Sexing turkeys

[Rstine]

I got my first turkeys last year. I started with 4 and all turned out to be toms. Now I'm not saying they weren't tasty, but I want to raise some and would like a trio. Can anybody give me sexing advice for when I buy my replacements?

 

[feedman77]

Sexing poults is a tough one. Best guarantee to getting sex correct would be to buy adult birds from a breeder or craigs list.

 

[R2elk]

I got my first turkeys last year. I started with 4 and all turned out to be toms. Now I'm not saying they weren't tasty, but I want to raise some and would like a trio. Can anybody give me sexing advice for when I buy my replacements?

These may help but are not guaranteed to work. I have had from 100% success to 0% success using these methods on day old poults.

Method used by @Celie

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/725829/turkeys-for-2013/2750

An alternate method

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10206542494500130

 

[pineapple416]

My advice is to either get old enough birds to tell the gender, or just keep getting more chicks. This happened to us once, we tried to get a female turkey companion for our other hen, and we ended up getting four males. If I were you I would just get more chicks and eat the males and keep the females if you want to. You never know, you could get all females! Good luck, hope this helps!