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Quote: I gut them just enough the get the heart, liver & gizzard, we use that for sausage. The leg 1/4's we either use for sausage or debone the thighs and cook them like that and the legs, wings we put in the pressure cooker, 15 pounds for 15 minutes and use that meat for taco's etc. The...

We skin and cut up most of our turkeys, whole birds are for special meals. There is just the two of us so a whole turkey takes days to eat. Plus a whole bird takes way to much space in the freezer. Steve

How old is he Moe? looking at the one pic from the front he doesn't have the wide spread legs of a BBB but from the side he does have the rounded body shape. There is no telling how long a BB type will make it. Some people do keep them for years, keep a close eye out for leg problems, make sure...

Quote: If it's that big it's a BBB Here is some pics of our standard bronze that we took last fall/winter so they were about 6 months old... ish. They are big, the toms are now over waist high on me and go around 40 pounds easy. Steve

Quote: From http://albc-usa.org/cpl/turkdefinition.html Since I don't think the OP got the bird in the early 30's to late 50's i'm still saying size and weight will be the biggest factor in figuring out if it is a BBB or Standard Bronze. As your cut and paste said the modern BBB is not like...

Size is the biggest difference between a BB type and a heritage. People have raised and kept the BB types but more often than not they get so heavy that the legs can't support them and that ends up bad. If it is a BBB there is no way to tell how long it will make it. Steve