Can anyone help Identify some four day old Turkeys?

[JourneymanSun]

I am the new father to a barnyard combination. Eight Ducks and Seven Turkeys and two geese. Here are the Turkeys looks to be two types.I'll post the Ducks and Geese in the proper forum.
I'm not sure at this young of an age if anyone could help me with what types I have.




I'm a true green horn when it comes to this flock business. Any help is greatly appreciated.
John

 

[ColbyNTX]

The black ones will be all black like a Spanish black. Not sure what the yellow will be other than a white turkey. There are many different white turkeys. Did you hatch these eggs or did you buy poults? If you bought them, they are most likely broad breasted whites. If they are you will see them just blow past your blacks and will be ready to eat at 4-6 months.

 

[JourneymanSun]

I purchased a barnyard combo form a hatchery in Webster City,Ia. Two Geese,Eight Ducks and Seven Turkeys. So your money is on Spanish Blacks and BBW. Thanks

 

[SigningChickens]

The yellow looks like my royal palms.

 

[retlaw]

I think they are Blue Slates.
Blue slates come in all black, all grey/blue, or splash (grey with black flecks/spots)

 

[Arielle]

I thought the grey might be a blue slate, the white could be a sweetgrass or calico, white holland or midget white or beltsville; the dark with wh face looks like possibly chocolates.

What did the hatchery offer as possible choices?

You can also look at porters turkeys for ideas: they very kindly post pics from newly hatched poults, to juveniles to adults ( hens and toms) Porterturkeys.com as I remember.

If the whites are BBW they will grow much faster and bigger than the heritage birds, and by several months old may need their own pen.

 

[ColbyNTX]

I know everybody is guessing without more to go on but the BLACK ones are Blacks. Slates poults are a light grey. Sweetgrass are yellow with a black skunk stripe down their back. Chocolate poults are brown. Royal Palm poults are all yellow at hatch and all the white colors too. The thing that has me thinking BBW is that poult is 2X the size of the blacks. If they were not all within a few days in age of each other then it would make the yellows a week or two older, If that were the case you would be seeing feathers. So, Black Spanish and BBW.

 

[JourneymanSun]

Day two for me,Hatch date Tuesday. I'm not sure what the white/yellow ones are but there are three of them. They are significantly larger than the black bodied yellow faced ones. The white ones are beating up on the colored ones bad. I had to separate them,have one black/yellow in critical condition. They are noisy nasty little buggers.

 

[JourneymanSun]

I know everybody is guessing without more to go on but the BLACK ones are Blacks. Slates poults are a light grey. Sweetgrass are yellow with a black skunk stripe down their back. Chocolate poults are brown. Royal Palm poults are all yellow at hatch and all the white colors too. The thing that has me thinking BBW is that poult is 2X the size of the blacks. If they were not all within a few days in age of each other then it would make the yellows a week or two older, If that were the case you would be seeing feathers. So, Black Spanish and BBW.

I'm also with you on this Id. I've looked thru countless turkey poult photos and I believe you hit the nail on the head. Those BBW's are aggressive.
Thank you colby.

 

[Arielle]

Then those are probably the BBW. My broilers out grew my std chicks very fast. I would expect the same for the BBW-- I had them and did n't have others at the time to compare to.

If size were not an issue, I would concider other heritag also. I have sweetgrass, and usually thereis a gray strip on the cream poult down.However I have had a rare few that are without the strip, and that is attibuted to more calico breeding. ( Accoring to Porter)

The effect of the lighting alters the shade of the poults. Viewed in the daylight the colors will be truer. That is why I suggested looking at Porters for comparison. ANd use the sale page.. Pretend you are planning to buy, as the selling page shows a pic of EVERY adult and if you click on a breed, it usually gives a description and a poult pic.

What ever they are, you will enjoy them.