A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[KF0002]

They just call them smoke phase.
Possible a wild mutation but more probable a domestic.

I thought smoke phase was a Narragansett looking Eastern Wild? Ive heard the Narragansett gene has popped up in Eastern Wild flocks but I wonder if it's not just pollution from domesticated birds.

 

[R2elk]

I thought smoke phase was a Narragansett looking Eastern Wild? Ive heard the Narragansett gene has popped up in Eastern Wild flocks but I wonder if it's not just pollution from domesticated birds.

Probably both since the only difference between a Bronze and a Narragansett is the Narragansett gene.

 

[Amer]

I thought smoke phase was a Narragansett looking Eastern Wild? Ive heard the Narragansett gene has popped up in Eastern Wild flocks but I wonder if it's not just pollution from domesticated birds.

Narragansett coloration originated in the wilds and was bred with domestics to create Narragansetts so narragansett colored wilds are just a natural variation but the sweetgrass turkey I saw mounted… ain’t no way that’s a wild.

 

[Bantambird]

wilds and domestics are pretty much the same species anyways, with a few selected personality quirks and slightly chubbier body types for the domestics.

 

[KF0002]

Had a good hatch rate dry incubating. I hatched 100% from my friend's lavender eggs I set for her, 6/6. I also hatched 3 from the Harvest Gold tom and blue sweetgrass hen, and 3 from the Sweetgrass pen. I got about a 60-70% hatch rate on them. None of my eggs from my semi penciled palm hen are hatching. It's probably because the tom is her half brother. The lower hatch rates could be because my hens are young and fairly new layers. The lavender hen my friend has is 2 years old.

This is a poult from Ghost, the blue sweetgrass hen. It has the most defined markings like a BWB type poult but with a red tint to the markings. The others have diluted markings like they are slated. They could be semi penciled cornish palm, blue red phoenix, blue cornish palm, or red phoenix.

 

[KF0002]

Narragansett coloration originated in the wilds and was bred with domestics to create Narragansetts so narragansett colored wilds are just a natural variation but the sweetgrass turkey I saw mounted… ain’t no way that’s a wild.

Lol agreed.

 

[R2elk]

wilds and domestics are pretty much the same species anyways, with a few selected personality quirks and slightly chubbier body types for the domestics.

Other than the Ocellated turkey, the wild turkeys and the domestic turkeys are all the same Genus and species. They differ only in the subspecies.

 

[R2elk]

Narragansett coloration originated in the wilds and was bred with domestics to create Narragansetts so narragansett colored wilds are just a natural variation but the sweetgrass turkey I saw mounted… ain’t no way that’s a wild.

Yes, but was it a Sweetgrass or was it a Calico?

 

[Amer]

Yes, but was it a Sweetgrass or was it a Calico?

I can’t tell if it is a Sweetgrass or Fall Fire

 

[Molpet]

I thought smoke phase was a Narragansett looking Eastern Wild? Ive heard the Narragansett gene has popped up in Eastern Wild flocks but I wonder if it's not just pollution from domesticated birds.

https://www.nwtf.org/content-hub/what-causes-color-phase-turkeys