Some pics from today:
Went to check on the bantam tractor & look what I found....
Yes, DD dyed Teddy, her serama boy, blue!
The rest of the bantam gang are another serama - named Noodle - who's female but also crows. An OEG named Digger, a buff silkie named Macy, and a LF English orp named Cupcake (also nicknamed BFO for Big Fat Orp)
Digger
Broody Jewel. She's sitting on turkey eggs, so perhaps that's why she's imitating a turkey. I only saw 3 turkey eggs. Not sure what happened & why 1 disappeared. Due to hatch June 20th.
Our young cockerel
Mr Wonderful:
Some turkeys raised by Smudge. (They'll be off to their new home tomorrow.)
@Molpet What do you think of them? I'm predicting a male & female. The one in front has always been bigger.
Love the pictures!!!
And yay for my turkeys!!!
I'm so happy to be getting them but totally clueless when I'll be able to sex them. I'll need help with that!
They say the bigger is usually male .. bigger bones and square head are other things to look for in boys... when they get 4-6 months old the boys lose the feathers up the back of the neck and the snood grows... by 6 months usually if the snood goes beyond the beak it's a boy. the boys can scrunch up their snood so it looks like a rhino horn and the girls can't
that all being said I thought I had 2 pair in 2016 until 6 months... when the 2 'girls' suddenly lost the neck feathers and I had 4 jakes
most hens don't strut, gobble or have a beard, but there are several people who have hens that do all these.... my hen will strut if she is PO'ed