A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[memphis]

Bridget sounds like a good moma! When they gather them under their wings it melts my heart.
Hot, hot hot here. Did go sit out with the girls awhile. Both were in a dust bath. Sat down to catch up on email. Daisy hopped in my lap FULL OF DUST! Blah! The least she could have done was shake it out. She's lucky she's so cute....

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I now have 3 broody turkey girls. Mary has joined with Pebbles and Princess

 

[Bantambird]

That noise is similar to a challenge, if you put a long noise at the end of your trill, like that trill with a wheep noise that ascends at the end. It means you are going to kick their behind.
Like, purrrr-r-r wheep...
My turkeys do that before flogging the dog or chasing my son or my rooster Handsome.

 

[memphis]

Another broody....you've hit the trifecta Aurora!

I just let my dogs out to run. It's already like walking into an oven out there. Planning to hook up sprinklers in the bird yard. That will keep the girls happy for awhile.

Had a rogue Speckled Sussex last night. Put the chickens to bed, the turkeys help, then the girls & I take our evening stroll. Had one SS who refused to coop. So she came with us. The turkeys will spread out on the lawn. Little SS was running between them. Daisy was hunting, Annie was grazing. Wore her out.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Another broody....you've hit the trifecta Aurora!

I just let my dogs out to run. It's already like walking into an oven out there. Planning to hook up sprinklers in the bird yard. That will keep the girls happy for awhile.

Had a rogue Speckled Sussex last night. Put the chickens to bed, the turkeys help, then the girls & I take our evening stroll. Had one SS who refused to coop. So she came with us. The turkeys will spread out on the lawn. Little SS was running between them. Daisy was hunting, Annie was grazing. Wore her out.

Sounds like she wants to be a part of the evening turkey routine! You may have a SS taking walks with you soon lol

 

[memphis]

The chickens go to bed earlier than the turkeys. But the turkeys stay on their roosts later in the morning. So I guess she was up past her bedtime. I could tell the little SS was tired...had to carry her to her coop.
I start running dogs around 4:30 in the morning. The chickens will come out of their coop. All I hear out of the Turkey coop are sleepy sounding little trills.

 

[TurkeyTimes]

R2Elk, I saw a picture you posted of a real breed standard Royal Palm, is that your bird? Do you have more? Where did he come from? I've been searching and searching for true breed standard royal palms, that's the only one I've ever seen in the states if he is in fact your bird.

 

[R2elk]

R2Elk, I saw a picture you posted of a real breed standard Royal Palm, is that your bird? Do you have more? Where did he come from? I've been searching and searching for true breed standard royal palms, that's the only one I've ever seen in the states if he is in fact your bird.

Can you post a link so I can see if it indeed was one of mine?

I got my original Royal Palms from a local feed store that ordered them in from a supplier in Colorado. Sorry I do not know which one it was. My original Royal Palms were not large birds except for one that I got from a neighbor who sourced his locally. That source no longer exists. That Royal Palm hen was substantially bigger than my other hens. The toms that I processed from that group dressed out at 15 lbs. each.

I currently have 2 Royal Palm hens that came from a supplier in New Mexico through McMurrays. They appear to be about the same size as my original Royal Palm hens. I am using them to breed to my Sweetgrass tom in order to produce more Sweetgrass hens which will be pure Sweetgrass because the Royal Palm hens cannot pass their Narragansett gene on to their female offspring. The male poults will be phenotypically Sweetgrass but will be carrying a hidden recessive Narragansett gene they got from their mothers.

To my knowledge there is only the one standard for Royal Palms and the most important part of that standard is that they have only the colors black and white. If they have brown or any other color, they are not Royal Palms.

It has recently come to my attention that there are also some Black Winged Oregon Grays (b1b1 cgc nn or n-) being passed off as Royal Palms (b1b1 cgcg nn or n-) since they carry the hidden recessive white gene. I have not seen any photos of one so cannot say if a person could tell them apart just by looking at them.

 

[TurkeyTimes]

Got some good pictures of little Iris strutting her stuff and being more fabulous than her man! She is too adorable. I love when they are strutting side by side, she is so tiny!

 

[TurkeyTimes]

This picture. Yes the breed standard is only black and white but also calls for banded tail coverts. Nobody that I have seen has royal palms with banded coverts except this bad boy. I've been talking with Kevin about how to try and get back into royal palms.