A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[holm25]

If he was shooting at Guineas I could understand it, There were times in the past when I was addicted to Guinea ownership where I thought a shotgun would be the best way to round the little monsters up...

Now on day 6 of being guinea free, I am finding my blood pressure dropping, a certain peace has fallen over the farm. Life is good....


Holm, now that you see how Ethel Jr is, you can see I was not exaggerating about how mean and wild my turkeys can be.. Bedtime is like trying to take an egg from Ethel Jr times 24...

Ralphie I got my birds in a schedule for lock up. Usually around 6:30 I lock them up. Turkeys are the first in as they are such sweet birds and then chickens and then last the juvies. If the turkeys get out of the run though it can be a pain... They walk right by the door about 50 times before they decide to go in.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Since Adam and Queenie have been gone, all of my turkeys easily put themselves to bed at night now. I just have the light on in there for them and true in bed by 8:30-ish. Even on nights when we're late getting home, they're in. I may regret saying this though if I start free ranging then again. Then they'll probably never go in lol

 

[duluthralphie]

So, what's the alternative???? Given that the people with eggs won't ship chicks?

People will and it is legal as long as the shipper is NPIP and has an import permit to your state.

 

[duluthralphie]

Thank you for this info! I meant to ask you about that but never did. I am gonna get pics tonight for you guys. Maybe someone will have a good idea as to what they are.

The bronze looking one is Either a red bronze or a rusty bronze. Hoping for hens Actually I don't know what gender I hope they are... I want hens but would I be doing too much inbreeding? Maybe I will keep hens this year and then stop so I don't have overly inbred birds... I guess we will see what I have for females and then decide...

I am hoping for rusty Slate.

 

[R2elk]

The bronze looking one is Either a red bronze or a rusty bronze.

I saw that @Auroradream26 posted on BYH that she thought it was either a Red Bronze or a Rusty Bronze. To the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing as a Rusty Bronze. The Rr that makes a Rusty Black or a Rusty Slate or a Rusty Lavender is the same set of color genes that cause a Red Bronze. If there was such a thing as a Rusty Bronze, it would just be another name for a Red Bronze.

Bronze poults and Narragansett poults don't too different from each other. I also suspect that some of the off colors such as Semi-Color Semi-Gray whether Bronze or Narragansett have very similar looking poults. On those about the only way to figure out what they are is to grow them out and hope they are a variety that has images posted of them.

 

[Bantambird]

So what is a burbon red crossed with royal Palm? Is that a bronze?

 

[duluthralphie]

So what is a burbon red crossed with royal Palm? Is that a bronze?

LOL it will not let me paste the name..

it is a semi-bronze/semi-grey whatever that is.
here are pics..

 

[R2elk]

So what is a burbon red crossed with royal Palm? Is that a bronze?

LOL it will not let me paste the name..

it is a semi-bronze/semi-grey whatever that is.

That is strange. I just ran the calculator and if you cross a Bourbon Red tom with a Royal Palm hen it shows that the offspring are Red Bronze males split to Black Winged Bronze and split to Narragansett and Red Bronze females split to Black Winged Bronze.

If you cross a Royal Palm tom with a Bourbon Red hen you get Red Bronze males split to Black Winged Bronze and split to Narragansett and Golden Narragansett females split to Black Winged Bronze.

The cross that produces what you show is a Bronze tom crossed with a Royal Palm hen. I am guessing that you forgot to change the RR to rr to get the Bourbon Red.

 

[Bantambird]

Does this mean the babies potentially can produce lots of colors in subsequent generations? That's pretty cool! I did warn people who wanted to buy the not-burbon poults that they were crossbreeds, and let them see the parents.

 

[R2elk]

Does this mean the babies potentially can produce lots of colors in subsequent generations? That's pretty cool! I did warn people who wanted to buy the not-bourbon poults that they were crossbreeds, and let them see the parents.

If as I am assuming the Bourbon Red was the tom and the Royal Palm was the hen, breeding the offspring to each other (not recommended because it is inbreeding) can produce up to 33 different color varieties. The reason for the odd number of varieties is because some of the varieties are sex linked therefore producing hens of one variety and toms of another variety.