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Oh wow! The grizzled/regular differentiation being based on whether they’re BB or Bb is unexpected for me. It makes a lot of sense though. This came right in time for me to decide which Toms I’m picking for this year’s pairings.

I’m going to agree with everyone above and say all girls. Beautiful babies!

Ordered “mixed breed” breeders choice from porters (I love me a good surprise and poults for $5 is hard to resist) and now that they’re starting to get adult feathering I’m trying to get color IDs on most of them. Some of them are pretty easy (we got two white hens) but there are a few I’m...

Little late to the thread, both are definitely hens and I second (third?) to some sort of Narragansett. Golden Narragansetts in my experience are darker when they’re young and lighten up to be a bit darker than a regular Narragansett, so for now I would say these probably are just regular...

We just recently got a Tom from a friend who couldn’t keep him anymore and I’m wondering what color he is. I’m pretty sure he’s a marbled slate but I haven’t seen one before so I’m not totally sure.

Ah, I see! Good to know. Guess we’ll get to see how close all the guesses were when he releases the info.

They do not all turn out paint, part of them turn out white. Regular paints also do not exhibit the dilution of color you would get from having the slate gene present. The spotting gene is hyper specific to the Nebraskan turkeys, which as of present day do not exist in the US.

Since the paints only have “genetic info to come” in their description, I’m relatively certain it’s a new mutation. If it were a combination of known mutations there would probably be a known genotype already considering that Porter has had them for a couple of years by now. I don’t think it’s...

My guess is somewhat similar. I don’t think painted has the spotted mutation, I think it’s probably a new mutation located on the same site as white. Painted (pt//c) (BB ptc dd EE NN PnPn RR SlSl SpSp) Tuxedo (pt//pt) (BB ptpt dd EE NN PnPn RR SlSl SpSp) Grizzled Painted (pt//cg) (BB ptcg dd...

I see, that makes sense since they’re black based birds. I’m wondering how the grizzled paints fall in with this, selectively bred to be darker or something different genetically?

Looks like they were in fact imported from Australia. What strikes me immediately about this post is the blue eyes part, maybe the gene is a form of piebaldism/albanism?

Found something else, the AHTSI also mentions them. I do believe they were probably imported from Australia now.

After a little more digging, it seems like they might originate in Australia from this place. Or at the very least, that’s the only other place online that references painted turkeys.

Grizzled painted Chocolate painted Regular painted They haven’t added it to the new website yet, but there was a picture of a juvenile paint and it was white with black speckling on the edge of the wing feathers.

I thought they were related to Nebraskans, however it doesn’t seem to be the case, it looks like it’s a new mutation. The Nebraskan poults have a trademark brown headshot according to porter’s site, but the paints look very similar to slate poults. If I had to guess it seems like it’s probably a...