Eggs or Beard?

[FalseToast]

I know how to sex chickens from an early age, but both ducks and turkeys have me confused.

I recently—more like a month or two ago—bought two poults, with one not making it. I knew something was wrong when I brought it home, but I couldn’t find the confidence to contact the seller about it.

Anyways! This is Squid.





I have two hens and I am praying to every God to exist that this calamari-impersonator is a tom! Is anyone able to help? To me, it looks more like a hen, but so does everything at first glance and I have no idea what to even look for at this age! Aside from strutting, which… it’s been raised with chickens, so I’m near-certain it thinks it’s a chicken.

 

[R2elk]

I know how to sex chickens from an early age, but both ducks and turkeys have me confused.

I recently—more like a month or two ago—bought two poults, with one not making it. I knew something was wrong when I brought it home, but I couldn’t find the confidence to contact the seller about it.

Anyways! This is Squid.

View attachment 3937058
View attachment 3937059
View attachment 3937060

I have two hens and I am praying to every God to exist that this calamari-impersonator is a tom! Is anyone able to help? To me, it looks more like a hen, but so does everything at first glance and I have no idea what to even look for at this age! Aside from strutting, which… it’s been raised with chickens, so I’m near-certain it thinks it’s a chicken.

Too young to sex from pictures. If you want to know bad enough, you can have it DNA sexed from either a feather or blood sample.

There are at least two different companies that offer DNA sexing.

 

[FalseToast]

Too young to sex from pictures. If you want to know bad enough, you can have it DNA sexed from either a feather or blood sample.

There are at least two different companies that offer DNA sexing.

That sounds expensive; is it?

 

[R2elk]

That sounds expensive; is it?

Last I checked it was around $20 to $25 per test.

 

[Pearlescent]

To young, but if I had to make a wild guess I’d say it’s a hen. Although some Tom’s don’t show until almost a year. I’d recommend a DNA test.

Also, My tom turkey is named Squid too lol

 

[yesterDAYNE]

Feather sexing isn't too expensive, I had it done to a clutch of babies where I was specifically trying to get a female of a certain color. I get attached too easy to them and so I needed to know young so I could rehome the others before it was too hard, lol.

I used https://iqbirdtesting.com/ . It's 15.99 for blood sexing, and 17.99 for feather or egg shell testing.

 

[FalseToast]

Feather sexing isn't too expensive, I had it done to a clutch of babies where I was specifically trying to get a female of a certain color. I get attached too easy to them and so I needed to know young so I could rehome the others before it was too hard, lol.

I used https://iqbirdtesting.com/ . It's 15.99 for blood sexing, and 17.99 for feather or egg shell testing.

Ah, thank you! I will keep note of this!