Recent content by MissTurkey4

Quote: I don't seem to be reading the same thing as you are. Do you have a link to that so we can all follow what your saying. I did find a good link for recessive slate. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A RECESSIVE SLATE PLUMAGE COLOR OF...

Are you going to raise Broad Breasted Turkeys or Heritage turkeys? Broad Breasted turkeys are poor flyers compared to Heritage turkeys. With your fencing they would be best. My turkeys are in a 6 foot fenced breeding pen with their wings clipped. A few hens I will find perching on the fence even...

If your box said New Mexico with a 88130 your turkeys were drop shipped from Privett Hatchery. That’s where most of the Midget whites come from. They might not be siblings. The problem when it is hot out is the eggs are not fertile do to the semen being killed by the heat. I have noticed a...

Quote: It was her as well but in the 2000 SPPA census report, she decided we needed to clear up all the confusion and stop calling all kinds of variations by the name lilac that sort of looked the same and actually pin it down to a specific genotype. Guess you don't have a copy of the 2000...

I feed mine 28-30% protein turkey/gamebird starter until I eat them or they are breeding and laying eggs. Then I switch to a turkey breeder. They need that high protein to grow strong legs and fill out. I have tried lowering the protein after 8 weeks like some people here do but the turkeys do...

I don't even try to sex them until 4 months. They change to much until then. Trying to guess before that time is just a guess like flipping a coin.

I agree, about 3 1/2 months. No way does the first pictures look less than 2 months.

Quote: What Glenn Drowns of Sandhill calls a lilac is not the same geneotype so IMO should not be called a lilac. He has the genotype of his all mixed up anyway.He lists sl as his slate gene and that is the recessive slate gene, (No longer in the US as far as anyone knows). I have also seen...

I was reading about "Lilacs" dated 1945 and recessive slate genes on page 313 and 314. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1209290/pdf/305.pdf When recessive slates of the constitution RR sl sl were mated to Bourbon Reds (ASMUNDSO19N40 ), birds with the slate color modified to a...

Quote: Lots of factors effect growth rate. Hybrid vigor might be one. If it is still not clear, there is a illustration from the resource that Porter was talking about...

I love pound cake. I never found one better than this. Its been published all over the internet and is always a hit. Elvis Presley's Favorite Pound Cake Gourmet | September 2005 This is the best pound cake we have ever tasted. Its tender appeal is owed in part to cake flour and cream, and...

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Looks like a bronze hen about 3-4 months.

In 2000, Paula Johnson of the SPPA said we should refer to the b+b+DD genotype as lilac. She also stated that what Sandhill raises is not a lilac, but actually a red slate, b+b+Dd basically, but lots of his also carry b1 ,cg ,ng and r as well from what I have seen in the results. So she is the...

Quote: From your picture you do not have a slate gene in your turkeys.