A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[OneMountainAcres]

I need to get new pictures of the 3 young bourbon boys (yes, I'm stealing that phrase) that I kept to raise up this year. Thera still about 4 more months till Thanksgiving so, even though Adam is our Thanksgiving feast, 2 of his sons will head to the freezer as well. I have my eye set on one that will probably be the keeper. He's bigger than the others (though they're all almost as big as Romeo already) and has the last amount of red feathers on his tail. They're a nice looking group of boys and have started strutting around more lately.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Someone posted this picture on Facebook and I had to share it lol. I asked permission first of course!

 

[rjohns39]

Someone posted this picture on Facebook and I had to share it lol. I asked permission first of course!

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DW says that one is just a bit much

 

[memphis]

Oh wow! A turkey stroller!! Aurora that's SO cool! Gosh, I could have taken the girls to our 4th parade in that thing!!

 

[rjohns39]

Oh wow! A turkey stroller!! Aurora that's SO cool! Gosh, I could have taken the girls to our 4th parade in that thing!!

You'll need a double stroller...

 

[JRNash]

Yep..... I can see someone making the 6:00 news with that one....... Doc would probably up my medication. Lol

 

[JRNash]

Any ideas on what type of weight gain I can expect over the next 4 to 5 months from the BB's?

 

[rjohns39]

Any ideas on what type of weight gain I can expect over the next 4 to 5 months from the BB's?

R2 or Ralph may know better but this is from one of my other groups:
"...With the Broad Breasted whites you will have approx. 1 lb. of
carcass weight gain for every 3 lbs of feed consumed. At 17 weeks
weeks on straight run BBW turkeys that is 60 lbs of feed consumed per
bird and an avg. live wgt of 20 lbs. or processed wgt of 15.2lbs." Not my quote.

 

[JRNash]

I found it disturbing that the company that bought out the two commercial strains off BBW promptly ELIMINATED one. I guess they never heard the adage Don't put ALL your eggs in one basket.

 

[rjohns39]

I found it disturbing that the company that bought out the two commercial strains off BBW promptly ELIMINATED one. I guess they never heard the adage Don't put ALL your eggs in one basket.

There are others out there--but not easy to find.