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I was thinking that she might be a silver dapple, but there are a lot of brown feathers mixed in. Though I do not believe she is a chocolate dapple. Do silver dapple turkeys have brown feathers too? Thank you for the information.

Okay. Thank you.

Some of the turkey’s behavior.

Does anyone know what sex and color this heritage turkey is? I got this turkey from Porter’s on October 13, 2023. As a poult it was grey with a yellow breast similar to a slate.

Why are you forced to cull birds if they have avian influenza? They often do not use humane methods and it rarely affects humans. Examples of methods to cull them are smothering them with foam, shutting off ventilation, filling the air with CO2, raising the heat. Most of those are slow and...

She was almost three months old and she was an early layer. Don’t they usually take the neck and head?

Does anyone know what predator could have killed my turkey. One of my bourbon red hens was in a bush dead. I have a flock of ten turkeys • Only the head and neck were left, however it was seemingly untouched aside from being pulled off of the body • The feathers were not too scattered, but there...