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My slate tri jake is definitely going to be the boss come spring. And I need to figure out what to do with Ablyn. He's so hard on the hens, he's a major dope when it comes to breeding. He's more interested in breeding footwear than turkey hens! And he's still aggressive towards my son and I don't want the jakes to pick up on it. Should I just sell him? I can't bring myself to eat him because he's such a lovey cuddle bug, but he's pretty useless and there's three jakes that I wanna keep.
Also, we caught a monster skunk yesterday in the live trap. DH was really proud of himself for killing it in one shot because skunks are pretty tough and he situated himself as far away from the skunks range as he could, set up like 30 feet and pegged that monster beast in the noggin.
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It had already eaten a chicken or two...
 
Bantambird said:
I need to figure out what to do with Ablyn. He's so hard on the hens, he's a major dope when it comes to breeding. He's more interested in breeding footwear than turkey hens! And he's still aggressive towards my son and I don't want the jakes to pick up on it. Should I just sell him?
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Use any method available to get him out of your breeding pool. Sell, trade or even give him away since you can't cull him. My preference would be to cull him and then you could give the carcass away for someone else to eat. He is also definitely a carrier of the late developing tom genes and should not be put into anyone's breeding pool. The sooner you deal with him the better.
 
R2elk said:
Tri-Color Mottled Slates and Tri-Color Mottled Blacks are easy for me to make as long as I have a Blue Slate hen and a Sweetgrass tom. Tri-Color Mottled Slates and Tri-Color Mottled Blacks are also easy for Ralphie to make by breeding a Blue Slate tom to a Royal Palm hen. If he goes the other way and uses a Royal Palm tom over a Blue Slate hen, he will get sex linked offspring. The female offspring will be either Mottled Slates or Mottled Blacks and the male offspring will be Tri-Color Mottled Slates or Tri-Color Mottled Blacks.
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I did not know this... remind me in a few months..
There could be a market for sexed turkeys.
 
duluthralphie said:
I did not know this... remind me in a few months..
There could be a market for sexed turkeys.
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Unfortunately you have to wait until they grow their adult feathers to be able to sex them. The Mottleds will all be hens and the Tri-Color Mottleds will all be toms.

Using a Royal Palm tom over other variety hens will make sex linked offspring. It depends on the other variety hen used whether or not the poults will have enough color difference to tell at hatch.
 
R2elk said:
Using a Royal Palm tom over other variety hens will make sex linked offspring. It depends on the other variety hen used whether or not the poults will have enough color difference to tell at hatch.
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This is awesome info! I have two RP toms, was going to put them over 1) blue slate, bourbon red, and RP, and 2) red bronze and oregon gray. I can't wait to hatch some and see what the babies look like.
 

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