Turkey poult gender?

[Elisa1]

Hello! Can anyone tell me the gender of these babies based on wing development? Can add more pics if necessary. Thanks!

 

[R2elk]

Hello! Can anyone tell me the gender of these babies based on wing development? Can add more pics if necessary. Thanks!

In my opinion the answer is they are too young to tell. However Celie made a post in which she did an experiment and claims 94% accuracy for determining the sex of turkey poults.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/725829/turkeys-for-2013/2750

 

[Elisa1]

Thank you! I looked through the threads and saw a quote: While holding the poult on it's back Males will naturally extend their legs out and females will tuck them into their bellies.
So I held them bellies up, and the one with his wings spread (see above pic) extended his legs! The other one ~wings laid down~ tucked her legs in! Looks like I picked a male and female based off of this experiment! I actually picked them out based on their little nubs on their beaks. I picked the one with the largest and the other with the smallest in hopes they would be a pair. So far, they are proving my theory right. LOL We'll see if they stay the correct gender. Hahaha!

 

[popsicle]

Thank you! I looked through the threads and saw a quote: While holding the poult on it's back Males will naturally extend their legs out and females will tuck them into their bellies.
So I held them bellies up, and the one with his wings spread (see above pic) extended his legs! The other one ~wings laid down~ tucked her legs in! Looks like I picked a male and female based off of this experiment! I actually picked them out based on their little nubs on their beaks. I picked the one with the largest and the other with the smallest in hopes they would be a pair. So far, they are proving my theory right. LOL We'll see if they stay the correct gender. Hahaha!

The spread wings reminds me of split wing in chickens--however I've read split wing is not an issue in turkeys. My poults with wings like that did end up having normal wings. Also, now that you mention it I do think all mine with the split wings like that ended up toms.