We also added some Heritage breed turkeys to the growing list this year.
we have 5 Beltsville whites, and a Pair of Chocolates.
The Beltsvilles are going to the freezer, however the chocolates are so beautiful, we have decided to keep the pair and breed them for spring. Hoping for lots of hatching eggs and poults.
We will be hatching as soon as we begin to get eggs in the spring of 2010, and Hope to offer fertile hatching eggs as well. The Chocolate turkey is a fairly rare and difficult to find turkey.
The toms average around 22# and the hens around 12-15#. They are NATURAL breeders and fully capable of flight, and they know it too! We raised them in a small dog kennel in the pasture until they were big enough to not disappear thru the fence. They are let out daily to free feed in the pasture and the woods surrounding. They return to their safe place every night. I will attempt to get photos of the birds again.. however they really move quick and i end up with blurry photos every time.
we have 5 Beltsville whites, and a Pair of Chocolates.
The Beltsvilles are going to the freezer, however the chocolates are so beautiful, we have decided to keep the pair and breed them for spring. Hoping for lots of hatching eggs and poults.
We will be hatching as soon as we begin to get eggs in the spring of 2010, and Hope to offer fertile hatching eggs as well. The Chocolate turkey is a fairly rare and difficult to find turkey.
The toms average around 22# and the hens around 12-15#. They are NATURAL breeders and fully capable of flight, and they know it too! We raised them in a small dog kennel in the pasture until they were big enough to not disappear thru the fence. They are let out daily to free feed in the pasture and the woods surrounding. They return to their safe place every night. I will attempt to get photos of the birds again.. however they really move quick and i end up with blurry photos every time.
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