Turkey Spurs

[Chick_in_Indiana]

Do girl turkies get spurs? Should they have bumps on their legs at a week old?

 

[Struttn1]

hens only have the bumps...no spurs except on gobblers. However some turkey hens do grow beards.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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My poults in both sexes have the same size spur-bumps, even at just over a month old. So at a week old, you wouldn't be able to tell males from females by just looking at the spur bumps.

-Kim

 

[SueNH]

At 4 months old you won't be able to tell them apart by spurs either.

I have a hen turkey that is around 3 now and she has spurs as big as some of the 2 year old toms. Spurs on any of them aren't real big compared to roosters.
I've got about 35 of the things so I've got a pretty good sample going on there. The other hens just have bumps. Yearling toms just have large bumps.

 

[pdpatch]

I never really paid much attention to the spurs on ours.

But at 2 weeks some of our males started to strut.

But by the 7th or 8th weeks the males were gobbling, struting, and there snoods started to change.