Turkey chick colors

[Denab]

Hi~
My husband and I bought three baby turkey chicks from a friend they will be a week old on Sunday anyway one is yellow, and the other two are brown...Is there a differance between female and male coloring?
Thanks

Here are the pic's of the chicks

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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[Denab]

Thanks for the info

 

[Thomasturkey]

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There is two sex linked colors in turkeys. Chocolate and Naragansett.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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[Thomasturkey]

You don't breed Chocolates or Naragansetts or understand genetics do you? In chickens a sex link chicken is a cross of a certain color rooster on a certain color hen. It is the same in turkeys if you want a sex-linked turkey.
A example a red sex-link chick is a cross of a Rhode Island Red Rooster and a Delaware hen. See http://www.cacklehatchery.com/redsexlink.html You can sex the chicks at hatch by the color. They are not a pure bred chick, and will not breed true.
In turkeys we have both the chocolate and the naragansett that is sex-linked. You can sex the chicks at hatch if you cross a Chocolate tom on a Black Spanish hen. All the chocolate poults will be hens. All the Black poults will be toms. It works 100% of the time.
I copied this from porters site on chocolates.
Chocolate describes a variation of the plumage color due to the epistatic interaction between black and brown genes. Which means that they are basically a black bird which has been diluted to the chocolate coloration by the presence of the sexlinked brown gene. The toms have two (ee) brown genes while the hens have only one (e-) from http://www.porterturkeys.com/chocolate.htm

This tells you about the sex-linked Naragansett gene.

http://books.google.com/books?id=VM...&resnum=4&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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[TV]

On Porters website it states that breeding an Auburn tom to a Bronze hen will result in Auburn toms and bronze hens thus being sex-linked and discernible by color at time of hatch. This said it does not mean Steve of Snads Poultry doesn't know what he is talking about. To the contrary I have enjoyed his input and find him to be quite knowledgeable. I think what we might have is just a difference in interpretation of terminology. From what I have read the color genetics of turkeys is very complex, almost mind boggling. We will all learn more if we don't take or make things too personal and just let the knowledge and info flow.

 

[jimmythechicken]

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[Lagerdogger]

Perhaps a more thorough answer to the initial question would have lessened debate would have looked something like this...

You cannot tell the sex of the three poults you have without more information. The yellow poult is a white or palm bird, as Steve noted. The brown poults are probably bronze or narragansett, but could be chocolate (again, not enough info, a pic would help). While chocolates can be sex-linked females in certain pairings, if both parents were chocolates then both sexes of offspring will also be chocolate so we still cannot determine sex of your particular birds.