I hopefully will be hatching african dewlap geese in the spring. I have a young trio raised last year if anyone would be interested. Located in hawkins county
I have hatched out around 20 keets this year and all of them are hens. I only have one older male so was hoping for a few males but I guess it's the year of the hens.
Well I have a update on the on my situation. The other black hens eggs all hatched and I now have blue slate poults alive and doing great. A couple of the other hens eggs hatched and they are a totally different color. I am now wondering if maybe she is a wild turkey instead of a black phase...
they all free range together. The problem is the black poults hatch fine. Its only the blue poults that aren't hatching or die soon after. All eggs out of the same hen until next month.
Oh I forgot to also say that all the eggs so far are out of the same hen. I have the first ones out of the other hen to hatch the second. If they all hatch I am going to find the one hen a new home.
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I have 4 black ones going strong and just opened the last two up that were suppose to hatch yesterday both blue and dead in shell. That makes a total of 7 dead blue ones. I had one blue hatch about 2 weeks ago with 2 blacks and it was dead the next morning. I got my Tom from cackle last...
I am hatching out blue slate turkeys. My hens are black and the Tom is blue with black specks. The problem I am having is all the blue poults die the day after they hatch or die in shell right before they hatch. All the black poults hatch and do great. What am I doing wrong or is this some kind...
I have one keet that has hatched. By the pictures on the internet it looks to me like a royal purple but this is my first one to ever hatch. I am not sure it seems darker than the chocolate keet pics.
I wish I could find info on colors. Like if you breed this to this you get this kinda thing. What colors produce what. I have searched the internet but not really anything that I have found.
this is the second breeding season for the white hen but the chocolates are less than a yr old. I figured that he just doesn't have it down yet or he is to obsessed with a Cornish hen that he sticks with all the time....lol
thanks for the info. I am going to try and find another male to see if that helps.the white hen is out of whites so I guess I have chocolate pied keets , I am happy with that. I would love to find a buff male but they are non existing around here. Most people just have pearl grays.
I have a male chocolate and 2 chocolate hens and a white hen. For some reason only the whites eggs are fertile. Anyone know if the chocolates are harder to hatch? Also crossing chocolate to white what color will the offspring be ?
They were candled and placed in a turner with the air sac up till day 18. Then placed in a carton to hatch. Never had this happen before and wondering why they hatched upside down.
Have a question. I just hatched a batch of araucana eggs and half of them were upside down and died. I have hatched several before but never this breed. Anyone else had this problem ?
The thread has died. Anyway wanted to say I butchered one of my blue slate toms on Tuesday. He weighed 28 pounds at 8 months. His breast alone was 8.2. And tasted great a lot better than ones from the store.
I am about an hr east of Knoxville. What you do with them is your business....lol I have 1 royal palm, and two blue slates one of which is lavender phase. I am keeping two slates for breeding. I got them as poults last May. I can home today with them fighting and their heads all beaten up.
As much as I don't want to I am going to have to sell some of my Tom turkeys. They are super friendly but they have started fighting and I hate to see them fighting so much. I guess the breeding season is on its way and 3 of the 5 is going to have to go. Ugh Also my male guinea has decided...