Thought they were hens... Now I'm wondering.

[Triggerjay]

So I have raised two bronze turkey this year (first time), and by their appearance (no beard) I assumed they were female. The other day, I got a new rooster. My turkeys were harder on my new roo than my other roo. They ran at him, flogged him, and puffed out all their feathers, raised their tails and fanned them out... And here I thought I had hens.. now im confused. Heres a couple pics of my turkeys... One's name is Christmas, and the other's name is Thanksgiving:

So, tell me like it is.. lol

Jason

 

[Poupoulles]

Gobble gobble gobble.... Those snoods (little dangling things on their nose/beak) look pretty boy like to me...

 

[longranger]

With the white edging on the neck and chest feathers these look like hens to me.

 

[Harp Turkey Ranch]

They are hens, as far as I can see. You can see the white lacing on the breast feathers, as hens will have white lacing and the toms will not.

Plus their snoods are not big enough and they don't have the large carnucles that the toms have,

 

[turkeyman]

Yupp you got two hens there.

 

[Triggerjay]

ah.. good to know... now, next question.. (yeah, im a newbie to this) how good are turkey eggs to eat, and at what age do they start laying? Thanks for all the replies on their gender!

Jason

 

[Cara]

My turkey hen will fan her tail and show off to new birds also.

The eggs don't taste any different to chicken eggs, we eat them once we've hatched all the poults we need for the year.

They lay seasonally, approx. April through August for us.

 

[Triggerjay]

Great! thats what I was hoping. Now I need to find a tom!..

Jason

 

[turkeyman]

They look like broad breasted bronze in those pics too me.

 

[dixiedoodle09]

We have 2 bronze hens that look just like that. They make a real weird noise when they are mad. They turn bright red and puff their feathers. They only do that to a select few of our hens, not sure why just certain ones.