This one has me stumped. Do you guys think tom or hen? Also what breed do y'all think it is? Thanks for all the help! Oh yeah, it is about five months old.
It is a young hen if I am not mistaken. Also the breed is Turkey. (I am serious. I will give the variety though) The variety is Narragansett.
This actually looks male to me and is a little dark for a full blooded Narragansett. The snood looks enlarged and lots of caruncles (I know that's spelled wrong). We have 3 males and one female. At 5 months, he should start gobbling soon, if it is a boy.
Thanks! I really hope it's a hen and not another tom. I hope for a hen more than I hope for a pure of any variety. I actually have a slate tom that is a whole month younger than it and he is the same size if not bigger. He is also gobbling and strutting already. I also have a black tom that is the same age and he is very much a tom, constantly strutting and gobbling. That is the largest/longest the snood ever gets, and the hair on the top of the head doesn't seem to be going away . For those reasons I am hopeful it is a hen. It has not strutted nor gobbled and is coming up and 5.5 months of age.
Hope you are right. Of our 3 boy Narri, one is not maturing as fast as the other two. However, he is the most loveable - likes to be close to us.
I am raising 30 Narrangansetts this year . Some of them are around 5 months and I should say that the one you have should definitely be a female. If you have other turkeys with it, it should strut or gobble.
Look at the breast feathers. See how they have white edges? Hen. Narragansett. Looks pretty pure to me.