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[Cuban Longtails]

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Thank you, Matt

 

[GotGame]

I can see why captain was growing on u. He was trying to preen my fingers earlier.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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I look for the length of the snood. Males usually have longer ones that start to lay over their beak.

Yea, the one that gobbles has the big snood. But the others aren't that much smaller than his and they all look like they have red necks. Who'd of thought turkey sexin' would be so difficult?
Should they all 3 be gobbling by now? Probably not at 4 1/2 mo, huh?

I'm new to turkeys. My last experience was with the monsters you get at the feed store.

I got mine at POOPS & they still don't gobble or strutt much.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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He's such a sweet bird!

 

[GotGame]

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He's such a sweet bird!

Ya, will probably focus my asil breeding around and on him.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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He's such a sweet bird!

Ya, will probably focus my asil breeding around and on him.

I like how he would talk to me whenever I was in his line of site. The pullet I want to breed to him does the same thing.

 

[GotGame]

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Ya, will probably focus my asil breeding around and on him.

I like how he would talk to me whenever I was in his line of site. The pullet I want to breed to him does the same thing.

Ya, he is a cool little bird. Very personable, and reminds me of that saying about dynamite coming in small packages.

 

[artsyrobin]

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did you see my reply on them- if we can get them down here?

 

[muesky]

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Ksane, looking at the pictures and not seeing them in personally, It really looks like they are all hens. Maybe the one closest to the camera in the trio picture is a male but the others really look like hens. Remember Royal Palms are heritage breed birds and take longer to mature, so it can take a bit longer to figure out the sex. Here is how I identify hens, first off watch their behavior. The hens tend to be more social with each other, where the males start isolating themselves. (Of course you always get your weird ones), look at the feathering on the neck and back of the head. Your males will have started loosing the downy feathers on the head and upper neck where as the female always retain some of that. The snood (the skin over the beak) is a good indicator of male female. Females' snoods will stay small and fuzzy, where as the males will shed the fuzz and the snood starts getting longer. A good test is grab the turkey, hold it down and start messing with the snood, the male's snood will extend after a while the females will not. Yes, I know this sound dirty but it has been the best indicator when they are at that cusp age. Neck color is not a good indicator of sex. I have had toms with pale coloring until they were 8 months or older and females with bright red coloring. The male's head will also be more blunt then a females and not taper into the neck as smoothly.
The reason why I think at least two of them are female is the shape of their heads, they all still have a lot of downy feathers of their upper necks and all of them have very small snoods. I could be totally wrong, but with turkeys I am often not.

 

[Ksane]

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did you see my reply on them- if we can get them down here?

That'd actually work out good for me because I'm in a dilemma where to put them so they won't be exposed to any of the potentially sick birds.