Could anyone help with colors?

Sep 25, 2020
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I have a lavender Tom and a black Tom. I have a lavender hen, a bronze hen and a bourbon red hen.
the Bronze and Red were my first turkeys about a year and a half older than the others and hand raised, as far as I could tell they hate the toms are believe I am the dominant as they always squat at my feet. I have tried locking them up with the toms are they flip out.

their eggs have always been infertile but these eggs I hatched they can’t all be from the lavender pair, like each chick is different!
 
I have a lavender Tom and a black Tom. I have a lavender hen, a bronze hen and a bourbon red hen.
the Bronze and Red were my first turkeys about a year and a half older than the others and hand raised, as far as I could tell they hate the toms are believe I am the dominant as they always squat at my feet. I have tried locking them up with the toms are they flip out.

their eggs have always been infertile but these eggs I hatched they can’t all be from the lavender pair, like each chick is different!
A Lavender tom aka Self Blue (BB CC DD) and a Black tom (BB CC dd) couldn't father those poults.

A Barred Black split to recessive white (Bb Cc dd) could.

To get the white poult, one of the toms and one of the hens would have to be carrying a recessive white color gene (c).

The odds are very good that the first poult pictured is from your "Black" tom and your Bronze hen.
 
Do you think the all white poult will look like a royal palm? I know broad breasted birds don’t live long, but I don’t think it could be one, none of my birds are broad breasted but those are the only two white turkeys I know of
White turkeys can happen in any variety. Royal Palms do start out white and start developing some color when the wing colors come in.

Just because a turkey is white doesn't automatically mean it is broad breasted. Beltsville Small White aren't broad breasted.

For it to be a Royal Palm means at least one of the toms would have to be carrying a Narragansett color gene.
 
White turkeys can happen in any variety. Royal Palms do start out white and start developing some color when the wing colors come in.

Just because a turkey is white doesn't automatically mean it is broad breasted. Beltsville Small White aren't broad breasted.

For it to be a Royal Palm means at least one of the toms would have to be carrying a Narragansett color gene.
Thank you very much for your help
 
Here are my two toms, two of my hens are behind them View attachment 3561936
I can't see the wing feathers on the Black to be able to tell whether it is barred or not.

You do not have a Lavender (BB CC DD) tom. You have a Blue Slate (BB CC Dd) tom. Lavenders do not have any black on them.

Is your hen a Blue Slate too?
 
The fact that your Slate tom is not a Lavender makes it likely that he is the father of the poults. If he is split to white (carrying the recessive white color gene) makes it possible to produce white poults when mated with a hen that is also split to white.
Can you tell if a turkey is split to white like you can with peafowl? Split to white peafowl will have at least one white primary feather.
 
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