What Did I Get?

[Oregon Blues]

I ordered 2 BBW turkeys from a local feed store. I picked them up today, which makes them somewhere between 2-3 days old, depending upon how long the shipping took.

Here's the question:

Every BBW turkey poult I've ever seen has had white feathers. I've only seen live BBW poults in the other feed store; the one I won't buy poultry from because they are all in open bins where every person who walks by can touch them and every child can pick them up. They do, however, have poults all spring and their BBW's are white.

My two little guys are yellowish with a coffee tint and their heads are a pale coffee color in a helmet shape. The area around their eyes is pale. They are really small, but they do look like turkeys and not like chickens.

Do BBW come with a colored head? It is pale: coffee with a lot of cream in it. They aren't brown or chipmunk colored, so they aren't bronze.

 

[frank53061]

I ordered 2 BBW turkeys from a local feed store. I picked them up today, which makes them somewhere between 2-3 days old, depending upon how long the shipping took.

Here's the question:

Every BBW turkey poult I've ever seen has had white feathers. I've only seen live BBW poults in the other feed store; the one I won't buy poultry from because they are all in open bins where every person who walks by can touch them and every child can pick them up. They do, however, have poults all spring and their BBW's are white.

My two little guys are yellowish with a coffee tint and their heads are a pale coffee color in a helmet shape. The area around their eyes is pale. They are really small, but they do look like turkeys and not like chickens.

Do BBW come with a colored head? It is pale: coffee with a lot of cream in it. They aren't brown or chipmunk colored, so they aren't bronze.

I am new to Turkeys but my experience is where there is yellow on a chic it means it will be probably white.
I have seen some off coloring with the yellow but still will be white from my experience.
can you send a picture.
There is one RB Poult below the others are Chics there colors are lite brown turning darker brown to almost a red as they got older with feathers.

 

[Oregon Blues]

They are about the color of the one standing up in that photo, except that there is absolutely no spotting, blotches or splotches on the backs.

This morning, they have white wing feathers coming in, so it looks like they really will be white.

I'm amazed at how dainty they are. 2-3 delicate little sips of water, as opposed to putting the bill in the water, making outboard motor noises while water comes flying out the corners of their mouth, like ducks do.

Each little piece of food is delicately picked up instead of shoveling it in by the mouthful.

They are very calm and curious. I suspect I'm going to like having turkeys.