Care to take a guess M or F?

[lovesgliders]

I am no help, but I just had to comment and say that I had never seen a picture of turkeys at this age! They look so cool, like little vultures, to me!

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Too young to tell.

 

[ColbyNTX]

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You should see a guinea at this age!

 

[Jocasta]

I am by no means an expert!!! I have hatched out 11 turkeys and kept four. This is the extent of my experience on turkey sexing lol.

That said, I have done a lot of reading and kept coming across the head shape thing. If you look at the top of the head, you should notice that some look more "square" and some look more "triangular". I took this on board when selling some of my turkey poults. As I'm raising for meat, I ideally wanted males. I picked out the four with the squareist looking heads and also tried to coincide that with snood length (as this was something else that kept coming up), and the largest of the birds. This was at two weeks old. They are now 10-12 weeks old (I've lost count lol) and I know for a fact that three are males as they have all gobbled and they all look to be developing the fleshy bits at the bottom of the neck that I've only seen in photos of males.

It's very possible that I was just bloody lucky and managed to get all boys by nothing more than coincidence but it did seem to "work" lol.