help me identify and sex this turkey/turkeys

The bird in your very first picture is not a standard bronze. If it were, the tips of the feathers on the lower back and the tip of the tail would be a much lighter buff color, almost white. Also, the secondaries that show the very pretty mottled light brown would show some black and white barring. This hen may be what the seller called wild cross, and it may be a cross between an eastern wild and a bronze, ot it may even be a wild, but it doesn't seem to have the same sheen that wild turkeys do. It may also be a red bronze, although it is common for the nice brown wing area to be paler on red bronzes.

You sat that the other hen has more white in the back feathes and the tail band. That one is quite likely a standard bronze.

The gray one is not a narragansett. For a narragansett, see Courtney R's picture. Your bird is a very solid gray on the body while narragansetts are grey and black. Also, narragansett tails tend to be browner and the secondaries would not be barred, but would look like a pale version of the secondaries of the hen on the first picture. Not sure exactly what it is, though.
 
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The first pic I posted the bird has more brown shades on the wings and tail. Also its legs are much darker as well almost brown too. The other two have more rosy colored legs. Not sure if thats a trait on any particular breed. I noticed the second one I hope is a hen has the same mohawk of feather on its head where as the grey one does not. Its head is more bald. Any guess's on the sex's of these 3?
 
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It looks like a hen to me, and it looks similar to some of my Narragansett crosses.
edit to add: it is a very pretty bird.
 
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Another pic of the " male" turkey showing the tail pattern and color. Does this help anyone?
It looks a lot like a Narragansett with gray genes, but I don't know for sure. You could test this by crossing with a regular Narragansett. If all the offspring look like narragansetts, then you have a Narragansett with two recessive "something's" which in this case are likely gray genes (palm genes).
 


We have looked at my 3 turkeys since my husband posted this thread and have looked for any subtle differences. The grey/brown turkey is the only one that has a bare head, a small snod (1/4-3/8") and the only bird that has a "wattle". No sign of a wattle or loose skin on the neck on the other two. As more snods on the other two only a faint bump hardly noticeable and never protrudes. The bronze? and smallest one have a stripe of short feathers running up the back of the neck to the top of their heads. The one with a snod and wattle is completely bare headed.

Does that really make sense? I am still very confused in the sexes. I had thought the greyish one to be male because of these reasons. Bare head, visible snod and wattle, lack of neck and head feathers and the size of it compared to the other bird acquired the same day from same place. He picked out those two as a pair and the grey as a possible male. The breed is secondary I suppose.
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We have looked at my 3 turkeys since my husband posted this thread and have looked for any subtle differences. The grey/brown turkey is the only one that has a bare head, a small snod (1/4-3/8") and the only bird that has a "wattle". No sign of a wattle or loose skin on the neck on the other two. As more snods on the other two only a faint bump hardly noticeable and never protrudes. The bronze? and smallest one have a stripe of short feathers running up the back of the neck to the top of their heads. The one with a snod and wattle is completely bare headed.

Does that really make sense? I am still very confused in the sexes. I had thought the greyish one to be male because of these reasons. Bare head, visible snod and wattle, lack of neck and head feathers and the size of it compared to the other bird acquired the same day from same place. He picked out those two as a pair and the grey as a possible male. The breed is secondary I suppose.
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I've zoomed in on the pictures of the gray turkey, and think it has a hen look. Small carnuckles. small snood, and light color on the feather tips. It also has a lot of fuzz on the back of the neck. But, I'm a newbie at sexing poults, and am only guessing
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