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[Scottingitup]

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Love it!

 

[Evelle]

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HANDSOME FELLOW! Do you keep him as a pet, or will he be Thanksgiving dinner?

Thank you!

I keep all of my turkeys as pets but this year the girls hatched out 7 males. I sold a few to some people who wanted them as pets or as a companion to their female. I have 4 males left and I kinda thought about processing 1 but I'm not sure. I don't like Thanksgiving Turkey but someone on another thread gave me some ideas on other ways to use the turkey meat. As for now, they are only pets.

He is 7 months old.

HOLY MONSTER BATMAN!!!!!
7 months old!!!
wow lol... yeah mine are hens for sure i know now

 

[kuntrygirl]

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They are beautiful!

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Thank you!

I keep all of my turkeys as pets but this year the girls hatched out 7 males. I sold a few to some people who wanted them as pets or as a companion to their female. I have 4 males left and I kinda thought about processing 1 but I'm not sure. I don't like Thanksgiving Turkey but someone on another thread gave me some ideas on other ways to use the turkey meat. As for now, they are only pets.

He is 7 months old.

HOLY MONSTER BATMAN!!!!!
7 months old!!!
wow lol... yeah mine are hens for sure i know now

Yea, they are raised on 32% protein.

 

[kfacres]

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HOLY MONSTER BATMAN!!!!!
7 months old!!!
wow lol... yeah mine are hens for sure i know now

Yea, they are raised on 32% protein.

The biggest tom we butchered from this spring, weighed 55 live... most were in the 32-38 range. The smallest, which has not been butchered yet, weighed 38 yesterday.. he was a few weeks behind everybody else.

 

[Evelle]

HOLY CAPON!!!!!!
that is crazyness
this is the first time in two year mine have made it pass 4 months (dogs at large

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and mine are still tiny maybe i need to up protein?? not sure what they get now for DH buys the food

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Yes, please find out the protein. A higher protein always makes a big ole' bird.

 

[Scottingitup]

I was feeding 30% up until 2 weeks ago, I had to drop it down. Just costing too much. I might supplement with soy bean or something.

 

[SonnyGirl]

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Don't know if you're able to sex them better at this point, but I agree that the far left is def a Tom. The one on the far right looks questionable to me too, though, as possibly a small Tom, but that's just an uncertain opinion! haha. You can see how the one on the far left has slight differences... the feather colors, the large waddle (skin flap under beak), generally bigger than the others, etc. The one on the right was questionable to me because of the feathers, there seemed to be a bit larger of a waddle than the two hens in the middle. That one isn't very large though, so not sure. It gets easier as they get older and one of the most definite markers are their behavior and noises as they grow! The toms will fluff out more, fan their tails more, and their noises are unmistakable

 

[chicmom]

Here's a recent pic of my Royal Palm turkey tom, and my Blue Slate hen is behind him....along with a few chickens.....