A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[muddy75]

my BB’s are 5-6 weeks old now and mr muddy has witnessed fighting starting and said one is gobbling already!! i’ve not seen any strutting or anything.

 

[Huntmaster]

my BB’s are 5-6 weeks old now and mr muddy has witnessed fighting starting and said one is gobbling already!! i’ve not seen any strutting or anything.

I love hearing the young birds starting to gobble. So high pithed and awkward sounding. I have about 40 poults right now from 4 to 12 or 13 weeks old and hearing as many as 15 gobbling all together. Or should I say some trying to gobble. Such a sight to see and hear. So cute watching young birds strutting thinking they are all that.

 

[muddy75]

I love hearing the young birds starting to gobble. So high pithed and awkward sounding. I have about 40 poults right now from 4 to 12 or 13 weeks old and hearing as many as 15 gobbling all together. Or should I say some trying to gobble. Such a sight to see and hear. So cute watching young birds strutting thinking they are all that.

i’ve got to finish processing meaties and get the other run cleaned out, repaired and get them moved over before they start causing trouble with the other residents

 

[Devils Flower]

I don't know how to tag/mention some one but I know you will know I'm talking to you because you told me about this.
I see what you said the other day on a different thread to me about the male and female snood. I really never noticed it until you mentioned it. There is a big difference in the girth at the base of the snood between the too sexs. I don't know why I never noticed that before.

 

[Huntmaster]

I don't know how to tag/mention some one but I know you will know I'm talking to you because you told me about this.
I see what you said the other day on a different thread to me about the male and female snood. I really never noticed it until you mentioned it. There is a big difference in the girth at the base of the snood between the too sexs. I don't know why I never noticed that before.

Just use @ sign before name of who you are trying tag. Like @Devils Flower It will send them a alert

 

[R2elk]

I don't know how to tag/mention some one but I know you will know I'm talking to you because you told me about this.
I see what you said the other day on a different thread to me about the male and female snood. I really never noticed it until you mentioned it. There is a big difference in the girth at the base of the snood between the too sexs. I don't know why I never noticed that before.

It was @daynedoe

Tom's can contract their snoods into a cone shape but most hens can only retract into the J shapes. I have had one hen that could retract her snood into a cone shape.

 

[yesterDAYNE]

Oh yeah no problem! I like to draw a lot so I spend a lot of time referencing unique anatomy on my birds probably more then a sane person would. Also because I get tired of the generic Thanksgiving turkey art where people draw them with entirely feathered heads and snoods coming out of their chins. Those are their most defining features!

 

[Amer]

Oh yeah no problem! I like to draw a lot so I spend a lot of time referencing unique anatomy on my birds probably more then a sane person would. Also because I get tired of the generic Thanksgiving turkey art where people draw them with entirely feathered heads and snoods coming out of their chins. Those are their most defining features!

I want to see some of your art! See, here is mine
I made a lot for a turkey role play.

 

[Devils Flower]

I'm so lucky. I should say I get luckier and luckier. Not just because my first time with turkeys is going so great but it's also because one of my females will be a bearded hen. was messing with my turkeys this morning and I noticed one of my females has a beard just under her feathers.

 

[Devils Flower]

New trial with my turkeys and roosters. My Bramha rooster and my two Tom's are starting to fight. I just stood there and watched to make sure the turkeys don't kill my rooster. Obviously it's two against one. I got scared and picked up my rooster to get it to stop but he wasn't having any of that. As soon as I put him back down on the ground he went after the turkeys again. So the watching continued. The turkeys hit the rooster a few times with there wings and tried to use a bit feet action but they used there wings more then anything. My rooster was not impressed with there ninja skills. So he showed the two turkeys what a real ninja looks like. It was amazing. The rooster knocked both of them on there feathery butts and the turkeys came running to me to protect them. was funny in away. Anyway the turkeys backed down and now know not to mess with Roscoe the rooster. Thor and Odin the turkeys are giving Roscoe his dew respect .