Maturity age of a tom question

[kelseygirl707]

LOL, your title made me laugh! My BIL's name is Tom, he is 23, but has a maturity age of 14! LOL!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yep you have a boy, the foot pic tells it all with the spur buds starting to come in, 100% possitive on it

 

[pdpatch]

In the picture 24702_pict0727.jpg I would call it a female because the snood does not
have a fat base, and the fine feathers on top of the head.

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Examples of male female snoods for Spanish Blacks

Generally females have a dainty snood the same size top to bottom when retracted, and they usually have more small feathers on the top of there heads.

Male snood can be retracted as in this picture, when it is is much thicker at the base, or extended.
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in the picture 24702_pict0725.jpg it does not appear to have enough size differnce for 9 month
old Turkeys to be a male and female.

At nine months the spurs should have been more developed for a male.

But not having raised Royal Palm before I am not 100% sure. Because such things do very from variety to variety for turkeys.
The untimate test is who layes an egg

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

your right about the snood, but that's on older males, at his age, it is still pretty small on royals. I have one about the same age here and it's snood it still small too, and the spurs are about the same size. My 4 year old breeder royals spurs are only about 1/2 inch too, they just dont seem to get big ones. He has the buds for them, and thick legs...
So I am still going jake on him....
Look at the pic of him with the hens. Note how much bigger he is body wise, taller leg shanks, and thicker legs too

 

[TV]

Looks like a really slow developing tom or just a bird that can't make it's mind up what it is. Was this bird ever injured? i had a Golden pheasant hen once that was injured by a dog (suspect her ovaries were damaged) and after she healed, she started developing male characteristics.