Poults of 2023

[casportpony]

I'm thinking orange and yellow are male, and the rest may be female looking at their weight trends here. This is an interesting experiment I attempted also. I made my predictions in my poults at 1 week of age and will see how accurate my initial predictions were once I can positively sex them based on phenotypical appearance as they mature. They are all wing banded for identification.

Thanks for the feedback and I look forward to seeing the result of your experiment. I've done this before with peafowl, and the ones that are at the top of the weight chart have always been male, so it will be interesting to see if the same is true with poults.

 

[KF0002]

Thanks for the feedback and I look forward to seeing the result of your experiment. I've done this before with peafowl, and the ones that are at the top of the weight chart have always been male, so it will be interesting to see if the same is true with poults.

That concurs with what I have read in articles also regarding turkeys. It will be fun to follow your poults as they grow.

P.S. My 14 poults are still doing well. They are 6 and 7 weeks old and have been on the ground for 2 weeks now in a pen outside. I'm very hypervigilent and watching them like a hawk.

 

[casportpony]

That concurs with what I have read in articles also regarding turkeys. It will be fun to follow your poults as they grow.

P.S. My 14 poults are still doing well. They are 6 and 7 weeks old and have been on the ground for 2 weeks now in a pen outside. I'm very hypervigilent and watching them like a hawk.

Great to hear that your poults are doing well! Do you have any pictures of them?

 

[KF0002]

Great to hear that your poults are doing well! Do you have any pictures of them?

Here are a few pictures of them. They are quickly outgrowing their outdoor brooder and will soon be going to a large coop/run as soon as we put the netting over the run to keep them from flying out. I've got the coop and run limed and watered in. There hasn't been chickens in the coop/run in probably 2 years and the soil is very sandy and dry. But I will watch them closely for signs of blackhead. I sit and stare at them daily for a while to make sure no one acts ill. Lol

Most of them will eventually free range in my goat lot when they get old enough.

 

[casportpony]

They are beautiful! What breeds are they?

 

[KF0002]

They are beautiful! What breeds are they?

Well originally they were sold to me as all sweetgrass but when I started sending the breeder pictures he realized that something got mixed up and I ended up with some semi penciled SG, a red SG, a blue SG, and maybe some semi penciled fall fires. One actually looks royal palm but I'm not sure how that could have come about from what pairings he had. Only time will tell what they all are as they mature and feather. I'm actually pleased to have so much genetic diversity and so many colors and varieties. They are all different looking and unique.

 

[R2elk]

They are beautiful! What breeds are they?

Turkey is the breed.

 

[KF0002]

They are beautiful! What breeds are they?

Oh and 2 are Narragansett. I also have 2 younger RP poults in the indoor brooder and a tri colored mottled slate I hatched from a friend's eggs.

 

[casportpony]

Turkey is the breed.

 

[casportpony]

Well originally they were sold to me as all sweetgrass but when I started sending the breeder pictures he realized that something got mixed up and I ended up with some semi penciled SG, a red SG, a blue SG, and maybe some semi penciled fall fires. One actually looks royal palm but I'm not sure how that could have come about from what pairings he had. Only time will tell what they all are as they mature and feather. I'm actually pleased to have so much genetic diversity and so many colors and varieties. They are all different looking and unique.

Oh and 2 are Narragansett. I also have 2 younger RP poults in the indoor brooder and a tri colored mottled slate I hatched from a friend's eggs.

What a nice selection!