What sex am I??

silky ma

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new pics mom took today. Mom thinks im gorgeous but doesnt know if im a tom or hen- im not telling!!
Im a sweetgrass and im 6 months old jan 15. Could you please tell mom which i am?
Im taking the 5 th!!
 

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I went thru 5 batches of hatching eggs and 4 chicks made it thru. Then two died. I was left with 2.
Then not to long ago my known sweet tom just up and died- heartattack?
So now im left with this one. Im slowly forming a relationship with this one.
I caught this one nesting in a box like a hen- but then stopped doong that. So im not sure what it is.
 
new pics mom took today. Mom thinks im gorgeous but doesnt know if im a tom or hen- im not telling!!
Im a sweetgrass and im 6 months old jan 15. Could you please tell mom which i am?
Im taking the 5 th!!
Bald head, heavy legs, large caruncles = tom traits. Snood length is short for a tom. No visible beard at 6 months. Unfortunately the breast feather trick does not work on turkeys with patterned, multi-color feathers.

If a tom, he should be able to be stimulated to gobble by 6 months of age unless there is a much more dominant tom around preventing this.

Feel around his upper chest area to see if you can locate the base of the beard. Another thing to check is the snood shape when retracted. If a tom, the snood should retract into a cone while most hen snoods will retract into the horizontal "j" shape exhibited by @casportpony hen.

It is possible that it is a late developing tom.
 

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