Kaye's free range turkey thread

[BantamTurkey]

You should try to make fuzzy babies!! I'm in love with him!! I would so take him if I lived closer (aggressive or not) and try to bring that gene out in his offspring. I'm not sure of the hens I would need, but I do love the color anyway. Please do try to get more of that beard!! It is amazing me!!

 

[memphis]

I'd be tempted to breed him. Could be interesting!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

ROFL!!! oh my creepy turkeys


Do you sell hatching eggs? (in the spring)

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

  i want pretty turkeys like this

and this 


ROFL!!! oh my creepy turkeys


Do you sell hatching eggs? (in the spring)

I don't sell anything unfortunately. All my turkey eggs get fed back to the turkeys. Porters does sell hatching eggs and he's where I get mine from. I have gotten really great hatching rates as he packs his eggs well.

Thank you. I do like a colorful flock.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I don't sell anything unfortunately. All my turkey eggs get fed back to the turkeys. Porters does sell hatching eggs and he's where I get mine from. I have gotten really great hatching rates as he packs his eggs well.

Thank you. I do like a colorful flock.

what color would those 2 be called??

though, if you wanted to experiment with shipping eggs i would love to be a candidate

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

The first one is a mottled blue Tom, out of a blue and I believe the sweetgrass, which is what the two hens are. I'll let you know if I ever go into the turkey business.

 

[BantamTurkey]

I agree!! I would love to get a few eggs from you!!
I'm really looking forward to seeing what my bronze and blue will throw.
I'm known as the Turkey Lady by the neighbors because they follow me around like a line of baby ducks. I prefer 'The Turkey Queen' as far as my title, but it seems that the tiny chickens don't agree. I guess I'm just the 'One Who Feeds Us' to them....

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Funny. My turkeys get locked up so they can't follow me. It is fun to have the poults I'm raising following me, but the big ones are too much for me. Mine are rowdy and loud, gobbling and peeping at everything. Bad enough I got 5 dogs going everywhere I'm going. My chickens are another thing, they are all over the place.

My first generation turkey crosses were boring. It took crossing the second generation to get more colors. It's fun to see what you end up with. I can't hatch too many as I find it hard to get rid of extras as I get attached to most of them. I've had some good conversations with my turkeys.

 

[R2elk]

The central tom is a Tri-color Mottled Slate. This color variation can be created by crossing a Self Blue (aka Lavender) and a Sweetgrass. That pairing will produce 100% Tri-color Mottled Slates.

Crossing a Blue Slate with a Sweetgrass will produce 50% Tri-color Mottled Slates and 50% Tri-color Mottled Blacks.

Without seeing the tail feathers, I cannot tell whether the blacks in the photo are Mottled Blacks or Tri-color Mottled Blacks.

 

[R2elk]

I agree!! I would love to get a few eggs from you!!
I'm really looking forward to seeing what my bronze and blue will throw.
I'm known as the Turkey Lady by the neighbors because they follow me around like a line of baby ducks. I prefer 'The Turkey Queen' as far as my title, but it seems that the tiny chickens don't agree. I guess I'm just the 'One Who Feeds Us' to them....

If you cross a Bronze with a Blue Slate, you will get 50% Barred Slates and 50% Barred Blacks. If your Blue is a Self Blue crossed with a Bronze will produce 100% Barred Slates.

Of course as always this only works if the parents are pure and do not have any hidden recessive color genes.