MrsWinterWheat
Songster
Hi!
We have 4 turkeys and just wondering if I am correct on their gender.
They are 10 weeks old hatched from the same set. Variety is Ridley Bronze mix because a white poult hatched and the markings are off on the others. So the breeder has a cross somewhere in the mix (usually they have a Beltsville or Holland White). I will leg band the females and keep them for eggs but any males I will be inviting to dinner. Would they be processed at 20 weeks or is it better to wait because they are mostly a heritage variety? I was hoping to get somewhere around 20lbs (dressed out).
Also, the breeder was advertising their eggs as an “Endangered Ridley Bronze”. I didn’t know better at that time to ask if he had hatched out white chicks (one of the main sign that it isn’t a true breed). I did more research regarding how to go about asking about the genetics. But I guess people could also lie. My dilemma is should I tell him that this happened? I specifically got hatching eggs from him because I wanted at least a breeding pair. But now I can’t trust that any of the eggs I hatched out from him doesn’t carry the white recessive gene. Thoughts?
#1 (?female)
#2 (?female)
#3 (?male)
#4 (?female)
We have 4 turkeys and just wondering if I am correct on their gender.
They are 10 weeks old hatched from the same set. Variety is Ridley Bronze mix because a white poult hatched and the markings are off on the others. So the breeder has a cross somewhere in the mix (usually they have a Beltsville or Holland White). I will leg band the females and keep them for eggs but any males I will be inviting to dinner. Would they be processed at 20 weeks or is it better to wait because they are mostly a heritage variety? I was hoping to get somewhere around 20lbs (dressed out).
Also, the breeder was advertising their eggs as an “Endangered Ridley Bronze”. I didn’t know better at that time to ask if he had hatched out white chicks (one of the main sign that it isn’t a true breed). I did more research regarding how to go about asking about the genetics. But I guess people could also lie. My dilemma is should I tell him that this happened? I specifically got hatching eggs from him because I wanted at least a breeding pair. But now I can’t trust that any of the eggs I hatched out from him doesn’t carry the white recessive gene. Thoughts?
#1 (?female)
#2 (?female)
#3 (?male)
#4 (?female)
