A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[sfgwife]

Sfwife....the Coondog Classi was in Mississippi. "Duke of Paducah" is an old saying...
But I too LOVE the quilt museum & shops there!!

Oh oops lol! I never saw where you were goin before.

 

[yoopergirl1211]

I sold my royal palm Tom Fri. I hadn't really planned on it but an army wife came over for some blue Muscovy and saw him and pretty much begged for him. Her husband is coming home from over seas this week and its going to be his welcome home gift. They have a female all by herself that he loves and now she'll have a boyfriend. Seem like good people. I'll miss him.

the rest of my flock are sick of snow I think lol. Over Christmas the area I live in was all over national news for 50+ inches of snow. Just hit a new record for our area.

I might give Porters a try. I really just want some eye candy for my welcoming committee. People stop by just to say hi to my turkey/guinea flock and my mailman went from scared to bringing peas with to toss out to them lol. Anywhere else that sells cross breeds or experimental colors?

 

[FredsGobblers]

@yoopergirl1211 Porters is the only one I know that sells crosses. You may check craigslist or see if any livestock auctions near you if you are not wanting to buy the 15 min from Porters

 

[Molpet]

I sold my royal palm Tom Fri. I hadn't really planned on it but an army wife came over for some blue Muscovy and saw him and pretty much begged for him. Her husband is coming home from over seas this week and its going to be his welcome home gift. They have a female all by herself that he loves and now she'll have a boyfriend. Seem like good people. I'll miss him.
View attachment 1261644 the rest of my flock are sick of snow I think lol. Over Christmas the area I live in was all over national news for 50+ inches of snow. Just hit a new record for our area.
View attachment 1261645 View attachment 1261646 View attachment 1261647 I might give Porters a try. I really just want some eye candy for my welcoming committee. People stop by just to say hi to my turkey/guinea flock and my mailman went from scared to bringing peas with to toss out to them lol. Anywhere else that sells cross breeds or experimental colors?

He is handsome
Porters is the only one i know of.. late last season they had them on sale for around 5 a piece I think .. If I had room for 15, i would have gotten some.

 

[yoopergirl1211]

I actually have room for the 15! Maybe I will just get them. Not many options where I'm at for turkeys. Hoping I can remedy that some day. Going to get a bunch of meat turkeys too to sell around thanksgiving.

 

[duluthralphie]

I have mainly crosses here. or will have this year.

I want to play with the colors some. I have decided to not raise anything "pure".

I will never show turkeys, so why just have the "standards". I like that Whatever,,whatever,,whatever, Narragansett hen is.

I am not sure what I will use on what. It will pretty much depend on what I feel like when I throw a Tom in with the girls. (science at it's best)

 

[memphis]

Ralphie....have you shipped poults? Curious how they did.

 

[R2elk]

Ralphie....have you shipped poults? Curious how they did.

I do not know how well Ralphie has done on shipping turkey poults but there is a reason that they typically require a minimum of 15 poults for shipment. I ordered 15 Royal Palm poults last year. They sent 16 and all 16 survived and did well. I do know that a neighbor got 4 of them from me and did lose one that his dog killed. I believe it was around 2 months old at the time. He has lost quite a few turkeys to his own dog over the years.

 

[yoopergirl1211]

Omg I one of their tiger bronze turkeys. I want one so bad!

 

[R2elk]

Omg I one of their tiger bronze turkeys. I want one so bad!

Tiger Bronze are b1b1 Ccg pnpn so it could take some work to develop it on your own and you would definitely need to start with a penciled variety such as a Penciled Sweetgrass (b1b1 cgcg pnpn). Because the Tiger Bronze are heterozygous (Ccg) they will never be able to breed true but can produce 25% Penciled Black Winged Bronze, 25% Penciled Sweetgrass and 50% Tiger Bronze. Crossing a Penciled Black Winged Bronze with a Penciled Sweetgrass will produce 100% Tiger Bronze.