mutt turkeys

[njduck]

i have chocolates and standard bronze. 1 thing I have noticed is that the few crosses I do have. Chocolate tom and a bronze hen. some of the poults are a solid jet black and others look like a standard bronze. I know it cant be a true standard bronze, because I only have chocolate toms. the jet black poults are growing much faster then, the other mixed and the pure breed chocolates

 

[Lagerdogger]

i had planned on getting royal palms due to the smaller size, then I came across a dozen eggs from a mixed pen of (black spanish,royal palm, red bourbon, chocolate, blue slate calico) quite a combination. so what should I expect if i can hatch any (second try). ,i have had day olds in the past that did good but I hoping to hatch some .....then keep a couple each year for next seasons breeding..

You could have just about anything. The black base is dominant over the bronze, so any with black parents will show this trait. True slates are also black-based, so there is a good chance the birds you get will have at least one black gene. Chocolate is recessive but sex linked. Calicos and Royal palms are the same, except the calico has a red gene. This did not come from crossing bourbon reds and royal palms, at least not in one generation.

Some likely possibilities include birds that look like blakccks, slates, bronzes, red bronzes, royal palms, calicos, blue palms, bourbon reds, red palms, more, It really depends on what the toms and hens looked like.