A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[duluthralphie]

it was kind of sleeting, and even with that he could not just walk inside..duh

 

[duluthralphie]

Quiet morning here... I need posts during my coffee time!!

 

[Chaos18]

POSTS!!!!














































POSTS!!!!

 

[Chaos18]

Happy now?

 

[duluthralphie]

Nope, I am a fast reader, only took me a little over two minutes to read each post.

So those 6 minutes did not help much..

I am way better at math than reading..

 

[memphis]

Ug...sleet...

So Ralph...do you have all your breeding pen complete now? When are you separating them into pairs/trios /quads.

Maybe Dheltzel will post pics of those mottled....hoping!

 

[memphis]

So I guess I should come up a plan on how to deal with broody turkey hens. Maybe they will skip going broody....or am I deluding myself?

 

[Chaos18]

You're delusional regardless of your turkeys behavior

 

[Chaos18]

Nope, I am a fast reader, only took me a little over two minutes to read each post.

So those 6 minutes did not help much..

I am way better at math than reading..

dang it, took me longer than that to type them out and spell check

 

[dheltzel]

OK Dheltzel....your not off the hook! Take pictures of those baby poults! Your holding out on us! Would love to see pics of your mottled turkeys. Ralph posted several of his toms on Porters genetic Facebook page and he identified some of the more unusual colors. He might be able to confirm if it's a silver dappled mottled.

Pic of the possible mother and/or grantmothers, these are clearly mottled blacks.

These are some of what I got crossing the 3 above with a royal palm tom:





The phenotype looks silver dappled, but I can't figure out how they got a white gene, that is partially dominant over the grey (cg) and should have showed in either the mottled black hens or royal palm tom they had as parents. Some of their siblings are clearly pure black mottled and royal palm, the expected results from the cross.