A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[dheltzel]

Quiet here today...where is everyone?

Going to work, shoveling snow away from the coops, pulling newly hatched poults from the hatcher. Got 16 live poults from 19 eggs that went into lockdown. Odd colors on some of them. I will get some pics to post later.

 

[duluthralphie]

Going to work, shoveling snow away from the coops, pulling newly hatched poults from the hatcher. Got 16 live poults from 19 eggs that went into lockdown. Odd colors on some of them. I will get some pics to post later.

Who or what was the parents?

Did you run a calculator on them?

 

[memphis]

Yea...Dheltzel...tell us more about your turkeys! What breeds, how many.....etc.

 

[memphis]

Ralph...are you putting any other hens with JJ or just Ethel? I still think you need to find him a cute Bourbon Red....

 

[memphis]

Ralph...what up with the "sneaky underhanded woman"?

In the south, we call that a Three Handed Woman....right handed, left handed, and underhanded.

 

[dheltzel]

Who or what was the parents?

Did you run a calculator on them?

I have a pen of Mottled Blacks and Royal Palms. I think some of the MB's are mottled silver dappled (one copy of white gene - 'c', instead of homozygous for grey - 'cg').

Porter's site seems to be down right now and I don't know the URL of the calculator without going through his site. The poults are lighter than I remember the MB poults being, so I think they might be:

Bb1 cc nn
-- or --
BB cc nn

I'm not sure what the phenotype for those would look like.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I was cleaning of poop boards today and cleaning out the big garage brooder. As much as I love the silkies mothering the poults, there were too many in that brooder so I moved the biggest babies outside. Hopefully they stay warm enough. There's only 5 of them out there and it's a big brooder but I threw a blanket over half the top of it to try to trap some warmth in there.

So my hatch was a total success! 14 eggs went into lockdown. One was a suspected quitter then but u left it in. It was. Looked like a week or two ago it stopped. All 13 of the others hatched all on their own. Looks like 5 Bourbon reds and 8 red bronze. 2 or 3 of the Bourbon reds are very very blonde. And guess what! I got my nice camera working! So once I get the kids tucked in and my next eggs on lockdown, I'll try to get some good pictures up

 

[duluthralphie]

I might have goofed up, I thought this was 2 girls, the people I sold them to think it might be two boys. if it is I will get them a hen, but I feel bad about being wrong,,as I said on the surviving thread...


What do you think?



This is the picture the texted to me..







And just cause he is so cute he is a little guy I was playing with..

 

[OneMountainAcres]

They look like ladies to me

 

[duluthralphie]

They look like ladies to me

Whew,, I called the one "Pat"... cause I could not tell, but the other 2 I was sure where girls.....Thanks

BTW I gave them the Pat for free.