A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[memphis]

He does look like the Porters bird. Pretty cool looking.

 

[Flashpoint]

It would help to see a shot from the front.

Porter's Cross Narragansett (bb1 Ccg nn) which still has the heterozygous Black Winged Bronze gene and the heterozygous color and gray genes but has homozygous Narragansett genes. It looks very similar to a pure Narragansett but isn't quite there.

R2elk - will get a photo tomorrow from the front if all goes well.

Hey - are there any turkeys that are "sex-linked"? Just wondering since of the five poults here - only one is displaying as a gobbler - so far. He's much darker than the other four - who are almost identical down to the feather color and the spots on them lol. They look like their momma. Iron in the picture above is "daddy".

 

[R2elk]

R2elk - will get a photo tomorrow from the front if all goes well.

Hey - are there any turkeys that are "sex-linked"? Just wondering since of the five poults here - only one is displaying as a gobbler - so far. He's much darker than the other four - who are almost identical down to the feather color and the spots on them lol. They look like their momma. Iron in the picture above is "daddy".

There are two sex linked color genes, brown (ee or e-) and Narragansett (nn or n-). Females with those color genes will only have one since it is linked to the male chromosome. Females cannot pass those genes on to their female offspring.

Using the father passes one gene on to each male and each female offspring. Males require two copies of the gene for the trait to be seen but females will show the trait with their single copy.

An example is breeding a Chocolate tom to a Black hen. All of the black poults will be male carrying a hidden recessive brown gene (Ee) and all of the Chocolate poults will be female (e-).

Breeding a Narragansett tom with a Bronze hen will produce males that are Bronze carrying a hidden recessive Narragansett gene (Nn) and hens that are Narragansett (n-).

 

[Flashpoint]

R2elk - will get a photo tomorrow from the front if all goes well.

Hey - are there any turkeys that are "sex-linked"? Just wondering since of the five poults here - only one is displaying as a gobbler - so far. He's much darker than the other four - who are almost identical down to the feather color and the spots on them lol. They look like their momma. Iron in the picture above is "daddy".

Pics I just found of Iron from a couple months ago. Hope these show up well.

Goldie

Dark poult that displays along with light poult sibling.

 

[R2elk]

Pics I just found of Iron from a couple months ago. Hope these show up well.

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Goldie
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Dark poult that displays along with light poult sibling.

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I would guess he is what Porter is calling a Cross Narragansett. I think you should post her on the Turkey Color Genetic group.

It would not surprise me if she has a recessive red (r) gene and a Narragansett (n-) gene but what else she may or may not have, I don't know.

 

[karenerwin]

Pics I just found of Iron from a couple months ago. Hope these show up well.

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Goldie
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Dark poult that displays along with light poult sibling.

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What breed is Goldie?

 

[R2elk]

What breed is Goldie?

The breed is Turkey. I also would like to know what variety "Goldie" is.

 

[memphis]

All these toms are impressive. Then you see a hen like Goldie! Just a beautiful girl! I think I favor hens over the amazingly impressive tom's. Funny because I much prefer a male dog vs a bitch. I think Daisy has spoiled me.

 

[feedman77]

One if the cross hens I saved back.
I know she has some chocolate x ??

Any guesses

 

[Flashpoint]

I would guess he is what Porter is calling a Cross Narragansett. I think you should post her on the Turkey Color Genetic group.

It would not surprise me if she has a recessive red (r) gene and a Narragansett (n-) gene but what else she may or may not have, I don't know.

I requested to join. Would be interesting to know and - somehow - I see I will need to study up on genetics. That might be hard! lol I am sure most of the people on that forum have more knowledge in their little finger than I will pick up in years.