Turkey Talk for 2014

[chickadoodles]

Oh what a dilemma!!! I'm hatching the mottled blues like crazy right now. They sell very easy for $7 each. My RP hen is a crappy mom, so I will def be selling her after breeding season. Considering selling my tom and my Lavender hen & just breeding all these mottled's next year to create the lavender & blue palms! My bf wants to continue the rp's too, but won't build another pen. So that's not happening. I have to choose!!!!! Its sooo hard! I just do not know if the babies from the mottled turkeys will sell as well, since I honestly do not know what they will look like to explain to people.

What to do! What to do!

Can you run a piece of wire (or bird netting) down the middle of your pen to separate the birds next year for breeding season?

 

[sonderah]

Can you run a piece of wire (or bird netting) down the middle of your pen to separate the birds next year for breeding season?

I could. Its just idk if my pen is big enough to make 2 pens with it. I'd hate for them to be all cooped up, no pun intended. Right now I have 2 hens and 1 tom, & they seem like maybe 2 more hens may be able to go in there comfortably. Maybe I just need to do some whining!! Convince my sweety we need to make it bigger. Lol

 

[K Epp]

Rhett and babies. LOL

 

[Wasson6Pack]

Just bought 8 red golden pheasant eggs for hatching,!!! First emus then turkey, now pheasant. I'm i mess, I just can't stope hatching!

I would love to know where you found eggs!

Only 9 days until my Narragansett eggs are due to hatch!  I just candled the eggs, 14 of which are very active.  Just hoping and praying that they stay that way, and that they hatch out perfectly with no assistance. 

I would also love to know where you found eggs. I bought some and the post office destroyed them and they took a week to get here from 4 hours away. 1 little person made it and I need more.

 

[chickadoodles]

I could. Its just idk if my pen is big enough to make 2 pens with it. I'd hate for them to be all cooped up, no pun intended. Right now I have 2 hens and 1 tom, & they seem like maybe 2 more hens may be able to go in there comfortably. Maybe I just need to do some whining!! Convince my sweety we need to make it bigger. Lol

Hopefully you can get him to build you another one or add on to the one you have.

Good luck.

Rhett and babies. LOL

They are so adorable and what a great daddy!

I would love to know where you found eggs!
I would also love to know where you found eggs. I bought some and the post office destroyed them and they took a week to get here from 4 hours away. 1 little person made it and I need more.

You can check the 24 Hr. Auction or the Bin pages or BST pages.

 

[bellhorsepower]

I have 5 poults I got from the feedstore...2 bronze(?), one royal palm(?), 2 auburn(?). At what age can you tell the breed? 3 are about 6 weeks, the other two are about 3 weeks old. These are my first turkeys and I LOVE THEM!!!! Will post pics when I get good ones!

 

[Arielle]

PorterTUrkeys has a great web site for a pictorial on guessing the breed.

 

[bellhorsepower]

PorterTUrkeys has a great web site for a pictorial on guessing the breed.

Cool...thank you!

 

[TattooedMama]

Hello everyone! Been stalking this thread for a little while now soaking up all the great info. Just wanted to say hi

I just got my first turkeys a little while ago and my honey and I are hooked. We have 5 Narragansett poults and we adore them. Our babies were hatched out on 5/10 (2) & 5/27 (3).I'm hoping to get some eggs to hatch soon as I have a feeling I have more boys than I bargained for!

 

[chickadoodles]

Hello everyone! Been stalking this thread for a little while now soaking up all the great info. Just wanted to say hi

I just got my first turkeys a little while ago and my honey and I are hooked. We have 5 Narragansett poults and we adore them. Our babies were hatched out on 5/10 (2) & 5/27 (3).I'm hoping to get some eggs to hatch soon as I have a feeling I have more boys than I bargained for!

Hello and welcome to the Turkey Talk thread! We all love turkey here! I love the Narri turkey also they are so full of personalities!