BR Turkey Gender help

[Shifty Joe]

This fine boy/girl is my first bourbon red turkey and is now about 2 1/2 months old. Any thoughts about what T's gender might be? Extra bonus points if you can help me win my bet with the wife about it being a Tom.

 

[FarmerGilland]

by looking at the snood it appears to be a tom

 

[chickenlover54]

No, I believe its a hen(I always take the womens side)

No, it would have caruncles by now

 

[ColbyNTX]

Looks like a young tom!

 

[A.T. Hagan]

He'll be a fine looking tom when he finishes growing out.

 

[chickenlover54]

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I must be really bad at sexing turkeys, mine are 2 weeks younger than the OPs and my males have caruncles on the bottom of there necks already

 

[Shifty Joe]

You guys are awesome!!! (don't feel bad, wife isn't wrong often) "T" is a regular mood ring and can get a bit red in the face.

Thanks all.

 

[Lagerdogger]

For some reason. I think BRs and RPs are take the longest to figure out. The narragansetts and the bronze toms almost always seem to get nice caruncles and a big snood and larger feet and grow faster than the hens. The bourbon reds and the palms just don't seem to show all the characteristics as soon as the others. My first batch this year is about 12 weeks old, and I am very confident in all the birds except the bourbon reds, where I think I have two toms, one hen, and one unknown. The two new royal palms I have left I think are a tom and a hen, but that judgement is only based on color. Snoods, necks, and feet look similar still.

I would also lean towards tom, but I think this one has the potential to fool us. Last year I was sure I had three BR toms, and two ended up being hens!

 

[mitchell3006]

I have to place my bet on tom. BR's are the worst to figure out. I have a brood pen full and still can't make up my mind ( such as it is). I fing that comparing the leg size to the other poults gives me a better guess than anything. The snood definitely looks like a fine young tom though. Let us know what it ends up.

Mark

 

[mochicken]

I have 3 bronze babies that are still undecided for sure but of the three two of them grew faster, have bigger feet, have taller snoods, started losing their neck and head feathers first, and decided they want to strut around all the time. Those things help you figure out but the only definitive way to tell is to wait it out just a little bit longer.