Brand new Turkey Lover with Anonymous Breed Poults

[CosmicSpaceCadet]

Hello,
I have some turkeys who are beginning to grow flight feathers. How old are they? I have no idea the breed of my little ones either. Is there a resource I could try to cross examine with? They’re yellow and a couple are beginning to show brown spots on the very tips of their new feathers in the back

 

[R2elk]

Hello,
I have some turkeys who are beginning to grow flight feathers. How old are they? I have no idea the breed of my little ones either. Is there a resource I could try to cross examine with? They’re yellow and a couple are beginning to show brown spots on the very tips of their new feathers in the back

All domestic turkeys are the breed Turkey. The variety of turkey poults can usually be identified shortly after drying off from hatching or once they have their adult feathers at 3 to 6 months old. Many of the crosses are difficult to determine what they are without knowing the parentage because there are no reference photos for many of the possible varieties.

You can look through many of the heritage varieties at Porter's Rare Heritage Turkeys.

 

[CosmicSpaceCadet]

All domestic turkeys are the breed Turkey. The variety of turkey poults can usually be identified shortly after drying off from hatching or once they have their adult feathers at 3 to 6 months old. Many of the crosses are difficult to determine what they are without knowing the parentage because there are no reference photos for many of the possible varieties.

You can look through many of the heritage varieties at Porter's Rare Heritage Turkeys.

Thanks I’ll check it out. I swear it said “Californian Broad Breasted Turkey” but when I search my results say this breed is extinct?! Not sure

 

[CosmicSpaceCadet]

Hello,
I have some turkeys who are beginning to grow flight feathers. How old are they? I have no idea the breed of my little ones either. Is there a resource I could try to cross examine with? They’re yellow and a couple are beginning to show brown spots on the very tips of their new feathers in the back

 

[CosmicSpaceCadet]

Posting photos

 

[featherhead007]

All I know about turkeys, is they get really nervous around Thursday November 26 this year.

 

[Molpet]

Broad breasted are meat turkeys. Ready to harvest 16 to 20 wks
Heartbreakers if you try to keep as pets. Lots of leg and other issues because they grow so fast and get too heavy

 

[R2elk]

Thanks I’ll check it out. I swear it said “Californian Broad Breasted Turkey” but when I search my results say this breed is extinct?! Not sure

They do look like the variety broad breasted white turkeys aka known as Giant Whites.

When I Google Californian Broad Breasted Turkey, I do not get any results at all. To the best of my knowledge the only turkeys referred to as California are broad breasted whites or broad breasted bronze turkeys which are referred to as California broad breasted simply because they are raised in California. Broad breasted turkeys are definitely not extinct

There are many sites that misuse the term breed as it applies to turkeys.
Some do so simply because they don't know any better and some know better but do it intentionally because they want to.