Has anyone heard of are seen broad breasted auburns?

[Heritageturkey]

The Auburn, also known as the Light Brown, is one of the rarest varieties of heirloom turkeys currently in existence. It has been referenced by name in written records since the 1700's, and is named after the light reddish-brown color of its plumage. As the Auburn hen is very similar in type to the Bronze, and the tom is a distinctive coloration, the breed is autosexing. There is also an extremely rare variant of the Auburn, called the Silver Auburn. http://www.downtotherootsmagazine.com/Blogs/2010_Oct07.htm

Check this web address the Auburns are beautiful http://www.threewillowsranch.com/auburn_turkeys.html

The silver auburn is actually what was referred to as the light brown, auburns were called either just brown or dark brown originally, In 1990 the names were changed to auburn and silver auburn.
Also the hens are the same color/pattern as the toms, The variety is not auto sexing like some of the info out there states, they do carry the sex-linked brown genes but you can only get auto sexing results when you breed to another variety, one example is: An auburn tom to bronze hens, then in this cross you would get auburn hens and bronze toms making it quite easy to auto sex poults at hatch.
This was a breeding that was once done and somehow got all turned around by editors over the years, that had never bred much less seen an auburn turkey.

 

[Jesz]

I will have to wait and post pictures as they get older and get feed back as too what in the world did valley of the moon turkeys sent me. If you go to their website it says broad breasted auburns. I wanted bronze they only had 4 bronze hatch and 3 died during shipping and on christmas day they only bronze one left died. I'm clueless as to what the sent me, but I am so glad I have them.

 

[Jesz]

Its been a few weeks here is an updated picture . He is a cutie pie.

 

[Arielle]

Something about the face of the chocolate is very cute and atractive!!

I have auburns, a few, don't know that I actually told you that. Mine are from Porters and I amd eager to see how the grow.

COngrats on score a few more older turkeys to add to your flock.

 

[Jesz]

Thanks, the older turkeys do not want any interactions they move away everytime someone goes out there.

The black tom gobbles and gobbles, if I gobble at him he will do it back until I stop. My husband thinks that is too funny, sounds like he is talking to me.

Since they free ranged and now they are not, I'm trying to give them alot of greens and will be picking up berries this week. They are barely eating feed. We have 2 huge gardens, the chickens and turkeys favorite is mustard greens.

My godmother told me to always feed the chickens and turkeys peppers, it keeps them healthy. I don't know if this is true, but she has never lost any of her flock to illness, only predators. She said to plant the hottest peppers it won't hurt them one bit.

 

[Jesz]

Thanks for the links. They are huge compared to the ones I already have at this age, they are a month old.

 

[Celie]

Thanks, the older turkeys do not want any interactions they move away everytime someone goes out there.

The black tom gobbles and gobbles, if I gobble at him he will do it back until I stop. My husband thinks that is too funny, sounds like he is talking to me.

Since they free ranged and now they are not, I'm trying to give them alot of greens and will be picking up berries this week. They are barely eating feed. We have 2 huge gardens, the chickens and turkeys favorite is mustard greens.

My godmother told me to always feed the chickens and turkeys peppers, it keeps them healthy. I don't know if this is true, but she has never lost any of her flock to illness, only predators. She said to plant the hottest peppers it won't hurt them one bit.

Hot peppers will also up their body heat, so they will lay more eggs during cold weather, at least it does with chickens.

Its been a few weeks here is an updated picture . He is a cutie pie.

He sure is!

Thanks for the links. They are huge compared to the ones I already have at this age, they are a month old.

That is Very Huge for only a month old!

 

[cjbuchholz]

I have a few BB auburn hens left from 2 years ago which supposedly came from Diestel Ranch in California. I crossed them with a Narragansett tom. They started dying off about 4 or 5 months of age. Looked kind of like the black spanish poults with the white face mask. The pur Narragansetts made it. Have a second batch, now, about 5 weeks old and they seem to be doing well. Fingers crossed.

 

[Celie]

Thanks for the links. They are huge compared to the ones I already have at this age, they are a month old.

If these so called BB Auburns are growing so fast and called broad breasted, they might be crossing a Heritage Auburn with a BBW to get these, but they would be hybrids?

Did you ever manage to get your Black Spanish to start laying fertile eggs?

 

[Jesz]

My "black Spanish" are bronze. I haven't had luck hatching at all. My hens did not go broody and my chicken I tired setting them under will bust the eggs. Does that mean they are no good?