Search results for query: *

I'm jealous of all the egg layers right now. Tough winter, lots of snow still on the ground, and zero turkey eggs. They usually start around March 15. The latest that they've started laying is March 25 until this year. Now it is April 5 and still no eggs. I think I figured that May 14 is...

This spring, I ordered some pencilled palm eggs from a BYC member. Several hatched, three survived. Of these three, one looks like a very dark pencilled palm. The one in the middles with the mostly white tail. However, the other two look like this....(also in the center back of the...

I have always thought that the Golden Phoenix turkeys were especially attractive. Unfortunately, I live in Minnesota and the few producers that actually have enought turkey varieties to have a few on hand (Porter's, for example), don't ship to Minnesota. So I have endeavored to make my own...

Dysfunctional turkey people...or people who know about dysfunctional turkeys... I have 35 turkeys right now, and two of them have caruncles that look to be made of cauliflower. Each caruncle that is normally one smooth bump is segmented. Even the little caruncles on top of the head are...

As promised, this is the thread to respond to the turkey color genetics lessons. Let me know if you like them, don't like them, find mistakes, or want to express something else. Maybe a good place to post pictures of turkeys that show traits described in the lessons. Whatever you want to do...

Introduction Genetics is the science of how traits are passed from one generation to another. Turkey color genetics questions are common on this site, and some people have asked for a guide to color genetics. Hopefully this thread will be a useful reference. I will create another thread...

I have an eight week old bronze hen that I noticed had a swollen eye. When I examined it more closely, the eye had bubbles in it, as if they were forming from the tear duct. The other turkeys had been pecking at it of course, so I sent the bird to the hospital brooder. Last night (24 hrs...

My Royal Palm tom is liking my bourbon red hen. The problem is the hen just hatched a bunch of poults. I went out to get some pictures, and when the hen lowered herself to warm the poults, the tom tried to mount her. He didn't really look where he was stepping. So I put the tom in an empty...

There have been several posts about mixing up bronze and Narragansett poults. Here are some pictures of 23 day old poults that show some differences between the two. The bronzes are dark plumaged. Note especially the wing feathers. Narragansetts begin to look frosted after about 3 weeks...

I was incubating 8 Royal Palm X Bourbon Red eggs. Yesterday was day 28. In the morning, cracks had appeared on two eggs. By midafternoon there were first cracks on five eggs, and I had seen seven moving. But the early cracks had not progressed. I was beginning to despair when I hadn't seen...

My first ever batch of turkey eggs is on day 27. It feels like they have been incubating for 6 months compared to chicken eggs. One of the eggs is wiggling But the suspense is killing me! They are Royal Palm X Bourbon Red to produce intermediates for Golden Phoenix. The hen is setting on...

This was my first attempt at hatching chicken eggs. I bought a Hovabator and an egg turner. It was ridiculously fun!!! Warmed up incubator for two days. Set eggs on a Thursday night. Filled the egg turner with 41 eggs (I know this is not recommended but what the heck!) 12 Cuckoo...

I filled an egg turner to the brim with 41 eggs. One hatched at 18 1/2 days, 1 at 19 1/2, and 3 at 20 days with more cracking, and another 25 eggs still quiet (21 days is tomorrow evening). Could the early hatch of some eggs been caused by uneven heat in the incubator? If using a turner...

I started a Hovabator with 41 chickens last week. I let it run for two days to set the temperature. The day after I put the eggs in was a very sunny warm day, and the room with the incubator got a little warm. When I got home from work, the thermometer that I trust the most said 104.7. I...

Dear online diagnosticians. I have two turkeys that are doing less well than they should. Any advice is helpful as I am woefully ignorant in the disease area. Turkey 1, Narragansett tom. He has a deep purple head, very runny, almost liquid, green stool. Lethargic, loss of appetite but still...

I'm sure this has been discussed, by my super slo-mo satellite internet makes reviewing the searches ridiculously tedious. I want to band turkeys to keep track of lineage. It appears to me that I will need to start with small bands and replace bands as the birds grow. I am looking for...

I have never looked at the standard of perfection until very recently. I haven't done much breeding, and I don't do any showing so it wasn't very relevant to me. But I am starting to do a little breeding so I thought it would be a good idea to look up what my birds should look like. For royal...

Questions sometimes arise as to how much this or that turkey should weigh. Next season I intend to keep weekly weights and make some growth curves. Just for fun, I weighed some of my birds at 20 weeks. Here is what I found. St Bronze tom 20 lb St Bronze hen 11 lb Bourbon Red tom...

We have been raising layers for several years. I like having a rooster around for the looks and the crowing. We usually keep one at a time, and as soon as the rooster starts ripping up the hens and attacking my wife, he gets eaten and we start over the next spring. We have decided we want to...

One of my BRs is holding its head funny. Bent toward the right with the head tilted so the left eye is up. The left eye is sometimes closed. It walks and eats well, although I have not yet seen it drink. Sometimes it stands a little upright and sometimes its wings droop slightly. I can get...