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When do toms start to gobble?

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Excuse my ignorance, my turkey experience is limited to the 5 hens I have owned.
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Does the one with the most color have feathers up the back of its neck & on its head? It does look like its starting a tiny beard, but could be a patch of colored feathers. Just cant quite tell on thes pictures.

The two lighter ones definitely look like hens to me.

If in fact they are a over a year the "tom" would be bald and he'd have more spur development. I have a hen with a beard, a friend has a big 'ole tom that the hens chewed the beard off of. So I guess Im more curious about the head feathers.
 
I see 2 hens 1 tom.

I'm looking on my phone. But I don't see much black feathering on the 2 hens look almost pure white.

Are the primary wing feathers on the hens white, grey or black?

In the 2nd pic the hen in the black next to the tom looks almost like a blue palm.

When do toms start to gobble?

Edited to add:
Excuse my ignorance, my turkey experience is limited to the 5 hens I have owned. :oops:


Some will gobble early but usually around 6 months they will start to gobble a lot.

When they are young I can usually tell the toms if they get startled or an old tom gobbles. The poults will answer with a 6 note up and down cadence yelp.
 

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