Turkeys For 2013

[chickadoodles]

If you have any doubt about your water supply, a one or even ten micron water filter does not cost much and fairly easy to put in-line coming from the well to most houses and safer for the family, too!
There are sites that offer reduced Rx prices for people who do not have low co-pays on their insurance and I ran across one the other day that will reduce the price up to 70%, even for your pets! If anyone is interested, I'll try to look it up again. Most major drug stores accept them. I think they get a reduced price from the drug companies if they do.

Thanks Celie, I did bring this up to my DH we are going to look into it.

 

[TexasLisa]

If you have any doubt about your water supply, a one or even ten micron water filter does not cost much and fairly easy to put in-line coming from the well to most houses and safer for the family, too!
There are sites that offer reduced Rx prices for people who do not have low co-pays on their insurance and I ran across one the other day that will reduce the price up to 70%, even for your pets! If anyone is interested, I'll try to look it up again. Most major drug stores accept them. I think they get a reduced price from the drug companies if they do.

I am interested Celie!! Thanks!!

Lisa

 

[Celie]

http://www.everybodyrx.com/#online-order-form is where I saw it.

 

[B J Hopkins]

I have some color questions. All are close to 4 months old. The parents to all of these birds were: a full royal palm hen, and a half royal palm, half bourbon red tom.
Here is a hen. All hens with white are this color. All white toms show normal royal palm patterning, no brown. Is there even a name for this color? I find it striking, like calico.




Here is another hen. What is this? Bronze? I've never had a bronze hen so I'm not sure what they look like. Her feathers are edged with light, creamy brown.


Ok, now some questions about the boys. This guy has very dark brown, almost black,feathers on his back and chest. Solid colored, no edging. They are shiny in the sun but not multicolored like a bronze. The tips of his tail are very white. What is this?


The other 'bronzey' boys have the very shiny red/green/brown feathers that are absolutely gorgeous. They give the appearance of scales.The tips of their tail are reddish, not white like the one above. He's in the back in this picture. Their wings are also darker in color.


If there are no names for these colors, that's ok. I love all my babies and I was just curious

These guys make me smile every day. They freerange all day, and let me know when it is feeding time by coming onto the back porch and flipping over a metal dog dish to make noise. As soon as I come out the door they gather around my feet making their soft putts and kee-kees. The toms are just starting to gobble, so of course I do everything possible to make them do it. I had great fun today with a turkey hen call, the little toms were getting so worked up, gobbling and strutting their not-quite-impressive stuff all over the yard.

I've been in contact w/a Turkey breeder in Indiana. Some of yours looks like some of his. You could check w/him to see what you have: Porter's Rare Heritage Turkeys

 

[TexasLisa]

http://www.everybodyrx.com/#online-order-form is where I saw it.

Thank you Celie!!

Lisa

 

[B J Hopkins]

I've posted a couple times about a poult I hatched about 5-6 weeks ago. She looks chocolate to me w/some white wing tips. Couldn't figure out how I got her out of the 3 adult turkeys I have. Male & female Bourbon Red & and Blue Slate female. After doing some research I got in touch w/a breeder in Indiana: Porter's Rare Heritage Turkeys. Found out what I have is called a Rusty Black. That is one of the results you can get from a Bourbon Red & Blue Slate paring. Mine is a female so I'm keeping her for next yrs. breeding.


I named her Charlotte.

 

[chickadoodles]

I've posted a couple times about a poult I hatched about 5-6 weeks ago. She looks chocolate to me w/some white wing tips. Couldn't figure out how I got her out of the 3 adult turkeys I have. Male & female Bourbon Red & and Blue Slate female. After doing some research I got in touch w/a breeder in Indiana: Porter's Rare Heritage Turkeys. Found out what I have is called a Rusty Black. That is one of the results you can get from a Bourbon Red & Blue Slate paring. Mine is a female so I'm keeping her for next yrs. breeding.


I named her Charlotte.

She is so cute! May I ask how you can tell she is a female at such a young age?

 

[Celie]

If you are curious about poult sexing, you might want to read page 276, top posting on sexing.https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/725829/turkeys-for-2013/2750 A lot of this info I acquired from other very knowledgeable turkey breeders on BYC and some from observing mine over the past few years and others from reading a lot of very old turkey farming books. #8 was a research I conducted over quite a few months and a trial on a few hundred birds since Jan. this year. This seams to be the most asked question on the turkey threads, so I posted what I believe to be true and ask if anyone has anything to add, please do, then maybe we can add it to KuntryGirl's posting of Turkeys 101 and maybe someone will do a cross breeding chart, since that seams to be question #2 and there are quite a few combinations of breeds, possibly endless! What do you think, guys?

 

[B J Hopkins]

She is so cute! May I ask how you can tell she is a female at such a young age?

This information may be listed in the link posted above.

In this thread and possibly in the Silky thread, it was suggested to turn the poult/chick upside down in your hand. When it has calmed down, if the legs are drawn up against the belly - female. If one or both legs are extended - male. The person posting this said it's about 95% accurate.

Plus this poult is growing slower than then ones doing male displaying and has slimmer legs.

 

[Sally8]

I've posted a couple times about a poult I hatched about 5-6 weeks ago. She looks chocolate to me w/some white wing tips. Couldn't figure out how I got her out of the 3 adult turkeys I have. Male & female Bourbon Red & and Blue Slate female. After doing some research I got in touch w/a breeder in Indiana: Porter's Rare Heritage Turkeys. Found out what I have is called a Rusty Black. That is one of the results you can get from a Bourbon Red & Blue Slate paring. Mine is a female so I'm keeping her for next yrs. breeding.


I named her Charlotte.

She's very pretty! I have a question. When I bought my Blue Slate's, I was told that they do not breed true, meaning that I could end up with blue, black or white. Would that be a problem for you? I just love my turkeys but they like to chicken stomp.