A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[wolf-hen300]

this is rusty

 

[Finnie]

Thanks all!

Feedman, congrats on the two palms! Is that third one out yet?

I found that this turkey poult was all business. Didn't make me stare at a pip hole all day long. The first pip was around noon, and he was totally hatched by 6:15. From this tom and hen combo I can get male Sweetgrass and female Royal Palm. My guess is he's a Sweetgrass. But then, I don't really know if you can tell the Palms from the Sweetgrass at hatch.

He's not quite dry yet. I think I'll let him stay in the incubator overnight and then move him into the brooder with his chicken mentors tomorrow morning.

Here he is at first:


And after drying off a couple of hours:

 

[feedman77]

Thanks all! Feedman, congrats on the two palms! Is that third one out yet? I found that this turkey poult was all business. Didn't make me stare at a pip hole all day long. The first pip was around noon, and he was totally hatched by 6:15. From this tom and hen combo I can get male Sweetgrass and female Royal Palm. My guess is he's a Sweetgrass. But then, I don't really know if you can tell the Palms from the Sweetgrass at hatch. He's not quite dry yet. I think I'll let him stay in the incubator overnight and then move him into the brooder with his chicken mentors tomorrow morning. Here he is at first: And after drying off a couple of hours:

Congrats. What pairing do you have to get sex linked turkeys. 3rd one is being slow. Not out yet. But was the first one pipped.

 

[feedman77]

If he is a Sweetgrass look for a grey stripe down the middle of his back after he's dry.

 

[R2elk]

Congrats.

What pairing do you have to get sex linked turkeys.

3rd one is being slow. Not out yet. But was the first one pipped.

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

 

[Finnie]

What pairing do you have to get sex linked turkeys.

3rd one is being slow. Not out yet. But was the first one pipped.

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!

 

[toptom]

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

 

[wolf-hen300]

this is copper

 

[wolf-hen300]

stuck behind the silkie brooder.....

 

[wolf-hen300]

Brownie likes to pose for pictures