I have 6 turkey poults (3 1/2 weeks old) from Murray McMurray. this afternoon we noticed that one of them is holding its leg up and out to the side. Its joint on that leg is twice the size of the other leg. It can grasp with the toes but dosent want to keep weight on it. We are brand new to...
The one in the back with the black around it's eye is Patch :-) we are pretty sure it is going to be a black white crested polish
I am super excited to see what the bantams grow up to be
We will be doing turkeys for the first time this year so i was full of questions also. A good family friend has been doing a mixed Turkey and Chicken flock for years and uses the game bird starter for the turkeys in the begining then flock raiser for everyone with free choice oyster shell for...
Yep hdowden thats what i'm running into too ...the red/bronze color on the head is throwing me off. The Grey is a very soft almost dove grey everywhere except the head...i've been looking all over the different sites and haven't seen a bird yet that looks like this little one
Final verdict ..White ones are White Wyandottes, the Brown are Welsummers, the Black and White are an Excequer leghorn and a Silver Spangled Hamburg ..they grew into very nice looking adult birds.
from the TSC - assorted Bantam bin (Mt Healthy Hatchery)
Anyone have a guess on this one? I'm pretty sure about the others but this one has me stumped.
My guesses are-
Nugget- Silver spangled hamburg (looks a lot like mine from MM last year)
4- Welsummer
5 and 6 - Australorp (bottom of feet pinkish white) or Jersey Giant (bottom of feet yellow)
I ordered the rainbow layer collection from them last year and the birds are great!
We are in Indiana they have the chicks blocked off here too. Our local TSC is great and the staff is very helpful we got 12 chicks and they took the time to catch the ones we wanted. We did have to sign the book at checkout but i think i had to do that last year also. There was a nice variety to...