Turkeys need more room than that to properly get down from a 6' roost. Your pen can be fairly narrow but I would not make it any shorter than 40' long. I have watched my turkeys use as much as 70" to fly down from a 6' roost. The more distance they have to land, the easier it can be on their feet.
Both Semi-penciled and Penciled Sweetgrass exist.
That looks to me like not quite enough tom security..,
Alright ty! I'll keep an eye on how she develops. Either way I really like how her pattern is turning out, super colorful compared to her siblings. The only reason I got the idea behind her being penciled is I saw another one the breeder was selling at a swap that she said was penciled and looked basically exactly like my kid, haha.
Not necessarily. I get poults that have a lot of speckling in their tail and wing feathers. I do not add them to my breeding group.
Many backyard breeders claim things about their turkeys that are not true. Check out all the false claims on eBay. I have seen hatching eggs from Tri-colors being proudly sold as Royal palms. I saw Narragansett hatching eggs being sold as BBB eggs. Of course the real winner was the guy sell hatching eggs from "Patriot Turkeys". Among the pics of the turkeys were some Blue Red Bronze, Rusty Slates and Red Slates.
