It's driving me crazy! Is turkey a hen or tom?!

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They both look like hens to me too but I'm not an expert in wild turkeys. I have white hollands and the males are very easy to tell from the females. One of our males has been doing a full strut since he was 9 days old. Very comical in baby turkeys. By 16 weeks the males were both bigger than the females in every respect and at this point, 22 weeks there is absolutely no doubt. The male's snoods grow longer as they strut and their heads color up red and blue and their carbuncles (or whatever those things on their neck are) get really bright red. The girls are pretty drab by comparison and have almost no carbuncles.

Here's one of our boys close up head shot.


You can see one of our girls behind him and compare the necks on them. Hers is nowhere near as big nor does it cover as much of the neck as his does. That snood of his grow down almost as long as his neck and spreads out to cover his whole beak. We just love our turkeys. They have so much personality.

Wow, yes he is much more developed than my two. I can only compare them to one another, and there aren't enough differences for me to really say for sure. Both appear really similar. I can tell them apart by eyes. Bruce got pecked and has a scar on one of his eyes. That and is much less friendly.

It will be much easier to find a tom than get enough hens for two toms, so I really hope you're right!