Photos of the Chompipes, Costa Rican turkeys!

[Costa Rica Art]

Here are some photos

of the Chompipes (pronounced, chom - pee - pas

). I asked about their origins and got a blank look, they are turkeys. . . .

The old tom and a younger one.

Showing off the the lady!

Poults going on 4 weeks.

I think the ladies like him!

Poults being curious

Ain't she pretty?

OK, take a good look and toss in your comments about what you think about what kind of turkeys I have here in Costa Rica.

The poults will be raised with the chickens and will have the run of the fenced in backyard when they can no longer squeeze thru the chain link fence with one wing clipped.

We are going to have to import bugs for the turkeys as the chickens have cleaned them out.

Oh yeah, we were only going to raise two for the table but my bride thinks two would be raised to reproduce so two more were added along with two being held for our neighbor who needs to finish her pen to keep them in or we will have two more for the freezer.

I forgot to mention that we only have the 6 poults, the others were the ladies breeding stock where I purchased the poults, their photos were just for identification purposes.

 

[lilchick]

Wow those are some nice looking turkeys! Too pretty to eat.

Kind of reminds me of eastern wild or the narragansett.

 

[jasonm11]

they look like my eastern wild. good looking birds.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

sp cool! thanks for sharing something from so far away. Love the "look" over the origins

will have to wait for the experienced on the breed type

 

[seabreeze]

Very nice turkeys! They do look like the Narangansett; more so than the Merial!

Thanks for the pronunciation too, I was wondering and sounding quite silly.......

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

Wow, beautiful Turkeys!!

 

[Lagerdogger]

The toms certainly are not Eastern wild or Narragansetts. These birds are black-winged bronzed based. Notice the lack of barring in the wings. Royal palm is the only heritage strain with black wings, so these birds won't be found in the APA standard.

The toms look like penciled black-winged bronze, and they might have a red gene. The hens look more Narragansett like, but I can't see enough to tell, and the one in the second picture is too brown. If the toms have recessive palm and or narragansett genes, the offspring could be of many colors, most of which don't have standard names. With careful breeding you could tease out some of recessive genes.

I do like the fine barring on the hen in the fourth picture!

 

[thebirdguy]

Nice looking turkeys.. If you ever have more eggs than you know what to do with... box some up and ship them to me!!

 

[jasonm11]

they look like turkeys to me