Standard Bronze Turkeys - Hatching! w00t!

[ticks]

Sara has a Heritage breed, and are yours meat birds MP?
Are heritage really 40 pounds?

That's what I have in my bator!

 

[MissPrissy]

No. My turkeys are standard bronze turkeys, a heritage breed.

A standard tom can be quite hefty at maturity.

If you are expecting a turkey to be the size of a large rooster you are in for a surprise.

 

[ticks]

Oh, I must have gotten yours confused with a broad breasted bronze.

No I expect them to be like the size of a turkey.

we have like a little market that sells plants and things, they have bourbon reds (in my bator) and they dont look 40 pounds.

 

[miss_jayne]

those poults are beautiful. lovely. oh my, my, my! can't wait to try some!

ticks...the turkeys you have set are big boys too. be ye prepared.

 

[MissPrissy]

Last year I had both kinds of turkeys, ticks. The BBB for thanksgiving and these I was growing out for my own flock for laying. It has been a full year come the end 21st of May. I am very pleased with my turkeys.

 

[Marion]

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According to the ALBC.... Standard weights for Bourbon Reds are 23 pounds for young toms and 14 pounds for young hens. Since, however, the Bourbon Red has not been selected for production attributes, including weight gain, for years, many birds may be smaller than the standard. Careful selection for good health, ability to mate naturally, and production attributes will return this variety to its former stature.

My Bourbon Reds are just hatching... I am hoping for some BIG ones but they are so cute that I will adore them either size!

 

[ticks]

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My middle name is prepared.

 

[MissPrissy]

I tend to prefer large breeds. When I cull flocks I tend to cull small specimens and breed the largest of the large. It is perhaps a fault of mine but I tend to think bigger I better. Fat and sassy, chunky and plump - it rocks in my book.

 

[wilds of pa]

Yup got 24 more fresh eggs between yesterday and first thing this morning down in the holding room..when they come off roost most of the hens head for the hay bail nesting areas or used pine tree piles or they hold off to lay around noon timish.

However these guys will be sold or incubated and Poults sold locally at auction or to patrons.. or maybe I'll be in the mode for some big dippers..lol

Wild season is on big time..

Are "happy partner" has asked me why his guineas haven't laid, well i told him they should because if yours are starting now it shouldn't be long until his start as you are a tad bit further south..

~Wilds~

 

[MissPrissy]

We sort of lucked up and found this nest. It was under the barn but within reaching distance. Guineas didn't hide them well enough. LOL So I took them all. I htink my big egg layer is the one that we found fried on the electric fence. So far these eggs are not the size laid last year by the hens.