A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[Finnie]

(no clue how to tell them apart)

I've been wondering this same thing myself. My tom is split to narri, so I expect narris and golden narris, as well as bronzes and red bronzes from some of my hens. I've noticed that some hatch with 3 stripes on their head, and some hatch with a cross on their head. I thought that might be a way to tell. So far at one month old, the crosses and the stripes are feathering the same.

 

[memphis]

All these babies!! Y'all better be sending lots of pics!!
By the way....peachick babies are uber cute too!!

 

[PolarBerry]

Day 26 and no early hatchers like last time. We’ll see when I get home from work if anything hatches. We’ve had some storms blow through lately and hope the power didn’t get knocked out for too long while I was away.

 

[memphis]

Keep us posted Polarberry!! Good luck!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

So I took 2 of the poults from this hatch out to give to the 3 broody turkey girls. Princess has them tucked neatly under her, Pebbles is aware that they are there, and Mary I'd trying her hardest to climb over everyone to get as close to them as she possibly can lol. She was even the last one to join the pile!

 

[memphis]

How funny! The broody pile!

Got off work early. Long week. But all stress disappears when your turkeys greet you with trills & twirls. Funny birds! Daisy needs to start shaking out her dust bath dirt prior to hopping in my lap. Second time this week I got a dust bath I didn't need!

 

[PolarBerry]

Checked a little bit ago and nothing... checked just now at 11pm (past my bedtime) and 7 are pipping externally! No unzipping yet but humidity and temps are stable. Might wake up to some poults! Probably start seeing some tomorrow and the next day.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

The broody pile is doing a good job I checked on them this morning while I was feeding everyone. I couldn't find the one at first but it was under Pebbles whole the other one was under Princess. Mary is acting as the Nanny I guess... She's just kinda there lol. Princess made some strange noises at me but nobody made any attempt to attack. Hopefully, the three of them together will do a good raising the babies

 

[memphis]

Love it! Sounds like the girls are sharing duties. Bet they are happy to have babies to fuss over.

 

[PolarBerry]

9 hours in since first pips and no hatchers yet... have heard a few eggs move though and humidity is staying around 83-85%. Hopefully they’re busy chiseling away inside the shells!