched...

I don’t really know what caused her off white color. Her color might be from the sun, honestly. After a few months of constant exposure, everyone’s feathers seem tinted in some way. Her and her offspring’s feathers are tinting much quicker than the normal way silver feathers seem to get dirty

I’ll be sharing more photos of them as they grow up. As for what I’ve been doing- it mostly sums down to breeding my black crested white rooster to a white and silver laced hen, and getting chicks that look like black crested whites. I don’t know why, though, as I thought this color wouldn’t...

I think I hatched out a regal red poult? It came from my red turkeys, of which my male and 2/3 of my females are bb’, and it’s super white. It’s the first poult of the year to hatch from them too, which is exciting. I wasn’t sure whether I’d actually get any. Hopefully it does wind up solid red...

That Jenny is incredibly beautiful.

I’m beginning to see that these birds rival my Cochins in broodiness. 3 more have gone broody, potentially even 4… meaning I only have 2 hens of the 8 I have who haven’t shown any broody-like behavior.

These two are the interesting cross chicks. Either from the silver laced hen, or my white hen, seeing as those are my only two bearded birds and both chicks inherited that. There’s a third, it’s mostly black marked, and I somewhat expect it to feather out like a silver laced. This is the...

2 grow outs I’m liking somewhat. Cockerel, 3 months old. First bird to have more of a semi-laced breast issue rather than semi-spangled breast issue. He’s got a really yellow tint to him as well, and I can’t tell if it’s grime or not, since he seemed to just grow into it, and the others lack...

Yep. Columbine sounds like what it was labeled as now. Thank you both.

Entry 2 Spiderwort. It’s all over my yard, and one of my favorite flowers.

Entry 1 Can’t remember the name for this flower off the top of my head.

I’m aware, that’s the reason my breeding slate pen tom is a lavender. The 100% chance for his poults to get the dominant slate gene was something I was really interested in, and he hasn’t disappointed. The rusty black didn’t come from him, that was from an egg collected after her pen move… I...

Thank you. The head color part was what had me a bit hesitant. I don’t think I’ve seen a rusty black or rusty slate poult homozygous for the black base before, with such a white facial marking. The tom I had her under was a lavender, he couldn’t have produced rusty blacks. I was using “slates”...

I don’t know. I’ve been using a lavender tom from McMurray to breed slates for the last two years, and I don’t know what their practices over there are like, or whether something like that could’ve happened. I do know that last year i didn’t get any weirdly colored poults though. Just the...