A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[casportpony]

https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/midget_white_turkey_1.html
https://www.meyerhatchery.com/produ...A5WSessionId=acdfc93da7194fc28aac9384c79ba672

maybe someone should tell them? Pet peeve of mine is hatcheries doing this sort of thing. They do the same with peafowl.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Do you know what yours is a cross of?

Beautiful birds!



I have not checked the calculator for a while. I am going on the surprise me method..


Also on the surprise me method........I kept 3 young turkeys back, beautiful red bronze birds, they just shimmer in the sun. from the Waverly sale..

I was sure I had 2 hens and a Tom. Yesterday I looked at two of them and thought Hmmmmm the tails are getting long the snoods are looking kind of boyish and the Birds are huge... So being an astute Turkey person I said to myself,,,,, "(river water over an artificial wall) I have 2 toms, I should have taken one to Waverly,".

Then to console myself I said to myself " At least I have one hen"...

I them looked for the other hen, she was lying about 20 feet away in the sand playing with her snood that was hanging about a inch below her beak......

Some days life vacuums.

This is his daddy...

 

[memphis]

Not a fan of anything miniaturized. A hold over of mine from the dog world. That said...even tho I like my birds BIG, the little turkeys are cute.

 

[Flashpoint]

Not a fan of anything miniaturized. A hold over of mine from the dog world. That said...even tho I like my birds BIG, the little turkeys are cute.

Regardless of the reasons for small families with a one meal turkey deal.....

!! HOUSE TURKEYS!!

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[casportpony]

This is his daddy...

 

[casportpony]

Not a fan of anything miniaturized. A hold over of mine from the dog world. That said...even tho I like my birds BIG, the little turkeys are cute.

I don't know why, but you just made me think of that song "Baby Got Back".

 

[Flashpoint]

This is his daddy...

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Beautiful, Ravenscroft.

He's so "stately" looking! (plus he has all his feathers - mine do not lol)

 

[rjohns39]

Beautiful, Ravenscroft.

He's so "stately" looking! (plus he has all his feathers - mine do not lol)

X3

 

[Ravynscroft]

I don't know why, but you just made me think of that song "Baby Got Back".

And I cannot lie!

Beautiful, Ravenscroft.

He's so "stately" looking! (plus he has all his feathers - mine do not lol)

Thanks... daddy isn't mine... got 2 sons of his though... one went to new home, was supposed to be dinner as they already had 2 toms... they fell in love with him and the other 2 are dinner now, lol...

Brother looks crappy right now, his feathers were ragged so *Somebody* thought it was a good idea to give him a feather cut...

 

[Flashpoint]

@rjohns39 @duluthralphie @R2elk and anyone else who may have an opinion.

I picked up my non-gmo chicken feed today and had a chance to talk to Josh. Asked him about whether he was going to make any "all flock" feed and told him about not wanting to use his Turkey feed as a sole food choice as I am not interested in fattening up anyone. I've been mixing it with the 3 grain scratch to cut down the 24% protein to approx 14%.

He told me the best idea would be to buy his broiler feed @19% and cut it with a bag of 3 grain scratch, giving me a protein percentage of approx 15%.

Trying to figure which way to jump once winter gets here and they won't have much "free range" to forage on.

What do you guys think?