Are These Royal Palm Turkeys

[turkeybreeder]

i am not familiar with royal palm turkeys
and saw these for sale in my state and want to make sure they are royal palm
this year i bought some turkeys thinking they were narragansett turkeys
and turn out to be standard bronze turkeys, please let me know thanks
they said they are 8 weeks old

 

[RAREROO]

No Definitly not Royal Palms, RPs are mostly solid white with just a few black marks here and there at that age.

 

[Lagerdogger]

Looks like they might be standard bronze again, or maybe Narragansett.

Did someone tell you they were Royal Palm?

 

[MrChicken207]

Could they be calico?

 

[turkeybreeder]

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yes i call the people that had them for sale
and they told me the hen was royal palm
could they be narragansett cross with royal palm

 

[Tunastopper]

Royal Palms have a Black wing bronze gene, a Naraganzett gene and a Grey (palm) gene. If crossed on anything other than a palm you will see both bronze and naraganzett come out. Maybe a few white feathers too.

 

[Lagerdogger]

Looking again at the pictures, if they are not overexposed, I would lean towards Narragansett. By eight weeks, Narragansett poults look lighter grey than bronze poults. If the hen was a Royal Palm, and the Tom was a Narragansett, the poults would have a recessive black-wing gene, a recessive palm gene, and two narragansett genes, and the poults should look pretty much like narragansetts. But if that were the case, you would think the owners would mention that the tom was something other than bronze.

If the tom was bronze, the poults would be recessive in black-wing, palm, and narragansett genes, and they would look like bronzes.

If the owners routinely mix breeds, then the tom could have started with recessive genes, and who knows what the offspring will grow into.

However, if these turkeys are very affordable for you, you can grow them up, and breed them to another royal palm that you could aquire later, and some of those poults will grow up to be Royal Palms.

 

[RAREROO]

I hatched a chick from a Bourbon Red tom on a Royal Palm hen and it came out looking like a bronze.

Did the seller know what the father(s) could be ?

 

[sgtmck1]

these are Narragansetts. they look alot like yours

 

[DaKid]

these are pic or RP Turkeys