Heritage - Broad Breast crosses

[TurkeyTimes]

Yes, pencilling can only be expressed on a blackwing bronze base.

This is little Rose, our red palm hen. I need to get a picture of her butt,she is semi pn. Other birds make for a good comparison. She is between a royal palm and a pencilled blue palm.

I purchased one pencilled sweetgrass and 5 tiger bronze recently and will get some pics up once they feather out a bit.

 

[BreanneRN]

@TurkeyTimes, I love her, she is beautiful! I can see why you are calling her Rose... Thanks for the info on the penciling etc., too. The Penciled blue is gorgeous too! She is so much prettier than a buff, love those peach tones.

 

[TurkeyTimes]

Yeah she is pretty rare. She came out of a single tricolor pencilled hen and tom. It's like 12.5% with 16 breeding specimens. So with 2 we got lucky. I hope I can get one more before the hatching year is over. The pencilled Tom is Ivan, he's super gorgeous and has a great personality.

 

[BreanneRN]

Well, I am starting to have some fertile eggs, put 4 in the incubator and 2 developed up to a point, unfortunately lost them due to it just being too hot, and incubator only heats, doesn't cool so they just got too hot... I would go in and temp would be high, and unit seems working, but it is too hot for the eggs to cool just from the heat going off. Have to figure out something to do about that... Maybe just wait until next year or maybe cool the room with the incubator with a swamp cooler type thing. That will add needed humidity too. Or, keep collecting eggs until fall and try then. The Heritage poults I bought are suffering from the heat as well. It is just bad this year. The BB's I bought from the feedstore look about 8-9 weeks now and they are doing well. Glad my RP Tom is getting the job done now and hope these BB ladies make it to next year. I am afraid it is just too hot to hatch now, unless I want to be adding an ice pack or something... from time to time. Maybe an ice cube for added humidity, but would take a lot of babysitting... Don't think I want to embark on that journey right now.

 

[aliciaplus3]

OK update pics

spudley in front he? Is getting to be a good looking bird. I was trying to love on him but squeeker wasn't having it....

darling is molting but she wanted me to know that I was supposed to be paying attention to her. She went broody on me and I think she would have been successful if stilts ( the black hen) wouldn't have been trying to "help" ie sitting on her and or the eggs too, silly birds

 

[aliciaplus3]

sorry I forgot to share the who is who pic

 

[TurkeyTimes]

Spudley is a good looking narri tom!

 

[aliciaplus3]

Spudley is a good looking narri tom!

I was thinking that's what he looked like ..... the person I got the eggs from thought her bourbon red was doing the job

 

[BreanneRN]

Wow, Spudley is growing up and looking good! Thanks so much for the update, haven't been doing too much, just trying to survive the heat this year. My hen Bridget still laying, she is a nice hen (not surprising that she is a good egg layer, since that is the primary job of commercial birds). My 2 feed store adoptees have grown, I am hoping they are not both Toms, pretty sure at least one is, have been feeding them cherry tomatoes on a plant that I wound up not liking much (Black Cherry) and they about take my hand off for those... Have 5 heritage poults, a black, a slate or blue?, a white one (probable Royal Palm), and 2 that are some kind of dilute colored bronze or Narragansett. Have to post pics and have you all help me with these colors. Think they are close to 8 weeks now, too soon to sex them. I have been collecting eggs and pondering whether I should do a late hatch or not after it cools off. I have figured out that what I really want are farm turkeys, which my definition is birds that can reproduce naturally, but still maintain a degree of meatiness in the carcass. They still produce birds like that in the UK, which being a small, island country, has many small holder farmers who produce the birds for a limited market... Doing a little research and came up with this link of how it is done in the UK with interviews from actual small holder turkey farmers making a living raising free range birds over there maybe it will interest some. Not promoting the UK or anything, just their support of small holder farming and maintaining farm turkeys. Hoping it cools off soon, though know it won't until the end of September, that is the way it is around these parts... Hoping all is well with everyone... Looking forward to seeing Spudley poults next year! https://www.countrysideonline.co.uk/home/get-involved/uk-turkeys/meet-the-turkey-farmers

 

[aliciaplus3]

We shall see.... I am still not 100% sure that I ended up with any darling babies..... but that's OK with any luck we will try again when my new Toms get old enough