Turkey Talk for 2014

[uphilljill]

Turkey shaming. Love it! (Even better: She looks just like my MW hens.)

 

[DraigAthar]

Turkey shaming. Love it! (Even better: She looks just like my MW hens.)

Haha, she was on the nest when I took the picture, so she was actually really mad at me, too. That was the only photo where she didn't look like she was about to peck my eyes out.

 

[Momhunter]

How do you feather sex turkey poults?

 

[TeaChick]

So I'm having fun with photos like these:



More here, haha:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/857759/public-poultry-shaming

lol
I've got to try this with my kids. lol
Disclaimer: I'm not cruel; they're homeschooled, so they wouldn't be wearing it out in public. Plus, I wouldn't really do it anyway (well, not that much).

hehe thank you! thats my boy Logan, hes prob a pit boxer cross no way to really know...he is about 4 now. got him from a shelter in NYC he was all starved, messed up and on death row.. he had motor oil all over him and they said he was brown.. LOL no hes blue under all the oil and dirt. I tried to rehome him last thing I wanted was another dog but he looks like the devil and nobody wanted him. I had four American bulldogs (my fav guardian breed) in the last decade or more but they all got old and passed on, so we kept the big goofball....acts like a puppy and is very kind and innocent with other animals and people thinks everyone is his long lost best friend.

Well, he's beautiful. Yeah, some ppl are so cruel to animals!!! Glad he's got a good home with you! =D

Its a Federal Offence...

Thanks. =)

Some one asked this a little while back on the 2013 turkey thread. I don't agree with and am actually against the catching and keeping of wild turkey. For 1 they are very different than the domesticated turkeys we keep in the aspect of caring for needs. They have a very very different diet than we can offer and likely wont handle confinement after you catch them etc. For 2 it is likely illegal in many or all states. And for 3 there is such a wide variety of domesticated heritage turkeys to choose from and many places to acquire hatching eggs and poults.

I wasn't on the 2013 thread. Thanks.
I would have free ranged, but I didn't know they were that different. I realized it was a possibility; I figured in the end catching them would be dumb. Some animals you can do that with others you can't; I didn't know which turkeys fell into.
I'm getting hatching eggs from a friend, so I don't need to catch them, I just didn't know if that was an option.

 

[TeaChick]

I have a question. My hen is laying in the woods. I know where her nest is. It has 3-4 eggs in it. I know she is waiting to get "enough" before she sets. But it is still below freezing at night, so they r not likely to be viable. If I stuck about 10 chicken eggs in there, do you think the next time he went to lay, if the 15-16 were enough, that she would set? Or would she know they are not hers and abandon that nest?

Good question. I'd like to know too. =)

 

[TeaChick]

How do you feather sex turkey poults?

Another good question.
I wonder if this is on another thread or in an article we could search?????
I'll check.

 

[TeaChick]

Check out the second post on this thread:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...sex-hens-from-their-racing-strip-and-toms-but

And here's what I came up with searching what she said: "How to sex turkey poults":
This was about the sixth (or something like that) result down, but it has some good info to learn about this.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/701744/how-to-determine-sex-of-turkeys

It would be great if someone who knew, could post a thread or an article about sexing turkeys; it seems there is no one source for really good information.

Now, I'm going to check the 2013 thread and see if I can copy the info from there, so it's on this thread as well.
Sorry, it wasn't on the last couple of pages and I have other threads to reply to, but here's a link to it:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/725829/turkeys-for-2013/4020

Hope the links help make this easier for anyone doing research. =)

 

[chicken pickin]

How do you feather sex turkey poults?

From what I have experience read and heard, Turkeys cant be feather sexed(at least not in the sense of how you feather sex chickens). Typically you need to wait until they are older, a good age where the difference between male and female really start to show them selves in around 12weeks old. You need to look at the snood, caruncles, dewlap and as they age females will continue to have a "Mohawk" of hair where as toms are bald. Also Toms will start to gobble(only toms do this) and toms faces will also change colors as he matures(pink, red, blue, white) Females head colors are pink and red.

You can not use displaying strutting or beards as gender id since both males and females can display this.

Some turkey varieties you can I guess feather sex by the color of the edging of the feathers females will have a light edging males will have black edging. They need to be getting their adult feathers for this and Im not sure what varieties can do this.

 

[Sydney Acres]

How do you feather sex turkey poults?

In general, I don't think you can. I don't remember it ever being mentioned on this thread when a gender question has come up. I may be thinking of a chicken, where many breeds can be feather sexed, but I seem to recall reading somewhere that one of the unusual breeds can be either feather sexed or down color sexed, but can't remember where I read it. What breed do you have?

 

[Jmpeters]

I seen a lady using a necklace and holding it behind the poults head and somehow sexing them. Anyone ever hear of that? She told her friend shes bout 95% accurate. When I went back to ask her how she did it, she was gone.