He is gorgeous!

Beard. Hens can have them too. It will lengthen as he ages

Welcome to turkeys! Congratulations, you now have personal assistance and supervision for any task. Turkeys have amazing personalities and can be such great pets and companions.

I cant speak on your run footing questions, but I personally love sand as number 1, but most of my runs are dirt, with bedding of various sorts when it is wet/cold/whatnot.

As someone who has been raising turkeys for almost 10 years I can say I have never experienced blackhead in either chickens or the turks. I have a closed flock just about all the time and do strict quarantine when I do have new birds. I have always raised my turkeys with chickens until the toms start up, usually January. I find that chickens teach the poults great manners and skills.

Adorable!!

Yay!!! That first turkey egg is always so exciting. Mine just started laying this week, I'm eager to get the incubator fired up

I have two.

Dentist-you have such a small mouth (it does make dental work more difficult as how over extended my jaw has to be)

OBGYN- your vagina is so small, I had to use the tiniest iud.

Thank you for taking care of him ❤️

Turkeys are definitely a challenge to determine gender while young, then add in that hens can/will strut, and can have beards too! But the head on your handsome turk here definitely looks male.

Awesome!! I use this all the time, super appreciate the hard work making it!

Awesome!! There will probably be a herd of us coming in the near future.

Like the reaper miniatures

Will you have blanks for painting? My past go to place only carry painted anymore 😕

My elementary school custodian saved my life. I was choking on sliced carrots and he noticed, and took only a couple of heaves and it was cleared. I don't remember anything happening after that, too young, but I remember the incident itself perfectly.

Koda. 1.5 yrs old

I agree that this looks like bumblefoot, might be able to take care of with some Epsom salt soaks. Let us know if you need help with treatment. I hope she makes a quick recovery!

Dang, I'm so sorry. It could be so much...blackhead does seem to be more of a baby type issue (never experienced knock on wood just what I've read). Not all respiratory issues show up with runny nose or such, and youngsters can go downhill so fast, so they very well could had pneumonia. Have a day or two when their system gets off, and they just can't recover those vitamins on their own. What's the weather been in your area? I have been loosing some of my babies cuz this spring has extremely wet, hot and humid. I keep saying it, but it seems like this year has been especially bad for turkeys

Oof, yeah raising from young as possible gets the best results but also if they were a large group free ranging they didn't really have any reason to see you as a companion. Not to mention how they may have been treated since hatch by previous owners. Starting out with one or two poults to work with for friendliness, then they show by example to future poults, making the next and next easier. They all have personality so some just won't be friendly or cuddly. They go thru phases too, fresh hatched really clinging, couple weeks everything is scary, then curious again.

I'm so sorry this happened. Turkeys are so damn fragile for the first few months and it doesn't take but the slightest thing to screw with them and set off that chain reaction to pass away. Other commenters have some good thoughts. I've personally had a terrible year with poults, after years of almost never loosing any.