A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[duluthralphie]

Thanks! I'm glad someone from my neighborhood was able to help. I don't know how big he is, but he would be hard for me to handle!

It is very possible you will have fertile eggs from the dearly departed Tom when they do start laying..(if it is not too far out)

 

[holm25]

the midget white turkey and royal palm with toms being 15-20 pound mature and hen being about 10 pounds

My first year with Turkeys I finished two spring hatch Royal Palm toms and they were 12 and 13 pounds so I think the RPs are a little bigger than that? But then again they were Mr. Ts brother so they may have been mutts that looked like pure RPs...

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Anne...the girls will soon start to think about laying. I think mine started mid January last year. So the sooner he leaves the better. In my opinion.
Back in Memphis! Whew! It's above freezing!

Wow, that would be nice if I got some tukey eggs soon. I don't know if the girls are old enough, however. What is the average laying time for turkeys?

It is very possible you will have fertile eggs from the dearly departed Tom when they do start laying..(if it is not too far out)

I don't think the poor guys has been getting any action. I saw him trying a couple weeks ago and I interrupted him.

 

[R2elk]

Wow, that would be nice if I got some tukey eggs soon. I don't know if the girls are old enough, however. What is the average laying time for turkeys?



I don't think the poor guys has been getting any action. I saw him trying a couple weeks ago and I interrupted him.

Normal first laying season is the spring following the year the turkeys were hatched.

Just because you don't see a turkey breeding does not mean it isn't happening. Oftentimes the only sign is a bunch of turkey feathers laying on the ground in a particular area when it isn't molting season.

 

[bluebird]

Gotta love turkeys

 

[holm25]

Normal first laying season is the spring following the year the turkeys were hatched.

Just because you don't see a turkey breeding does not mean it isn't happening. Oftentimes the only sign is a bunch of turkey feathers laying on the ground in a particular area when it isn't molting season.

Mine are weird turkeys. If I am sitting out in the run they will walk up to me and start mating... Creeps

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

Normal first laying season is the spring following the year the turkeys were hatched.

Just because you don't see a turkey breeding does not mean it isn't happening. Oftentimes the only sign is a bunch of turkey feathers laying on the ground in a particular area when it isn't molting season.

That's true. I haven't seen too many extra feathers, but you just never know!

Mine are weird turkeys. If I am sitting out in the run they will walk up to me and start mating... Creeps

Perverts!

 

[memphis]

Really Holm?? That cracked me up!

I'm ready for more turkey eggs! My chicken sitter & I fight over them...we love 'em!! Of course here in the convent, nothing is fertile. And I had no turkeys go broody last year. Annie thought about it....but I would pick her off the nest & toss her into the yard. She gave it up. My Australorps took their turn being broody. My old Barnvelder has never gone broody. Funny girls....

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

At least your girl went broody in the nest, this was one of my girls last year. Next to the house....

 

[FredsGobblers]

@holm25 I think of mature being 3+ when I read specs and weights being live weight. I could be wrong since I think of wild turkeys I hunt that way. At 3+ their spurs begin to curve and not so straight as a jake or 2 y/o. Sexually mature and physically mature to me are different things. The Black mix I butchered for christmas was only 16# dressed 22# live weight at 2 y/o.