Can anyone help Identify some four day old Turkeys?

[retlaw]

Do not "Black Spanish" have black feet?
Black "Blue slates" have pink feet.

 

[ColbyNTX]

Do not "Black Spanish" have black feet?
Black "Blue slates" have pink feet.

Pretty much, but blue slates are blue are not black. If you look at the pic you can see the black running down the legs. I never suggested they were the best of show quality BS turkeys but it's what they will turn out to be.

 

[TimelessRanch]

The black ones look just like my Black Spanish, so I am pretty sure that's what you have. I also have 1 BBW and your yellow baby looks just like my BBW..

 

[BarneyChick97]

The yellow chick looks like a broad breasted white to me too. I think they are genetically modified..... they might be the same age, but just watch to see if it gets much bigger than the rest. I think that is how you'd know. We have bronze, bourbon reds this year, and one BBW. They are all the same age, but this how the order of size goes (from S-L) bourbon red, bronze, and WHITE!! I also heard they can't lay eggs? Hopefully that is the one you want to eat? Our largest white turkey was 44LBs. We had to cut him in half to fit him in the oven! Good times!!

 

[retlaw]

Here is a great identification website.
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Turkeys/BRKTurkey.html

Black
The Black is a very old variety, possibly the first variety to be developed. Probably some of the original turkeys taken to Europe were black. The Black turkey was very popular all across Europe, but especially in Spain and Norfolk County, England. I have been told that there can be two varieties of Black turkeys called the Spanish and the Norfolk. The adult Norfolk turkeys (in the U.S.) can have some white tipped feathers with pink toes and shanks. The British poultry Standard of 1951-1971 calls for the Norfolk Black to have black shanks and toes with no white in the feathers. The adult Spanish Blacks are completely black with solid black feather, shanks and toes. I have kept two lines over the years and both adult strains had black shanks and toes, but one line had white in the feathers and the other had no white at all. The Black turkey was admitted to the APA Standard in 1874, and it is interesting to note, that the current APA Standard calls for the shanks of adult Black turkeys to be pink with no white in the feathers. . . . Standard weights are 33 pounds for toms and 18 for hens.
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Turkeys/BRKBlack.html

Slate
The Slates, sometimes called Blues or Blue Slates, are related to the Blacks but they are less common and their actual development is more obscure. The color could have bee developed before European contact, in Europe, or in the U.S. The color is analogous to self blue or splash in chickens. It may have originally been produced by breeding blacks to whites or near white black sports. We have one variety with two genotypes. In fact, three, because when even-colored true blues (black X splash) are obtained, judges often favor them over splash, which is often marked with black, and self blue, which is generally very light despite the standard's preference for slatey or ashy birds.

This variety is very interesting, and I will attempt to explain what can happen in breeding this color. First, I will try to define each color that occurs. A Slate is also called a Splash and is slate or ashy blue with specks of black scattered over the feathers. The Blue is more of a solid, dull, grayish-blue with the hens a lighter bluish gray. The Black is just that, black. When breeding Blue to Blue, the results are turkeys of three different colors: Slate, Blue, and Black. When breeding Slate to Slate, the results are just Slates and Slates will breed true. When breeding the Blue to Black, both Blues and Blacks result with no Slates. When breeding the Black to Black, just Blacks result, which breed true. This variety was not used on a large corporate basis, but was one ot the colors that was used by farmers to distinguish a flock of turkeys from a neighbor's flock and, thus, did have a market value when more turkeys were being raised on individual farms than on large corporate farms. http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Turkeys/BRKSlate.html


I can not see how someone can tell the difference between a black Grey Slate and a Spanish or Norfolk breed.
Even different organizations have different standards for the breeds like the colouring of the feet.