Chocolate turkeys

[chasing ducks]

I bought 7 turkeys tonight from a breeder and had a few questions. It looks like they are 2 different breeds but he assured me that they were all chocolate turkeys, just in different color phases. Some are spotted chocolates and some are dark chocolates, can anyone explain how this is possible to me? I don't understand the whole color phase thing. About half of them look like the pics I have seen on Porters, the other half actually reminded me of my golden quail chicks. Also, he uses layer mash for his poults, I couldn't find any so I got non-medicated chick starter that says it's for quail and turkeys and is 24% protein, is this too much?

 

[turkeybreeder]

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i also have chocolate turkeys and the person that sold me them said
they breed three different colors of chocolate
dark chocolate, chocolate and auburn, look at them on porters website
look for auburn or mottled chocolate, chocolate have a great day

if you like you can also join the turkey color genetics group on yahoo
thats kevin porters group, and there you can post the pictures so he can
tell you what kind of turkeys they are, kevin is the expert when it comes to
turkey color genetics

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TurkeyColorGenetics

 

[Tunastopper]

Do the poults all have mask? Chocolate turkeys always have mask and are genetically just a black turkey with a sexlinked brown dilution gene. Alburns are the bronze version of the brown gene. They do not have mask. They can also have other dilution genes.

 

[DaKid]

pic's would be nice , and what age are they

 

[turkeybreeder]

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here are some pictures of my chocolate turkeys, thought i share these pictures
not alot of people have seen chocolate turkeys

 

[RedRoosterFarm]

I have 1 tom and 1 hen. Both Chocolates and get a ton of eggs. I have hatched all the eggs and I get 2 different color turkeys from them. darh brown and the others are washed out brown but both parents are purebred chocolates.

 

[Marty1876]

Lets chat Choclate Turkey!!

 

[Porterturkeys]

Lets chat Chocolate Turkey!!

They breed true, if yours don't they are not pure.


Kevin

 

[Marty1876]

They breed true, if yours don't they are not pure.


Kevin

I agree. when I saw the post, I figured it was someones attempts at restoring the breed resulting in the birds described. They should be solid chocolate color, each and everyone. Do you have them? It would be nice to get what there are of us chatting togather.

 

[Porterturkeys]

I agree. when I saw the post, I figured it was someones attempts at restoring the breed resulting in the birds described. They should be solid chocolate color, each and everyone. Do you have them? It would be nice to get what there are of us chatting togather.

Yes I raise them.
Here is a pic of one of my toms.

You can see more on my website at http://www.porterturkeys.com/chocolate.htm


Kevin