A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[SilkieSensation]

No, it is not that. JJ has not been close enough to that hen They were separated in late Feb.  The only male that has been close to the blue hen is the lavender/self blue tom.


I think it is a mule, the cross between a guinea and a chicken.  My wife said it  is small in size and there was a hatched guinea egg but no baby guinea.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/834929/very-unusual-chick-guinea-chicken-hybrid/280#post_15347168

If by some miracle it was JJ's like a real long lived sperm, it is still a permanent resident.  My wife named him and that means he is staying. But whatever he is he looks cool. 


It is kind of fun not knowing for sure what I am getting. LOL


He has a funny posture I think too, BUT I have only seen the picture and not him... DW named him penguin and I think that means the posture must be weird for a pout.

Tell her to look for a snood (the bump on the head of a turkey). Snood=turkey

 

[SilkieSensation]

And as for long lived sperm, someone just posted about hatching poults this spring after losing their tom mid-winter. So the hen was fertile 3 months after the tom died.

 

[duluthralphie]

Tell her to look for a snood (the bump on the head of a turkey). Snood=turkey

I shall do that!!

I know I am probably wrong, I just wonder how it came to be with the way I have the birds separated.

 

[duluthralphie]

Will she a snood at this young age?

 

[SilkieSensation]

Will she a snood at this young age?

If she looks really close she can see the snood. Sometimes the hatching goo will cake the feathers down around it for a couple days but if she gently rubs the head between the eyes it should clear the crusty stuff & let the snood pop up.

 

[duluthralphie]

Here are the ones that hatched with this one..

 

[chicken pickin]

Here are the ones that hatched with this one..

The first pic looks like a guinea chick

 

[R2elk]

Quote: The first one is a pearl gray guinea keet.

 

[R2elk]

Quote:
Pearl Gray guinea keet

Black Slate turkey poult

It appears to be a black slate. Just look at its feet and the feet of your pearl gray guinea keet and you can see the difference between a guinea keet's feet and a turkey' poult's feet.

 

[feedman77]

Got my palm trio this morning.

They said both hens are laying.

One everyday. The other every other day.

The bigger of the 2 hens they said keeps wanting to go broody at the drop of a hat. So we will see how that goes.

Not sure if I want to try a broody again just yet.

The tom is a good looking bird. I think he's is about 2 due his spur and beard size. But he suits me just fine.

So if I get some eggs maybe ill have better luck on a hatch than my first round and have some palm poults running around.