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Narragansett, What breeds do you raise? Don't make me guess ! LOL If anyone else wants to swap eggs for some Holland White hatching eggs, please let me know. I still need someone to swap with for Chocolate, arburn and Black Spanish turkeys, if I can find some to swap. If you want to swap for any...

Arlene, This is the thread I was refering to.

This is the answer, I gave to someone, who asked for advise, as to what breed to buy to have for this Thanksgiving: The way I see it there are several different types of turkeys, for different purposes. First of all you have the Royal Palms, which I have only second hand information on and that...

If anyone else want to get in on doing a taste test or want to swap eggs, just chime in and I am sure someone will hollar back!

I agree, a double blind taste test is what I had in mind. We have a very big family dinner at my brother's house, every Thanksgiving. Counting the 8 of us siblings, our children, grandchildren and a few friends, there are usually over 50 of us each year that attend. I plan to ask my daughter...

I don't see why they would not be fertile! Domestic turkey hens start presenting themselves to the toms a few days before she starts to lay, and the toms usually have their pecking order worked out by then. I didn't think all of mine would be fertile as my toms were not finished deciding who was...

Wonderful, I would love to trade with you in a couple of months! I am already running out of room in the brooder and DH has not even started the brooding room in the barn. It is too messy to brood them in the house in winter and too many cold snaps to brood them outside. Turkey poults are...

My girls have been laying for a month now. First it was only 1 or 2 every couple of days, but they are up to 4 or 5 every day, except today, I only got 1 ! So far, I have put them all into the incubator. I have hatched out 5 so far, but one cannot walk yet. He can stand against the side of...

I should have explained the young turkey we dressed out at 20 pounds was a tom. A hen would be even lighter.

I have Holland Whites and will swap with you whenever you are ready. It's just the 2 of us now, Empty Nester's, so to speak and love turkey. Sounds like Midget Whites would make a nice meal for 2 and maybe leftovers for sandwiches the next day! Holland Whites are on the other end of the scale...

My White Hollands laid 3 eggs today! I don't think they are fertile, because I saw a hen present herself to a tom today, but as he was trying to mount her, he was attacked by another tom and then a third stepped it and a free for all started, so the scared hen ran off. Tomorrow, we will separate...

Maybe someone that lives close to you can swap and you can go and pick them up? Or maybe someone that has 3 different varieties that you want to try, would like to try the breed you have and would be willing to swap with you? BTW, what breeds do you raise? Remember, 6 eggs will only weigh about...

Thanks for volenteering, I'll let everyone know when I'll be cooking them, but first I need to swap eggs and hatch the poults and then raise them all. Maybe we can make this an annual event? How would you'll like that?

That's the view of an optimist on hatching shipped turkey eggs, but I like it! And if you like a particular breed, keep a pair for breeding, instead of having to buy 15 from a hatchery and have a tasting party and if all 4 hatch, or if you want to swap 6, whatever, and freeze the rest, You get...

That sounds like a great idea you have about a taste testing, or if you only have a small family or group, you could process them within a few weeks, some turkeys, like Midget Whites aren't much larger than a chicken, or if you process them all at one time, just cut a wing or some part off the...

You're on ! That's the spirit !! I figure it will be March or so before Turkey raisers up north will be getting eggs, maybe even later. Last year my 2 hens did not start laying until February, and they were about a year and a half old then. I just got a small egg yesterday and one today from one...

I have read, time and again the question asked about which heritage breed of turkeys taste best! There are so many variables that I can think of that would effect the taste of a turkey, that this is almost an unanswerable question? I was talking to a couple of other heritage turkey raisers, who...