A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[feedman77]

A Royal Palm tom over a Sweetgrass hen will produce Royal Palm hens and Sweetgrass toms.

Thanks.

The Narragansett gene is sex-linked recessive.  From what I have been able to learn, a Royal Palm is a Sweetgrass with Narragansett added.  So my tom, being a Royal Palm, will have all Narri daughters, and all sons being split to Narri but not visual for it. 

So with the Sweetgrass hen, all the chicks will have all the Sweetgrass genes from both parents, but only the girls will show the Narri, turning them into Royal Palms.  The boys will be split for the Narri, so they will look like Sweetgrass, but could make Royal Palm children with the right mate, (just not 100%).

The sex-linked recessive genes work differently than the sex-linked dominant genes.  I think chicken people are most familiar with the dominant kind.

Any pairing of a Narri male with a non-Narri female will give you sex linked poults, assuming none of the other genes the parents are carrying will hide your ability to see or not see the Narri.

Aww, I typed all this and R2elk beat me to it with a more condensed version! 

Thanks.

 

[feedman77]

Ebay bator doing great on temp.

3rd poult in hatcher was stuck. Had some membrane glued to its head. Got it loose and he popped out lika a " jack in the box". He's drying out now.

Pics will be coming.

Wolf hen: copper, rusty, cookie and brownie nice looking birds.

Memphis: tried tell escapees what they did was wrong. They just didn't understand. I have a feeling belly buttons in the works already.

My dreaded (100+ hr) week that rolls around once a year at work starts Sunday morning.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

A Royal Palm tom over a Sweetgrass hen will produce Royal Palm hens and Sweetgrass toms.

That's is very useful information! If my little Prince is a tom, I may have to find a sweetgrass hen too lol

Feedman-belly buttons at such a young age! You're in for it later! I hope your 100 hour week goes smooth and quick.

 

[Finnie]

What breed of turkey is the biggest and tallest? One that will scare visitors?

What kind of visitors are you wanting to scare? Human or avian?

I think my turkeys do a pretty good job of causing hawks to look elsewhere. I see quite a few hawks around here, and they seem to just fly by or sit on a tree or fence for a few minutes and then leave. When they sit on our four foot fence, the turkeys will start to advance towards them and the hawks don't stick around long enough for the turkey to reach the fence.

Females are better for this than males, so you don't need a large turkey for it. My females will spot a hawk when it is just a distant speck, and they make a special hawk trill noise that I have learned to recognize. Nothing escapes their notice. On the other hand, I've had my male for two months now, and I've never seen him alert to anything. When I hear the alert call now, I'll see the girls with their eyes on the sky, and Coconut will just be strutting around completely oblivious.

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[duluthralphie]

What breed of turkey is the biggest and tallest? One that will scare visitors?

Any friendly Tom will do this. Non-Turkey people are scared poopless when a Tom comes running to greet them. Their alien language for "I love you" will make them turn tail and run.

 

[Thespoiledchicken]

Any friendly Tom will do this. Non-Turkey people are scared poopless when a Tom comes running to greet them. Their alien language for "I love you" will make them turn tail and run.

This is so true! My kids' school bus driver actually called the police the first time she saw my tom come running to greet my kids coming off the bus

she thought the tom was attacking and was shocked to see my 5 year old bend down and give him a big hug.

On a side note the officer was pretty cool about it and jokingly called for backup when he saw I had chickens too

 

[memphis]

My girls are intimidating to anyone not familiar with them. The joke is I won't get robbed with them perched on my back porch rail. And of course they bark at anyone they don't know. And boy can they spot a hawk a mile off!

Such cute babies Wolf-Hen!

Feedman....sorry about the 100 hours work week....never heard of anything like that! What the heck? Did you put a lid on the bellybuttons?

 

[holm25]

Well I have 15 Mr. T eggs in the incubator. Hopefully we get some babies.

 

[gander007]

What breed of turkey is the biggest and tallest? One that will scare visitors?

The Ostrich is about the largest of the Turkey breeds I know of and should intimidate most visitors

I just had to

Enjoy your day

 

[Finnie]

Here are pictures of my poult. He's 18 hours old now. He's got some serious bed-head. It just dried that way. This morning I tried to wash the dried slime off with a hot wash cloth, and it helped a little bit. Then I had to leave him in the incubator longer so he could dry off again.

He seems to have a dark stripe down his back, but it also seems like he has more dark spots than just a stripe. I did not meet his mother until she was two weeks old and had some feathers in. So I can't compare him to how she looked yet.