A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[R2elk]

Sorry for the poor quality pictures...

These were taken just now (The morning of day 12). Just to make sure I'm counting right I set them on what I'm calling the evening of day 0.

Check out this post to see how you can make your candling light easier to use.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ll-detatched-shipped-eggs/26680#post_13465420

 

[Finnie]

Speaking of candling and lockdown, tonight is supposed to be lockdown for Ralphie's Eggs! If the slowpokes in my hatcher would hurry up and come out of their eggs. That batch was due yesterday, and only one hatched on time. Two more hatched overnight, one this morning, and I have 3 pipping, but not zipping. And two that I think are duds. If the duds haven't pipped by this afternoon, I'm going to start assisting, and kicking these chicks out to the brooder. Cuz the hatcher will need to be cleaned up and gotten ready for the Ralphie Eggs.

 

[duluthralphie]

Speaking of candling and lockdown, tonight is supposed to be lockdown for Ralphie's Eggs! If the slowpokes in my hatcher would hurry up and come out of their eggs. That batch was due yesterday, and only one hatched on time. Two more hatched overnight, one this morning, and I have 3 pipping, but not zipping. And two that I think are duds. If the duds haven't pipped by this afternoon, I'm going to start assisting, and kicking these chicks out to the brooder. Cuz the hatcher will need to be cleaned up and gotten ready for the Ralphie Eggs.

Best of luck on the hatch... Pictures required.

 

[micah wotring]

Check out this post to see how you can make your candling light easier to use.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ll-detatched-shipped-eggs/26680#post_13465420

Thanks!

 

[R2elk]

Since I just have the one Sweetgrass hen and the one Sweetgrass tom and they are not the easiest variety to come by, I have concluded that I need to get some Royal Palm hens.

If you cross a Sweetgrass tom (b1b1 cgcg NN) with a Royal Palm hen (b1b1 cgcg n-) the results are Sweetgrass toms (b1b1 cgcg Nn) that carry the recessive Narragansett gene and pure Sweetgrass hens (b1b1 cgcg N-).

It appears to be a great way to produce more Sweetgrass hens and widen the gene pool. Since I do have a Sweetgrass tom and a Sweetgrass hen I will still be able to produce pure Sweetgrass toms also.

 

[Bantambird]

Since I just have the one Sweetgrass hen and the one Sweetgrass tom and they are not the easiest variety to come by, I have concluded that I need to get some Royal Palm hens.

If you cross a Sweetgrass tom (b1b1 cgcg NN) with a Royal Palm hen (b1b1 cgcg n-) the results are Sweetgrass toms (b1b1 cgcg Nn) that carry the recessive Narragansett gene and pure Sweetgrass hens (b1b1 cgcg N-). 

It appears to be a great way to produce more Sweetgrass hens and widen the gene pool.  Since I do have a Sweetgrass tom and a Sweetgrass hen I will still be able to produce pure Sweetgrass toms also.

And then I could travel to Wyoming and pick up some eggs. Would they be sexlinked turkeys? Visually different?

 

[ScottishKate]

Hi. Quick question again......
Delilah seems to have stopped laying after only starting 16 days ago. She was laying almost every day but it's been 4 days now and I'm wondering if poss the chickens are eating them?
Any info welcome thanks

 

[R2elk]

And then I could travel to Wyoming and pick up some eggs. Would they be sexlinked turkeys? Visually different?

They would not be visually different. If a person did it the other way around and used a Royal Palm tom to breed a Sweetgrass hen, they would be sex linked. The outcome using that method would be all pure Royal Palm hens and Sweetgrass toms carrying the recessive Narragansett gene. They should be sexable at hatch since the Sweetgrass have a dark stripe down their backs while the Royal Palms would be a white/yellowish poult.

 

[desertmarcy]

Since I just have the one Sweetgrass hen and the one Sweetgrass tom and they are not the easiest variety to come by, I have concluded that I need to get some Royal Palm hens.

If you cross a Sweetgrass tom (b1b1 cgcg NN) with a Royal Palm hen (b1b1 cgcg n-) the results are Sweetgrass toms (b1b1 cgcg Nn) that carry the recessive Narragansett gene and pure Sweetgrass hens (b1b1 cgcg N-).

It appears to be a great way to produce more Sweetgrass hens and widen the gene pool. Since I do have a Sweetgrass tom and a Sweetgrass hen I will still be able to produce pure Sweetgrass toms also.

That's a good idea, just don't keep any of those Nn toms. When you get that hidden n in a tom, it can be such a pain: can't tell they have it without test matings.

I have a nice group of Sweetgrass from Porter, 1 tom and 4 hens and another pen has a Red Sweetgrass tom over 2 Fall Fire hens. I will have a few extra Royal Palm hens I could mate with the SG tom once I've finished hatching from them for a project mating I'm doing right now. But I have to thin out some turkeys first because all pens are full at the moment.

 

[Finnie]

I wish I had some Sweetgrass.

But I will content myself with my Blue Red Bronze poults that are split to all the Royal Palm genes. I can put them together next year and make a bazillion and one combinations.
The only problem is, I won't have room to keep a bazillion and one turkeys!