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Rio Grande

I have pen raised wild and I would not recommend them for you as they do not get as big and I think (mostly on instinct) that they are not as efficient at converting feed to fowl as heritage domestic breeds like the bourbon red

Well I do not know about yours but mine (rio grande) start to lay in their first spring and that will be a ways off yet. Where you are located as well as the breed are both issues here.

Mine have a hard time accepting anything new as food but they love zucchini and have apples figured out but won't eat any other garden stuff. They love scratch best of all. And weeds, they like weeds and fresh grasses that are clipped up small. When I set a watermelon rind in there they gave...

I have only raised rio grande so my knowledge is incomplete but I think a BBB hen might be so heavy that she might break eggs, also large meat birds may have longevity issues. We will have to see if anyone with more direct knowledge contradicts me.

I think it is just there for display as a sort of barometer of a toms health and virility. All the different parts of strutting and tommish display take a lot of strength and endurance. And that is one healthy tom

Bring it some flowers.

Are you sure you need to bathe it? Most fowl dust bathe themselves.

High humidity is good. The egg carton thing sounds smart as I think all the rambunctiousness of the early hatchers may hurt the chances of the late hatchers with getting kicked around in the shell and all. My hatches spread out over two days.

Never seen the like of that before. Maybe you should try and breed for it. See if any of his sons have it.

Here is a youtube video of one of these pups - no affiliation.

It is taking it so calmly, my toms will let me pick them up if I am firm about it but if I try to pick up a hen they flog me.

They scramble up real light and fluffy but sunny side up is kind of flat in the whites and high in the yolk I can see where they would be good in an angelfood cake

It might be a little late but I could be wrong, also turkeys hate changes and that might put them off laying

I tried tucking a couple turkey eggs under a broody bantam and she sat them for a few days but abandoned them when another hen laid eggs in her nest.

If they are big broadbreasted birds they will be a lot of weight on an egg, having lots of padding may help and having a big enough nest that they can move around without stepping on the egg also may help but some birds are just too heavy.

What are you feeding it? turkeys grow a lot real fast and they need good high protein turkey or game bird food or lots of bugs to build those big bones.

Are they separate from the boys? with my turkeys the boys would try to mount a hen on the nest and break the eggs

I cannot remember when I could tell mine apart but you have a while to go yet, with mine they all both hens and toms would fan their tales at a early stage so it means not much. When the boys start getting big, bald and cranky is a good sign they are gonna be toms.

My turks are very un-adventurous when it comes to food and seem to think if they did not eat it yesterday they will not eat it today. It took two weeks to convince them to try pumpkin but now they love it, They will eat apples only if I cut them in half and will not touch broccoli or cabbage or...