Turkeys--What's the chances?

[LinckHillPoultry]

Hi everyone.
I have 4 turkeys... a pair of royal palms... and a bourbon red and a blue slate.
Both my bourbon red and my blue slate have beards, and I know that there is such thing as a bearded hen...but my friend SWEARS they're both hens.
What is the chance that they'd both be hens?!
I mean I can see having one bearded hen...but two?!

And BTW they will both be 1 year in April.

What are your opinions?

 

[hinkjc]

Post a pic..I am sure someone on here can tell you if they are hens/toms at a year old. Typically a hen does not get a beard exactly like a tom..it is very straggly and thin.

How about the snood? Does it retract - go from big to small? At that age a tom should be doing that. A hen wouldn't and hers would stay small.

Jody

 

[justusnak]

I would say post a pic. That would help alot to help determine Tom/Hen.
Funny you and I have the same mix...I have a pair of RP, a blue slate hen, and a bronze hen. Happy hatching!

 

[LinckHillPoultry]

^ This is our bourbon red. Not a very recent picture. You can't see the beard developing yet. I'll try to get a recent picture of them when I go out to take care of chores.

 

[wilds of pa]

I have to say a young jenny(hen), judging buy the feathering on the back of the neck and head..

Beards are not very common on hens but ive seen a few in my days...

Charlie

 

[goddinfla]

My royal palm hen has a nice beard. Know she's a she because she's laying eggs.

 

[Nefertiti]

We had a BBW hen that had a beard. She layed eggs, didn't gobble and the clusterings of knbby red flesh (don't know what they're called) on her head stayed relatively small.

 

[sandspoultry]

On the Burbon Red if on the breast the chestnut color is laced with black it is a Tom and if it is laced in white it is a Hen. Judging by the picture I would say Hen.
Sharon in NC