Blue Mottled Turkeys

[LeBlackbird]

I have 10 black mottled poults coming this spring, basing my breeding off of that. (Thanks for the link though, I'll definitely keep it in mind) I was wondering how I would go about creating a new line of blue mottleds from scratch? How do these genetics work? Would I be breeding Mottleds into slates, blue palms, etc to make these? How many generations did you breed to attain the desired look? Thanks

 

[retlaw]

WoW
Those are beautiful birds.
Did you just hand pick blue slates with unique markings for the breeding program?

 

[spectrumranch]

I used Blue Palms bred with Blue Slates then crossed those offspring into the Black Mottled.

 

[LeBlackbird]

Alright, thank you so much for the info!!

 

[mag42675]

I just inquired a mating pair of blue mottled turkeys. My daughter does 4h and she is doing turkeys as a project. They are beautiful!!! I hope all works out. I just bought her an incubator for them.

 

[TylerKLoew]

If you breed a blue mottled tom turkey with blue slate hens, what colors do you think you will get? I've been I could get many colors including blue slates, black Spanish, blue mottled, black mottled, blue palm, royal palm. I was wondering if all of these colors will be thrown or if I will get less colors than that because that would be a lot of poult sorting.

 

[chickgonecrazzy]

I have a pair of these and I love them. Do you have any eggs available? I would like to have a different line.

 

[R2elk]

Mottled Slate

Tom = Bb1 or Bb, cgcg, Dd, nn hen = Bb1 or Bb, cgcg, Dd, n-

Possible outcomes

12.5% - Barred Self Blue Gray Narragansett
12.5% - Blue Palm
6.25% - Lavender Palm
6.25% - Marbled Black
12.5% - Marbled Slate
12.5% - Mottled Black
25% - Mottled Slate
6.25% - Royal Palm
6.25% - Self Blue Gray Narragansett

Because the Mottled Slates are heterozygous in their color genes they can never be developed into a variety that will breed true to color.

Their original parentage appears to go back to Blue Slate (BB, CC, Dd) and Royal Palm (b1b1, cgcg, dd, nn or n-).

Results predicted by using Porter's Turkey Color Calculator.

 

[chickgonecrazzy]

I understand the different colors you can get. I just want to start with the same color parents.

 

[small-time]

chickgonecrazy, i am in ohio too. Brown county. I recently got a hen like this and put she started laying the next day. She was with a tom that looked like her. I will be putting my bourbon red over her at some point. If you get any eggs from yours i would like to buy some poults in hopes of getting an unrelated tom.