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    Semi-Pencilled Bronze Turkey

    I have a few juvenile turkeys that I believe to be semi-penciled bronzes. Are they? Does anyone have pictures of adult ones? Here's what they look like:
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    Young Turkeys Gobbling

    I've seen a few videos of hens gobbling, but I haven't had that happen with pet turkeys or wild turkeys. I assumed the videos were fake in some way.
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    Young Turkeys Gobbling

    I have some 3-month-old turkeys starting to gobble, which I've never had them do before. I know both sexes strut as poults, but is gobbling a solely male thing when they're poults?
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    Stressed poults! Help!

    I haven't had issues with pine shavings, but a lot of other people seem to. Sand makes great bedding, straw is alright, and paper towels (not newspaper) work well too.
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    Putting Turkey Poults outside…

    I had 3 - 5-week-old turkey poults in as cold as 14 degrees last November, and they lived. I think once they're fully feathered they can tolerate about any temperature.
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    has anyone Crossed a black and white Turkey?

    https://www.porterturkeys.com/turkeycolorcalculator.htm The White Holland tom would make barred black turkeys. The Bourbon Red tom would make rusty black turkeys.
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    Broody Turkey Hen Questions

    It worked. I moved her to the other nesting box. At first, she was just trying to get back to the former nesting box, but once I gave her the eggs she immediately started sitting on them.
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    Broody Turkey Hen Questions

    I have a 2-year-old Narragansett hen named Karen who started sitting on a nest last Monday. There were 18 eggs in the nest when she started out. I have one other hen that keeps laying eggs and trying to co-nest, even though Karen rips her up. Anyway, I'm worried that having too many eggs will...
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    Turkey Poults Suddenly Dying

    I did that for the first few days, but I didn't know that I should've kept doing it. I've got more eggs in the incubator, hopefully I'll have better luck with them.
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    Turkey Poults Suddenly Dying

    Yes, I did the night before.
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    Turkey Poults Suddenly Dying

    They were in separate brooders just in the same room.
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    Turkey Poults Suddenly Dying

    Any ideas on what may have killed them?
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    Turkey Poults Suddenly Dying

    I had 7 - 2-week-old turkey poults. They were doing just fine, and then all of a sudden, 5 of them died this morning within 2 hours of each other, 1 died 2 hours later, and 1 is still alive. I feed them a 30% protein turkey starter from MFA. I did not medicate their water. I do however have a...
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    Weird turkey behavior

    I think she does it all the time, but I really have no way of knowing. She might just see or hear me coming and does it.
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    New turkey owner

    Domestic turkeys imprint very easily. If you handle them frequently, then they will attach to you. Imprinted turkeys can be aggressive toward people, but turkeys that are not imprinted can be aggressive too. With my 2 bronze turkey hens one would submit to me and the tom, but the other would...
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