Can you keep a broad breasted turkey as a pet?

[FortCluck]

Sparingly. Turkeys love watermelon.

I gave them some yesterday I bought two watermelon at Walmart because they were only $2.50 per melon. They were huge. I only gave them about a quarter and they had to share it with the big boob chickens (Cornish rocks).

They’re suckering me. I swear they are going to Fort Click. I don’t even know if I have Tons or Hens.

What age can you sex them?

 

[R2elk]

I gave them some yesterday I bought two watermelon at Walmart because they were only $2.50 per melon. They were huge. I only gave them about a quarter and they had to share it with the big boob chickens (Cornish rocks).

They’re suckering me. I swear they are going to Fort Click. I don’t even know if I have Toms or Hens.

What age can you sex them?

If they were mine, I could probably start sexing them at two weeks but to sex someone else's from photos, they need to be at least 3 to 6 months old. For sexing from pictures, post individual shots. One each of a full frontal, a full side view and a shot from behind looking down and clearly showing the back of the neck and top of the head. All pictures need to be relatively close and in focus.

 

[FortCluck]

If they were mine, I could probably start sexing them at two weeks but to sex someone else's from photos, they need to be at least 3 to 6 months old. For sexing from pictures, post individual shots. One each of a full frontal, a full side view and a shot from behind looking down and clearly showing the back of the neck and top of the head. All pictures need to be relatively close and in focus.

I’ll try and make a thread or just post it in the Kiki speak one. They’re hilarious. I’m never buying turkeys again!

 

[R2elk]

I’ll try and make a thread or just post it in the Kiki speak one. They’re hilarious. I’m never buying turkeys again!

But they are so delicious.

 

[Friendly_Lurker]

I had a lone turkey once, Bubbles. He was a Royal Palm. Anyway, his friends had all died, he had killed two chickens and beat up a duck, so I put him in a coop where he could see the other birds. He stopped eating, and eventually starved.

 

[R2elk]

I had a lone turkey once, Bubbles. He was a Royal Palm. Anyway, his friends had all died, he had killed two chickens and beat up a duck, so I put him in a coop where he could see the other birds. He stopped eating, and eventually starved.

Turkeys are very social birds and do best with the companionship of others of their own kind. It is never a good idea to keep a lone tom with other poultry, especially during breeding season.

Turkeys can get depression and die from it.

 

[FortCluck]

Turkeys are very social birds and do best with the companionship of others of their own kind. It is never a good idea to keep a lone tom with other poultry, especially during breeding season.

Turkeys can get depression and die from it.

All 4 in in Fort Cluck... I caved

If we have more than 1 male I’ll have to off it. I tried getting pics and they wanted nothing to do with it

 

[Clucking Lovely]

Yes you can we have a BBB tom that's 3 years old, we do kind of think this is his last year but he's such a sweetheart. I have several stories of him that might make him seem like an a**hole but he's really just a sweet bird.

Out of curiosity do you still have your tom? My heart is breaking reading this thread because up until 30 minutes ago, i thought my 4 week old turkey was a royal palm....

 

[R2elk]

Out of curiosity do you still have your tom? My heart is breaking reading this thread because up until 30 minutes ago, i thought my 4 week old turkey was a royal palm....

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