Wild breed Identification-Merriam's?

[Huntmaster]

Ducks on the pond and a few of Eastern Wild Turkeys raiding duck feeder and bird feeders right out my back picture window. Momma hen raised her 3 littles 1 jake and 2 jennies on the farm got to watch them grow all summer long they roost in a large tree right over the pond.

 

[GJRacingGirl726]

Oh it looks so beautiful there! I miss green pretty things! And trees! I can't believe how much I miss grass and trees. I absolutely love your photos <3 and the duck pond is awesome! Love the bridge and little dock <3 so cool to have the wild turkeys grow up there too! We have wild burros I see sometimes. And free range cows, but that's it, haha.

 

[Huntmaster]

Some pics of my breeding groups separated in breeding pens.

 

[Huntmaster]

Ducks on the pond this morning.

 

[GJRacingGirl726]

The photos are just lovely! I sold 2 random toms today. One was supposed to be Black Spanish but it was definitely brown and had banding on its feathers. The other I think came from a Blue Slate egg but was not. I really want chocolate turkeys. Or sweetgrass. What breeds are all of yours??

 

[Huntmaster]

What breeds are all of yours??

I have Sweetgrass, Red Sweetgrass. Fall Fire, Red Palms, Blue Palms, Lavender Palms, Royal Palms, Red Penciled Palms, Blue Penciled Palms, Tri Colored Penciled Palms, Bronze, Red Bronze, Black Winged Bronze, But not breeding all those varieties every year going to be working on Penciled Fall Fire this spring.

 

[GJRacingGirl726]

I have Sweetgrass, Red Sweetgrass. Fall Fire, Red Palms, Blue Palms, Lavender Palms, Royal Palms, Red Penciled Palms, Blue Penciled Palms, Tri Colored Penciled Palms, Bronze, Red Bronze, Black Winged Bronze, But not breeding all those varieties every year going to be working on Penciled Fall Fire this spring.

Which is your favorite? Im gonna look back through your pictures and see if I can match what types to what they are. Hows your week been? Ours has been wet, rainy, soggy and cold! Got a lot of stuff done inside this week, but I want clear, dry weather so I can separate my calls into breeding pens! Well, so hubby can build them! Hehe. Always a project!

 

[Huntmaster]

I do more with my Sweetgrass and have more of them than other varieties and working on more crosses/varieties using them than others. Weather has been warm for the season but very wet and rainy here also, rather it be colder and snow than mud maybe some snow this weekend. Set 50 quail eggs in incubator Monday and waiting for ducks to start laying so I can get a hatch from them before turkeys start laying. Would like to have some calls but not sure how they would do with so many of my larger ducks so just settle with what I have.

 

[GJRacingGirl726]

Okay I can't tell what is what, but they're all gorgeous! What are the pale brown, like Carmel colored ones? Also, do you sell any hatching eggs? Haha like I need more turkeys. But I do <3 First pic was when we started this morning. Ill add pics tomorrow, we should have 5 of them finished in there. I need 6, he's building me 8 so I can do some fun color crosses. Not sure where we will put the other 3. But I don't like prime numbers, so maybe I need 4 but then that makes my total number an odd number, so that won't work. So he needs to build 5 outside. 5 is an okay number for me. And then I'd have 10. Yup its decided. I need 10. Ill just have to find the right time to tell hubs that! Hehe. It was cold and windy, mid 40s but with the wind felt like 30. But we made great progress, and they should start laying soon!

 

[Huntmaster]

Very nice-looking birds and pens, yes you do keep hubby and yourself busy keep up the good work. (You can never have to many pens) I do sell hatching eggs put have only sold locally never have shipped. The Turkeys I think you are talking about are Red Palms I also have the Red Penciled Palms.