Our New White Broadbreasted Turkeys

Matthew has his hands pretty full with the turkeys, chickens, incubation, customers, 3 kids and a pregnant wife. So, I will continue doing most of the posts here too unless he has some instructions or something he wants to share.

So, here are our turkeys just a day or two after Matthew picked them up at the Country Feed store in Montesano. They will get just as big as our regular broad breasted turkeys we had last year but will not have the dark pinfeathers that are noticeable in the meat or skin. These are the kind you buy in the store for Thanksgiving. We bought 15 of them but one was lame so now we have 14. You won't believe how quick they grow. They are over twice their size now and Matthew just picked them up on April 16th. They will grow to over 30 lbs for a tom and over 20 for a hen. Now I have to get to taking pictures again. Matthew just planted me a garden yesterday in front of our hatchery.

Butterball Anyone???

I think he looks more like a duck. They are so cute! I can't believe he won't be able to hold them for long.