A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[RetiredRon]

Why are turkey genetics so much different than chicken genetics? A good example I came across was with Porters turkey calculator. If I have a Sweetgrass tomand I mate him to a royal palm hen I get Sweetgrass poults........huh? Hows that possible when only one of the parent stock is sweetgrass? Wouldnt the poults be half sweetgrass and half royal palm......instead of all sweetgrass?

I guess the sweetgrass is a dominant gene? Im totally dumb with the turkeys

 

[duluthralphie]

Bummer Memphis!


Enjoy a night out on the town!



Chaos
did you understand my answer, I think I have it right, it has been over 40 years since I had a college level class on genetics but I think I have it right, recalling a Pundit square.


There is no recessive to worry about, the ngng does not exist in the sweetgrass so it cannot be passed on.

 

[RetiredRon]

If two of those bred, would they have some Royal Palm?

 

[memphis]

Wow Ralph! I'm impressed! Same with my australian shepherds. If both parents don't carry the red gene, even if one is red, they won't produce red puppies.

I have the best Lappers! I swear Daisy would sit on my lap all day if I let her! I have noticed that my chickens are much more dedicated forgers that the turkeys. The turkeys do eat stuff, but mostly would rather hang out.

 

[RetiredRon]

Bummer Memphis!


Enjoy a night out on the town!



Chaos
 did you understand my answer, I think I have it right, it has been over 40 years since I had a college level class on genetics but I think I have it right, recalling a Pundit square.


There is no recessive to worry about, the ngng does not exist in the sweetgrass so it cannot be passed on.

Question answered; -)

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I let my turkeys out to free range a bit today. They were so excited, jumping around and playing they had to relearn to come when I call them though. Only took a second with some corn

 

[copper2]

I thought recessive ngng, was sex-linked, along with ee-brown

 

[memphis]

Aurora, does Adam play too? Everytime mine get let loose they run & flap. If I kick the soccer ball it's game on!

 

[duluthralphie]

Here is my game birds netting, As you can see, I fixed it!

Wire ties are as handy as duct tape as you can see.

It only took me a couple minutes to fix. I did it after 6 hours of plowing snow, wet heavy snow.



As you can see the netting tore and slid down the pole. I simply tied a gob of wire ties and put up a cross member to hold up the netting.


The next two pictures just show the netting going off the supports. They also show the netting fairly well.






The next one is one of my first attempts to keep the netting from sagging. An Owl hit the netting hard and pushed it down and took a guineas head off, so I added the two side poles to keep the netting tauter.



The above shows how I connect the netting to the fence. I run a top and bottom board and I attach netting to the top with a lathe.

Hopefully that answers whomever asked about the netting earlier today, I have a short memory..

 

[RetiredRon]

Memphis-
Did you see the post THV... CBS in Little Rock posted on Facebook? Im thinking our weather is close to the same... it seems they cut persimmon fruit from the trees, split it and it said snow for us this winter and lots of it...