Too adorable, Amber!
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we have blue slate hens no toms and royal palm hens, 2 toms, funny thing is where did the black baby turkeys come from ?
we also have guineas, they may be lazy but they are smart, they went and layed their eggs next to the turkey hen and the turkey hen would scoop them up under her to sit on also. yesterday i found 2 baby guinea babies running around.
Blue Slate turkeys don't breed true to color. When you breed a blue slate to a blue slate you can get blue slate poults (50%), self blue poults (25%), and black poults (25%).
When you cross a royal palm with a blue slate you can get two different versions of blue and also black poults. The black poults are from the royal palm/blue slate cross.
When I crossed my blue slate tom with my royal palm hens, I predominantly got black poults and a few blue poults. This year I have switched to a self blue tom and should therefore have eliminated any black poults.
Here are 3 Royal Purples (the top 2 are Pied) and 2 Chocolate keets from my last hatch, for a comparison. They are 5 days old now so their body down colors aren't real visible, but you can still compare the head stripes colors at least. Chocolates are noticeably lighter.
If your keet looks different try to post a pic and I can probably tell you what you hatched.
For the blue ones to be self blues, she would have had to have been mated to a blue slate tom. Since your toms are royal palms they have to be blue versions of the blue slate/royal palm cross. There are two different blue possibilities there. From my understanding one of those possibilities if mated back to a royal palm tom can produce a blue palm.