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I do. Price varies with age -- $10 for brand new babies up to $40 for juvenile birds nearing maturity. Turkeys are seasonal layers. With spring being the official turkey laying season. Mine tend to lay 2-3 times a year though. Once in the spring, as is normal for turkeys, again mid-summer and then again in the fall. I keep a reservation list for the spring season, fill my needs for breeding replacements and meat birds first, and then fill reservations as they came in with whatever else I'm able to hatch out. I also offer people the option of out-of-season poults if they want but can't make guarantees as they could decide to skip laying those (or I could miss it, since they free range and I have to hunt down the nests. LOL!) at any time.
This year they have already completed their spring and mid-summer seasons. IF they lay this fall that will be coming up here probably mid-September to mid-October -- depending on weather.
This is a better picture of my breeding Tom, taken this spring when the breeding season first started:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5015/5537454117_6a9c552376_z.jpg
And one of the hens, taken last fall:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/5090012014_0d35bdf65f_z.jpg
Oh and I agree with your son and I'm not a New Englander. LOL! Narrs are the best. Not only are they beautiful, they're what people think of when they think the quintessential Thanksgiving bird. And not just that, of the heritage breeds, they tend to be one of the meatiest.
I also do Narragansetts. In fact I have some young poults for sale now, but I'm over on the east side of the state, about a half hour south of Port Huron. Olive Hill, where are you located? I may keep you in mind for some "new blood" in the future.
I'm in Mid-Michigan right about smack in the middle of the palm part of the mitten.
I do. Price varies with age -- $10 for brand new babies up to $40 for juvenile birds nearing maturity. Turkeys are seasonal layers. With spring being the official turkey laying season. Mine tend to lay 2-3 times a year though. Once in the spring, as is normal for turkeys, again mid-summer and then again in the fall. I keep a reservation list for the spring season, fill my needs for breeding replacements and meat birds first, and then fill reservations as they came in with whatever else I'm able to hatch out. I also offer people the option of out-of-season poults if they want but can't make guarantees as they could decide to skip laying those (or I could miss it, since they free range and I have to hunt down the nests. LOL!) at any time.
This year they have already completed their spring and mid-summer seasons. IF they lay this fall that will be coming up here probably mid-September to mid-October -- depending on weather.
This is a better picture of my breeding Tom, taken this spring when the breeding season first started:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5015/5537454117_6a9c552376_z.jpg
And one of the hens, taken last fall:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/5090012014_0d35bdf65f_z.jpg
Oh and I agree with your son and I'm not a New Englander. LOL! Narrs are the best. Not only are they beautiful, they're what people think of when they think the quintessential Thanksgiving bird. And not just that, of the heritage breeds, they tend to be one of the meatiest.
I also do Narragansetts. In fact I have some young poults for sale now, but I'm over on the east side of the state, about a half hour south of Port Huron. Olive Hill, where are you located? I may keep you in mind for some "new blood" in the future.
I'm in Mid-Michigan right about smack in the middle of the palm part of the mitten.
