Re: Turkey Question

OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote: 
In article <3q2qm2Fcn548U3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 katy <katysails@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:

In article <3q26aoFco94pU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
katy <katysails@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Andrea Midtmoen Fease wrote:


Female turkeys are a bit smaller than their male counterparts, and yes the wattles are much smaller. Females will do the turkey dance, especially around other females, to establish pecking order. I can't remember, now, if turkeys have spurs, but they are analogous to chickens - females are finer boned and generally slimmer, without all the display feathers of males.

Our turkeys laid a clutch of eggs in the spring, and that was it. No continuous laying from them like chickens.

Enjoy your turkeys, they're a hoot! I had bronze and bourbons, both were nice birds!

- Andrea

"katy" <katysails@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3q0kamFca2qpU3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



I have 2 bronze turkeys. One is 2 months older than the other. Both do the turkey dance and rail display and both will run after Rasputin if he gets roo-ey at them. My daughter keeps insisteing that the smaller, the older bird, is a female. I think it's just a smaller bird naturally...she's basing this on the fact that the dingle-dangle on it's beak isn't as long and wormy as the younger,m bigger birds, so it must be a female. Do the females do the tail display and the turkey dance? I thought only males did? I think it's just a male with less testesterone myself...

katy



I will enjoy them on Thansgiving Day...as will the rest of the family...
I am not enamoured with them and don't think I will get new poults in the spting...I'm trying to undiversify my poultry flock, getting down to just the chooks and the geese...the runner ducks are fun but serve absolutely no purpose other than that they're funny to watch...

katy 


Really?

Runners were always my BEST egg layers!
And duck eggs are every bit as delicious as chicken eggs.

Mine aren't laying so maybe they're drakes? They were part of the inherited package so I don't know...they're great just for the comic relief...

katy


Could be... ;-)
Look at their tails.
If there are a pair of curly feathers sticking up (and if they don't quack very loud), they are probably drakes.

And you are right about how cute runners are.

I don't know about quacking loud but quacking incessantly sure describes them...
whankwhankwhankwhank all day long
katy
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