A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[Brandychick]

here's a good shot of them lurking outside my coffee window that I crack to chit chat with them durring the day.

 

[Lozuufy]

I am in NC. I've learned since that Sweetgrass are hard to find here. Never saw one while I was looking for my tom, accidentally bought one, and haven't seen one since. I've looked several places. If I find a hen though, I'm snatching her up! I'm downsizing on mchickens and am hoping to go a bit into turkeys :-D
Sorry about Cleo!

Sweetgrass have the same genotype as Royal palms except RPs have 2 (recessive) narragansett genes also (which gives them the white), so crossing a sweetgrass with a RP all the babies would look like sweetgrass but the sons would be split to the narragansett so some of their daughters (if bred to a sweetgrass) would be RP.

Sorry if this is confusing

, but to simplify if you get RP hens for him the babies would look like Sweetgrass.

 

[MadamPoofyBrow]

Sweetgrass have the same genotype as Royal palms except RPs have 2 (recessive) narragansett genes also (which gives them the white), so crossing a sweetgrass with a RP all the babies would look like sweetgrass but the sons would be split to the narragansett so some of their daughters (if bred to a sweetgrass) would be RP.

Sorry if this is confusing

, but to simplify if you get RP hens for him the babies would look like Sweetgrass.

Oh, okay! Thanks! RP are pretty easy to find around here, and I really like them (Which is why I was getting the RP tom who ended up as a sweetgrass

lol) I might just do that if I find some nice young hens

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Whew! Adam has his game on today! It's beautiful and sunny out, my car isn't working, and I'm not going anywhere so I let the turkeys out to free range. One of my youngest Bourbon red hens laid down for him and Pebbles did too (and that's all that I actually was around to witness). These girls can start laying for me any day now lol. I'll be digging the incubator out in about a week

 

[Chaos18]

Sex-linked turkeys. I now know how to make them.

Take a pure Royal Palm tom and put it over a pure Sweetgrass hen. All of the girls will be RP and all of the boys will be Sweetgrass (split: Narragansett).

 

[memphis]

Aurora ...no way the girls can resist Adam. He's so handsome. But it is saying something that Pebbles has fallen for him too! What a guy! Is he still up for a quick snuggle before bed?

Brandy...why do you have to get rid of George too? He's beautiful and not a Belly Button? ?

 

[memphis]

Chaos ...I'm learning a ton about turkey genetics too! It's way cool. So does this mean you will be adding another tom & breeding pen?

 

[Chaos18]

Chaos ...I'm learning a ton about turkey genetics too! It's way cool. So does this mean you will be adding another tom & breeding pen?

STOP HELPING ME!!!!!!!!

 

[Lozuufy]

Auburn tom and bronze hen also creates a sex-linked cross, auburn daughters and bronze (split auburn) sons. It seems a little easier to tell male from female at hatch. Also chocolate toms over black hens makes a sex-linked cross. You should get an Auburn or Chocolate tom too

, plus they are really pretty....

 

[memphis]

I agree, Auburn & Chocolates are beautiful. How 'bout it Chaos?