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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:

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?

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...

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...

I have this hen that's been standing in a weird way. She's been doing it for a week or two. I thought that she was just laying an egg, but I don't think that's the case because she does it 24/7. Sometimes she'll do a weird head bobbing thing too. Does anyone no what's wrong with her?

I have a Royal Palm hen that is 3 years old. She hasn't laid yet this year. She has always started laying in early March. What age do turkeys stop laying? My other 5 hens have been laying for 3 or 4 weeks now.

I have 3 BB Bronze turkeys, a tom and 2 hens. They are all 2 years old. I'm taking them to an auction to sell them tomorrow. How much money do you think they should go for?

I have this 1.5 year old turkey, and I cannot figure out what sex it is. It's either the wimpiest jake ever, or a bearded hen.

Are these turkey even old enough to be sexed before I start taking more pictures? Also, what variety are they (if you can tell) because I'm leaning towards Royal Palm?

I purchased a 1 1/2-year-old breeding pair of Sweetgrass turkeys today, $60 for the pair. I also bought 3 Royal Palm juveniles from last spring at $15 a piece; they are all 3 supposed to be hens, but I think they are still too young to age them. Was this a good deal or did I get ripped off?

One of my hens and my tom were standing across from each other, with a fence in between them for a few hours today. They were both strutting and making the trilling sound. I eventually just opened the gate between them and let them fight it out. My tom won, but my hen seems to hold a grudge...

One of my hens has been looking really raggedy for the past 2 weeks, and now she's starting to lose her tail feathers and develop bare spots. It looks like she's molting, but November seems really late for it. Will she be fine as it is starting to get/will get colder? Have you had this happen...

I have 3 bronze turkeys that are 22 weeks old, and I got them on March 20th. Yesterday my bronze tom started breeding one of my hens after she submitted to him. Is this normal for that age because I had read that they wouldn't reach sexual maturity until 6 or 7 months old? Also, will my bronze...

I've been looking for either peachicks or hatching eggs to buy, but before I make a purchase I'd like some advice and/or tips for starting with peafowl. These are my main questions, but any information you can give will help: What kind of feed do I need? Are they able to be tamed like other...

I've been wanting to get peafowl, and put them in with my turkeys. Has anybody tried this, and does this work? Also, if I kept my peahens with my hen turkeys and my peacocks with my tom turkeys would that work?

This is more of a story than a question, but one of my 13-week old turkeys (a hen) likes to talk to my 5-week old turkey poults. She makes a soft clucking sound at them like she is being friendly, but once she reaches them she'll start to peck them. I've just been thinking of it as her luring...

I have three standard bronze turkeys that are all about 13 weeks old. In a separate container inside their run, I have 6 standard bronze turkeys that are all about 5 weeks old. Whenever I take out one of the younger turkeys one of my older turkeys (a suspected hen) will come over and talk to it...

When the mating season starts next spring I plan on separating at breeder pairs of 1 tom and 2 to 3 hens. My first question, is how long can a fertile egg sit before it starts to lose its fertility? My second question, is if I have 2 or 3 hens that all hatch poults will the hens treat each...

One of my turkey poults from my latest batch died today because she got trampled by the others, and couldn't breathe. Is there a way to prevent this from happening again? They are all either 5 or 6 days old.