Sexing a turkey

[resthavenfarms]

I don't know what I have. I do wonder why the snood isn't bigger and we've got no gobbles yet. It's pretty large--if it's a hen it's upper end size-wise for the BRs from what I've read. It probably weighs 12 or 13 lbs or something like that. I guess we will wait and see.

It still rarely struts, usually only on warm mornings when first let out of the coop, I've probably seen it strut a total of 8 times or so. It yelps like crazy at any of our visitors and it did strut around my aunt once, who looks almost exactly like me.

 

[Tunastopper]

You will be waiting until she lays that first egg. She is a hen.

 

[resthavenfarms]

Just an update here--this turkey's head looks the same except there are more feathers, no elongating snood and no gobble yet. IT does have a little beard though. I guess I'll keep waiting--I'm planning on getting a handful of poults in the spring and I hope I'm able to sex them earlier than a darn year! This guy's coming on 10 months now.