A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

aliciaplus3 said:

I get anxious and remove them every 12 hours or so..... but that's just me..... my brooder is looking Full. Sigh time to build a step up one..... or something to put the next batch in.

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I learned the hard way to NOT open the hatcher until it is all over. Bowling only seems to encourage the lazy ones to get out of the shell and grab a bowling ball.

aliciaplus3 said:

That would make perfect sense as he was out of a mixed flock of standard bronze and chocolate.... one tom of each with several females of each all 5ogether. There are several black hens from the same flock with him so???? I guess getting the blacks may be harder than I thought, and last year that was mostly what we hatched..... lol I obviously have much to learn about color genetics

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If you cross your Black tom (BB Ee) with a Black hen (BB E-), any chocolate poults (BB e-) will be females.

Porter's Turkey Color Calculator

You are all in trouble....The Reigning WW will hex you I am sure..

I have avoided incubating eggs...BUT today this happened.....



Not to mention she has made it very clear my eggs are not welcome in the kitchen close to her clean dishes.. Some of you are in so much trouble!!!


5 turkey eggs and 5 toad eggs. I think. the toad eggs and turkey eggs can be hard to tell apart. (sometimes someone does not mark them when they gather eggs)

R2elk said:

If you cross your Black tom (BB Ee) with a Black hen (BB E-), any chocolate poults (BB e-) will be females.

Porter's Turkey Color Calculator

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so if I sell off most of the chocolate ones I have a higher chance of selling the hens..... lol
maybe I can talk my DD into falling in love with the chocolates??? lol
gotta love life!

aliciaplus3 said:

so if I sell off most of the chocolate ones I have a higher chance of selling the hens..... lol
maybe I can talk my DD into falling in love with the chocolates??? lol
gotta love life!

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If your Chocolate poults hatched from eggs the Black hens (that were in with your Black tom with the hidden brown gene) laid, they are hens. Yes you would be selling hens. Around here, known hens bring a higher price than do toms.

R2elk said:

If your Chocolate poults hatched from eggs the Black hens (that were in with your Black tom with the hidden brown gene) laid, they are hens. Yes you would be selling hens. Around here, known hens bring a higher price than do toms.

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my problem is that I have 15 hens in the same pen, some chocolate, some black(from chocholate/bronze), some bronze, one Narragansett, but not separated to know who laid what egg.... I guess we have live poults so really its not a problem. I just am not sure what to expect..... lol

aliciaplus3 said:

my problem is that I have 15 hens in the same pen, some chocolate, some black(from chocholate/bronze), some bronze, one Narragansett, but not separated to know who laid what egg.... I guess we have live poults so really its not a problem. I just am not sure what to expect..... lol

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Because of the Chocolate hens it is possible that the Chocolate poults could be male or female. Either way, the black tom has to have a brown gene. The Chocolate hens cannot pass their brown gene to their female offspring. They only have one brown gene and it is linked to the male gene. Males have to have two brown genes to show the Chocolate color so they have to get one of their two brown genes from their father and one from their mother.

If you breed a Chocolate tom to Black hens, all the poults will be sex linked and can be identified at hatch as to their sex. All of the female poults will be pure Chocolate and will be brown at hatch time. All of the male poults will be Black carrying a hidden brown gene and will be black at the time of the hatch. To get these results the parents must not be carrying any hidden recessive color genes. One thing that helps is that Black hens cannot be carrying the brown gene. If they had the brown gene, they would be Chocolate and not Black.

Aurora...where is the baby pictures? Any more hatch??

Gave the girls some blueberries. I swear they smiled!

memphis said:

Aurora...where is the baby pictures? Any more hatch??

Gave the girls some blueberries. I swear they smiled!

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Just had another one hatch. I'll get pictures when there are more in there though

ok so not great pics through the glass but a few of the cuties