Bearded Jennys?

[GlitterKitty]

I know this is off topic.. But what are jennys and jakes? Also a tom is an adult male?

 

[ivan3]

Well, here is our neighbor's bearded hen. She has been braving the ten acres of woods that separate her from her main squeeze, i.e., our Slate tom, for the past four days (shows up in the morning and leaves about two hours before sundown). She is their sole surviving turk (their BR hen was spooked out of the Osage Orange tree in their run, three weeks ago, by a raccoon. then chased down and torn apart - if you like I'll post the photos - had to loan them one of our traps).

Our slate hen is beardless.

Apparently, the record number of distinct, individual, beards, in both toms and hens is 5.

A.W. Schorger (a true turkey adept - a guru, not a `swami') got downright bristly, on the subject of mesofiloplumage, in his paper The Beard Of The Wild Turkey: http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v074n04/p0441-p0446.pdf

It is interesting to note that our British cousins refer to toms as stags. If one wasn't attending to such details, one might discover one's understanding isn't all it's `racked' up to be...

What a `stag' might look like.......

Coretta wrote: I know this is off topic.. But what are jennys and jakes? Also a tom is an adult male?

Up to 6mo.: poult. 6mo. to a year: female-jenny, male-jake/jack. 1yr.+: female-hen, male-tom/stag (and if you do a bit of searching you'll find more conventions used in other places at different times). Both sexes, here, prefer not to be called dinner.​

 

[sandspoultry]

Quote:
Check post #13 on this topic.

Sharon

 

[KOTurkeyRanch]

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Up to 6mo.: poult. 6mo. to a year: female-jenny, male-jake/jack. 1yr.+: female-hen, male-tom/stag (and if you do a bit of searching you'll find more conventions used in other places at different times). Both sexes, here, prefer not to be called dinner.

Umm why does the Tom to the right have antlers? HAHAH

 

[Struttn1]

Both of my Royal Palm hens have beards. one is 1 yr old and 1 is 2 yrs old. The Bourbon hen I sold last year was bearded but she was 4 or 5 years old.

 

[ivan3]

KOTurkeyRanch wrote: Umm why does the Tom to the right have antlers?

A chimerical attempt at chimeric humor.​

 

[Struttn1]

I've heard about the jackolope but by golly this is the first I have ever heard of the tomolope.

 

[KOTurkeyRanch]