Painted Turkeys from porters

[Capricoco]

Anyone know anything about the painted varieties on porters website? Didn’t find much about them anywhere so was curious if anyone here knew anything about them.

 

[R2elk]

Sorry. They appear to be a new addition to his website. The site is under construction and has no text description yet for any of the varieties.

 

[Capricoco]

Sorry. They appear to be a new addition to his website. The site is under construction and has no text description yet for any of the varieties.

I kind of figured that was the case, thanks for the reply anyways. I ordered some because they look like very pretty birds, and they arrived earlier this week so it sparked some curiosity about them.

 

[R2elk]

I kind of figured that was the case, thanks for the reply anyways. I ordered some because they look like very pretty birds, and they arrived earlier this week so it sparked some curiosity about them.

It would be nice to know what their color genetics are.

 

[R2elk]

It would be nice to know what their color genetics are.

"Eighth is the

Spotting site:
Sp for (normal) and sp spotting (mutation)
The turkey variety known as the Nebraskan carried this gene."

Feather Color Genetics

 

[Capricoco]

"Eighth is the

Spotting site:
Sp for (normal) and sp spotting (mutation)
The turkey variety known as the Nebraskan carried this gene."

Feather Color Genetics

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 dominant gene, and the grizzled versions are the ones with 2 copies.

 

[R2elk]

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 dominant gene, and the grizzled versions are the ones with 2 copies.

It is listed as a recessive gene. The Nebraskans may have had something else going on. The ones or at least most of the one's listed have been with the dominant Slate gene.

 

[Capricoco]

It is listed as a recessive gene. The Nebraskans may have had something else going on. The ones or at least most of the one's listed have been with the dominant Slate gene.

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.

 

[R2elk]

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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.

All of those appear to be black based and are showing the face mask associated with the black color gene.

Dominant Slate Painted

 

[Capricoco]

All of those appear to be black based and are showing the face mask associated with the black color gene.

Dominant Slate Painted

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.