What color/gender is this poult?

[SarahGfa]

I can't tell anything from #2 with only that picture to go by.

Is this angle better? This one doesn't like me. It won't let me get close to take a better photo.

 

[R2elk]

Is this angle better? This one doesn't like me. It won't let me get close to take a better photo.

Sorry, not really. I recommend 3 photos for sexing turkeys from photos.

1 - Full front view.
2 - Full side view
3 - Shot taken from above and behind that includes the back of the neck and top of the head.

Each photo tells a different story of the individual turkey making an educated guess much easier when a person combines the information gleaned from all 3 pictures.

A caveat with Bronze turkeys is that it can be difficult to tell if the lower edges of the breast feathers are light colored. Some lighting conditions can make them appear light colored in a photo when they aren't due to the fluorescence of their feathers. You will be able to detect this in person easier than from a photo.

 

[SarahGfa]

Sorry, not really. I recommend 3 photos for sexing turkeys from photos.

1 - Full front view.
2 - Full side view
3 - Shot taken from above and behind that includes the back of the neck and top of the head.

Each photo tells a different story of the individual turkey making an educated guess much easier when a person combines the information gleaned from all 3 pictures.

A caveat with Bronze turkeys is that it can be difficult to tell if the lower edges of the breast feathers are light colored. Some lighting conditions can make them appear light colored in a photo when they aren't due to the fluorescence of their feathers. You will be able to detect this in person easier than from a photo.

Back of head. If that's not enough I will try again tomorrow. It's a Black turkey, not bronze. No light colored edges on breast feathers.

 

[austria89]

Is this angle better? This one doesn't like me. It won't let me get close to take a better photo.

It's a male.
For this variety (Dilute Rusty Black) the feather sexing doesn't work.
The breast feathers don't tell you anything about the sex in black-based varieties.

 

[SarahGfa]

Thank you everyone for the help.

 

[R2elk]

It's a male.
For this variety (Dilute Rusty Black) the feather sexing doesn't work.
The breast feathers don't tell you anything about the sex in black-based varieties.

I disagree. My Tri-color Mottled Black hens have light colored lower edges on their breast feathers. The tom has black colored lower edges on his breast feathers. They are a black based variety.

 

[austria89]

I disagree. My Tri-color Mottled Black hens have light colored lower edges on their breast feathers. The tom has black colored lower edges on his breast feathers. They are a black based variety.

I should have been more specific.
There are a few exceptions were you can have the typical differences in the phenotype of males and females but it's not guaranteed, therefore, the method is not reliable to determine the sex in black-based varieties in general. Also mottled females can have dark edges, this depends very much on the line and the interaction of the black gene with the BWB/bronze gene.


dark edged females:

 

[Molpet]

Someone FB posted their turkey chopper. A machete bolted between wood. It was a video and this is a screenshot.
I think ralphie was talking about a guillotine, this is close

 

[SarahGfa]

If you look closely at #1 I believe you will see light colored lower edges on her breast feathers. Light colored lower edges on the mature breast feathers of a dark colored bird is a positive sign of a hen.

I can't tell anything from #2 with only that picture to go by.

#1 gobbled today so I guess it is male also. I wanted to have a nunnery but instead I got Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (one hen and 7 males). This sucks.

 

[Molpet]

#1 gobbled today so I guess it is male also. I wanted to have a nunnery but instead I got Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (one hen and 7 males). This sucks.

Lots of turkey dinners.
Or a bachelor flock our of sight of the hen and chickens