Flying Broad Breasted White Turkeys from Meyer Hatchery

[collaire]

I have one for all you Turkey people. At the end of February this year We received 40 Broad Breasted White Poults from Meyer Hatchery. They are now a little over three months old and, and I don't know what they are, but they are not Broad Breasted Whites. They can fly like eagles, and no BBW tiurkey that I have ever raised in the past could come close to flying. They are now flying up on a 6' high perch to roost at night. We've been in contact with Meyer Hatchery for the past month or so, and they steadfastly insist that they only have BBWs. They are a bit too big to be Midget Whites at three months, which is the only other white turkey Meyer has listed in their catalog. They could be poor example of White Hollands, but Meyer claims they do not have any of these. Has anyone else ever got the wrong breed from a hatchery and what did you do about it? This foul up may cost me a customer, since I raise BBWs for one of our local restaurants, and these were susposed to be processed next month for them.

 

[collaire]

I would really like to know if anyone else who ordered Broad Breasted White turkeys from Meyer about the same time got something different. I may have to reword my original post. I need some feedback here. I have 40 three month old turkeys that I have no market for, plus the feed and labor, and Meyer will do nothing about it.

 

[collaire]

I've raised Broadbreasted Whites for many years, and I've never seen one fly. These are tall skinny rangy birds. I don't know how to do pictures. Had my daughter send a picture to Meyer of the birds. They still maintain that they only have Broadbreasted whites.

 

[popsicle]

How big are the turkeys and are they solid white? Meyer also sells Midget Whites, but they would be very small compared to BBW.

Maybe try submitting this to the Turkey forum for better answers.

 

[collaire]

These are too tall and rangy for Midget Whites, although they are not very heavy. I do have a post in the Turkey Forum as well. Can't seem to get any information from either Forum post.

 

[wolfie115]

We ordered BBW's from Ideal over two years ago and we still have two of them left. Ours could fly but they were certainly BBW's. They would roost on top of a 7ft building when they were younger. They wouldn't get up there as easily as our Narragansetts we had growing at the same time but they still got up there and jumped down on their own most mornings. The hen we have left did it last summer at over a year old, though she rarely would get down on her own. I even found my BBW tom up there a couple of times at about 7 months old. I think it just depends on how hefty the BBW's are and their diet. Ours did a lot of free ranging and have lived longer than anyone's I know of personally. Our hen still gets around really good too.