I'll ask if I can order standard bronze through my feed store (someone locally told me I could, so I hope so!)
Just make sure 100% they are not BB Bronzes. They look the same and many don't know the difference. Usally a feed store only sells the BB turkeys. You'll know by the price. Under 8 -...
According to all of the literature I have read they cannot breed. Even hatcheries that sell them state so in their ads. There is a huge turkey farm that breeds broad breasted whites here and they do not "breed", they have to be artificially inseminated to get any poults to hatch and stay in...
has anybody had broad breasted bronze turkeys that DID reproduce naturally?
They can breed it is just that it is not efficient and the tom will crush/kill more hens then he would get bred and fertilized. You can successfully bred a BB back to a heritage tom and she will lay and the eggs will...