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Well....I did my first turkey ever last night. Plucking was a breeze, but I have to say I'd rather gut a deer before doing another turkey. He was HUGE!!! My twelve year old son could not pick it up after the bird was processed. I wish I had a scale. My best guess would be that he was around...

Thanks for the idea! I've decided to off him with the .22 pistol, then take him into the garage where I already have a pulley setup. I forgot about this, I had it all setup from a deer I shot one year. I am really only dreading the one shot and then the feather plucking. Everything else is...

I was planning on using the .22 pistol (pistol is just easier to handle with one hand). Do you bleed out turkeys? We never did with the chickens, but they are done so fast it wouldn't make sense to. I worked 2 summers in the family slaughter house doing cows, pigs, and sheep. We always bled...

I dug up this old post because I think I was originally right in my accessment that I have a broad breasted bronze and not a standard bronze. My turkey has not been able to get up and walk for the last 2 days. He's a big fat ba$tard! I need to send him off to camp, but with the darn cold snap...

I hear ya there! Mine is like a hungry dog. Always ready for table scraps. Does anyone ever use some type of sweet feed to finish them off? I know my dad use to do that for the beef cattle he raised and just wonder if it would work on turkeys too?

I am soooo tempted to weigh him, but I'm having issues with pinched nerves in my back and that would probably send me off to the doc if I did try it.

He is 18 weeks old. I wish there was some way to tell for sure if he is BB. I don't want to NOT eat him and then have him die on me. I guess I'll have to see how he's doing about mid-November and make the decision then. Right now all my birds (6 chickens and 1 turkey) are crammed into a...

So if this is a broad breated bronze how long can he live? If he is doomed a short life then TG dinner he is. If he can stick around we'd like that. I'm good with it either way.

Yep sure looks like BBB now. What do you think?

My turkey is so large I really don't think I could pick him up. I'll get a pic on here as soon as possible.

So a pic would help to tell? I could post a pic tonight. I wish I could weigh him, but I doubt I could get him to cooperate for that. What I am trying to avoid here is keeping him as a pet and then having him die from being so huge. He is 19 weeks right now and looks very large to me, but...

I have one tom turkey that I was sold as a poult and told it was a bronze heritage turkey. There is no mistaking he is a bronze. What I wonder though is if he isn't really a broad breasted bronze and not a heritage? There is a slight difference isn't there? He is getting so big and it just...