Poults from same hen, multiple toms?

[ahenchey]

I started breeding different varieties of turkeys this year. I had the hen separated with the tom for over a month before collecting eggs. I know that some will hold onto sperm longer that. But my question is, is it possible for eggs from the same week of collecting to have been fathered by multiple toms? Some of the eggs that have hatched the last 2 times have poults that come out completely different. They are from the same hen, and some hatch and look true to the breed which is what I want. However, some hatch and are obvious mixes. So can some poults from the same hatch be true pure varieties and some be mixes, or are they all mixes?

 

[R2elk]

I started breeding different varieties of turkeys this year. I had the hen separated with the tom for over a month before collecting eggs. I know that some will hold onto sperm longer that. But my question is, is it possible for eggs from the same week of collecting to have been fathered by multiple toms? Some of the eggs that have hatched the last 2 times have poults that come out completely different. They are from the same hen, and some hatch and look true to the breed which is what I want. However, some hatch and are obvious mixes. So can some poults from the same hatch be true pure varieties and some be mixes, or are they all mixes?

We need more information. We need to know which variety the tom is and we need to know what variety the hen is. Not all varieties will breed true. An example is that if you breed a Blue Slate tom to a Blue Slate hen, the results can be:

Blue Slate - 50%
Self Blue (aka Lavender) - 25%
Black - 25%

If the variety of turkey that you are breeding has any heterozygous color genes, they cannot breed true. In order for the turkey to breed true to color, it and its mate both have to have the same sets of homozygous color genes.