TURKEY CHICKS!!!!!!

[FREEWAYCAT]

HOW DO I TELL THE DIFFRENCE BETWEEN A MALE AND FEMALE TURKEY CHICK?

 

[Harley's girl]

I can not help ya there. I know nothing about turkeys!

 

[zatsdeb]

my baby turkeys are being shipped today too! From Cackle Hatchery, I got straight run so I hope I can figure out the sex, I got 5!

 

[Wolf-Kim]

You have to vent sex them similar to chickens. Depending on the breed, males and females will have different feathers.

We just bought some White Holland about a month old. The guy showed me how to vent sex them. The older and more relaxed they are the better. I'm still not quite sure what I have. LOL. He said he gave me a pair, but when he showed me how to ventsex to tell which was which, they both looked the same to me.

-Kim

 

[Frosty]

I compare the little snood bumps on their heads. The females have a smaller bump when they are little poults, they get a little older and it gets hard to tell, then they get older still and it gets easy again when the females will have a skinny thing that looks more like a skin tag.

 

[lilchick]

the toms will get a red face and droopy skin will hang down under neck.
also they are heavier and have chunky bodies compared to hens which are smaller framed and streamlined...

 

[Struttn1]

You will begin to notice the little gobblers developing waddles and the fuzz on their heads disappearing at around 6 or 7 weeks.