A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[KF0002]

Recessive Slates are bronze based (bb).

Ok that explains the barring. I've seen pictures of some recessive Slates you had on this forum. They are really pretty! I love the look of the slated barring in the wings and the penciling in the tail.

 

[Bantambird]

These are recessive slate toms on the move.

 

[Bantambird]

He's finishing up a molt, almost done! He's either a penciled or a tiger bronze.
He's very friendly, but he pretends he's not.

 

[Bantambird]

strike that, he is definitely a tiger bronze, I was just being dumb.

 

[KF0002]

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These are recessive slate toms on the move.

Oh my goodness where can I obtain some of those! They are beautiful!! My husband has forbidden more turkey poults. But he hasn't said anything about eggs.

 

[KF0002]

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He's finishing up a molt, almost done! He's either a penciled or a tiger bronze.
He's very friendly, but he pretends he's not.

He is amazing!!

 

[Bantambird]

Oh my goodness where can I obtain some of those! They are beautiful!! My husband has forbidden more turkey poults. But he hasn't said anything about eggs.

porter's is really the place to get them. I think turkey eggs don't travel in the mail very well, although I haven't tested that theory myself, I do know that the eggs can be very temperamental and a lot of people have trouble hatching them. I took a few years to really dial in turkey parameters on my old incubators so they hatch well for me, but I am not sure it is worth shipping their eggs. Poults are your best bet on starting. I only have one recessive slate hen, so she of course hid her nest somewhere out in the pasture and freaked me out for a month, but I am probably going to band all her poults since they will carry recessive slate, or be recessive slate. For as huge as the recessive slate line is, the toms aren't the bosses, I am pretty sure that the tiger bronze and a blue sweetgrass are the current boss toms.

 

[Molpet]

Oh my goodness where can I obtain some of those! They are beautiful!! My husband has forbidden more turkey poults. But he hasn't said anything about eggs.

Good luck with shipped eggs.
Last year for a 4h project a friend took 2 dz of my turkey eggs. They were all collected over 2 days. One dz sat on the counter until the dz she shipped from her local post office to herself arrived. All went into the incubator at the same time . 11 of the counter eggs hatched and 6 of the shipped.
Now my original pair of turkeys came from someone who hatched shipped eggs.. all 12 hatched for her.

 

[Bantambird]

Here is a poult hatched in May, my oldest named Banana. Is this a semi penciled blue sweetgrass?

 

[R2elk]

Oh my goodness where can I obtain some of those! They are beautiful!! My husband has forbidden more turkey poults. But he hasn't said anything about eggs.

The Recessive Slates are one of the bigger heritage turkeys. If a person wants to raise heritage turkeys for food, they would be an excellent choice.