Re: Turkey Question

In article <3q2tjfFcm80kU2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
katy <katysails@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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

That's a duck thing. :-)
And why I have muscovies...
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Om.

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