Turkey Talk for 2014

[dheltzel]

dheltzel there are three baby chick tudors in with the br poults to teach them to eat and drink. Thank you

Your poult is very cute but I have no idea what it might be.

I wasn't sure which ones were the BR poults, I've never raised them. I keep chicks with mine also. Once they know how to eat, they teach the chicks how much fun it is to eat from a person's hand. It's funny watching the shorter chicks climbing up on the feeder to get access to the food in my hand, which the poults are busy eating as fast as possible - all the while a full feeder in right below my hand, but they like it so much better when I'm holding it.

Raising chicks is fun, but once you've had turkey poults you realize how much more personable they are than the chicks. They really know how to get attention, as soon as they hear me in the room, they start to call for me, over and over until I come to see them. Once the cover is off, one will usually fly up and land on my outstretched hand.

No, they aren't spoiled . . . not at all.

 

[WalnutHill]

@dheltzel : The poult looks like a Royal Palm. While some hatch out yellow then later "earn their stripes", I believe those come from a tom with two copies of the palm gene. Your tom may be a split palm, allowing some of the mom's color to come through. I think it will still end up looking like a Royal Palm, but I am guessing there will be some mottling/specking in the colors, perhaps like this: https://www.purelypoultry.com/images/turkeys/royal-palm-turkey.jpg

 

[WalnutHill]

On another note, I hope my hens start laying soon and that I can source some more eggs: I built a 200 egg capacity incubator/hatcher (with four autoturners and digital temp and humidity controller) and I'm ready to fill it with turkey eggs.

If you're in SE Michigan and will have turkey eggs (any heritage variant except palm, as so many palms are small) for sale at a reasonable price in the next couple of weeks, please contact me. I will be hatching out extra poults so I can have some up for sale in time to be grown out for Thanksgiving.

 

[dheltzel]

@dheltzel : The poult looks like a Royal Palm. While some hatch out yellow then later "earn their stripes", I believe those come from a tom with two copies of the palm gene. Your tom may be a split palm, allowing some of the mom's color to come through. I think it will still end up looking like a Royal Palm, but I am guessing there will be some mottling/specking in the colors, perhaps like this: https://www.purelypoultry.com/images/turkeys/royal-palm-turkey.jpg

Thanks! that's what I'm thinking too now, the down color is quite pale. I was hoping for a black mottled and trying to see one where there was not. Oh well, there are more to hatch this weekend.

Hatching eggs is quite addictive, I wish the weather would finally warm enough to put some older ones outside.

 

[chickadoodles]

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Here is a pic of just a bourbon red poult


I agree they get spoiled right from the start!

 

[SilkieSensation]

 
@dheltzel
:  The poult looks like a Royal Palm.  While some hatch out yellow then later "earn their stripes", I believe those come from a tom with two copies of the palm gene.  Your tom may be a split palm, allowing some of the mom's color to come through.  I think it will still end up looking like a Royal Palm, but I am guessing there will be some mottling/specking in the colors, perhaps like this:  https://www.purelypoultry.com/images/turkeys/royal-palm-turkey.jpg

Thanks! that's what I'm thinking too now, the down color is quite pale. I was hoping for a black mottled and trying to see one where there was not. Oh well, there are more to hatch this weekend.

Hatching eggs is quite addictive, I wish the weather would finally warm enough to put some older ones outside.

Black mottled starts out completely black except some brown/gold on the head & face. Crossing blue slate with royal palm gives you black & blue mottled.

 

[desertmarcy]

Hi all, I put an ad up for turkey poults if anyone is interested. I've got some interesting and rare varieties as well as some of the more common ones. New and updated photos on my website as well. Thanks for looking.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/956010/heritage-turkey-poults-many-varieties

 

[chickadoodles]

Here is a pic of my project poult that I have been working on for a year! I am so excited!

 

[ladybead]

Very cool!

 

[chickadoodles]

Thank you ladybead.