A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[KF0002]

I'm not sure my Royal Palm Tom had canker after all. We caught him after that and looked and didn't see any yellow canker lesions in his mouth or throat. No odor in his mouth. He hasn't had any mucous in his mouth since that one day I noticed it. He eats fine and is gaining weight. I think I'm just paranoid and half expecting everything I own to drop dead or get eaten because that's been my luck lately.

To update though on my poults, everything is doing well. My Narragansett jake fell ill more recently and I medicated him for blackhead and he has bounced back and is strutting and normal again. I haven't lost any more to blackhead since the initial 2. I lost 2 Royal Palm poults I hatched from a friends eggs, both hatched at different times but neither made it past a week. They seem to be a tender variety when young. My turkey count hovers at 16.

 

[KF0002]

I have 1 white leghorn and she is a smart little brat. I can't imagine anything being able to catch her nutty butt! She's always the one in the garage, getting in to things or sneaking in to the turkey coop to lay her egg. She knows every secret passage and opening in the fence. She's also my suspected egg eater but she never eats her own (probably since she never lays it in the actual chicken coop) but I can't bring myself to make her into soup.

Our leghorns were flighty like our Games but all of them were fairly easy for us to catch. We are NPIP tested every 6 months and they were pros at being handled for all the swabbing and blood draws. They were highly food motivated like most poultry. Lol

 

[R2elk]

White Leghorns are my husband's favorite layers. We had 6 and now have none. They are the varmints favorite food apparently where I live. I guess the white makes them stand out and easier to see. I also lost a large portion of my White Legbars that were free ranging, leaving me only 4 hens. And they all roosted high up in the trees with the Game hens. It was unfortunate. We have been trapping hoping to knock the numbers down of whatever is taking my chickens. I still have a lot of chickens, but I don't want to lose any more.

I've never lost a white bird to a predator here. I have lost dark colored birds to them.

 

[R2elk]

I'm not sure my Royal Palm Tom had canker after all. We caught him after that and looked and didn't see any yellow canker lesions in his mouth or throat. No odor in his mouth. He hasn't had any mucous in his mouth since that one day I noticed it. He eats fine and is gaining weight. I think I'm just paranoid and half expecting everything I own to drop dead or get eaten because that's been my luck lately.

To update though on my poults, everything is doing well. My Narragansett jake fell ill more recently and I medicated him for blackhead and he has bounced back and is strutting and normal again. I haven't lost any more to blackhead since the initial 2. I lost 2 Royal Palm poults I hatched from a friends eggs, both hatched at different times but neither made it past a week. They seem to be a tender variety when young. My turkey count hovers at 16.

I haven't seen any indication that Royal Palms are any less hardy than any other turkeys. The last Royal Palms I got came with an extra one when shipped as day old poults. All 16 survived and did well while in my possession.

 

[KF0002]

I haven't seen any indication that Royal Palms are any less hardy than any other turkeys. The last Royal Palms I got came with an extra one when shipped as day old poults. All 16 survived and did well while in my possession.

Maybe its just bad luck on my part. I've done everything in my power to raise them and have lost 2 out of 3 Royal Palms from the same parent stock. Luckily the 6 week old Ive managed to raise is looking to be a jenny. I've not lost any other poults while in the indoor brooders. Only once they got outside to blackhead.

 

[Molpet]

Maybe its just bad luck on my part. I've done everything in my power to raise them and have lost 2 out of 3 Royal Palms from the same parent stock. Luckily the 6 week old Ive managed to raise is looking to be a jenny. I've not lost any other poults while in the indoor brooders. Only once they got outside to blackhead.

Maybe the parent stock is too inbred or something

 

[KF0002]

If a bird is feathered like a Royal palm or blue palm in color but is getting light tan feathers in it's tail, would you call that a sweetgrass or a tri colored palm? All my birds came from Fall Fire and Sweetgrass parents, but I realize that males can throw palm offspring if they are carrying Narragansett. Even if mated to a sweetgrass or Fall Fire.

 Would it be safe to just assume they are tri colored palms? And safe to just assume my males carry Narragansett so I'm not surprised. I can work on breeding it out if they do carry the recessive gene.

 

[KF0002]

Maybe the parent stock is too inbred or something

The parents are hatchery stock. Would that make a difference? We've had good luck out of birds from the hatchery before.

 

[R2elk]

The parents are hatchery stock. Would that make a difference? We've had good luck out of birds from the hatchery before.

Depends which hatchery. Most of the hatcheries selling poults contract them out from various breeders.

 

[KF0002]

Depends which hatchery. Most of the hatcheries selling poults contract them out from various breeders.

She got them from Murray McMurray.