Newbie with questions about Turkeys

[Newbie needs help]

Morning all - well its morning here in Australia.
I have a lovely pair of Grey turkeys - I think you call them slate.
Mummy turkey - her name is Donkey - has just successfully hatched 10 gorgeous poults.
Can you tell what colour they will be as poults or do they need to kind of fluff out a bit?
Some are a grey/yellow and two are just yellow.
I cant get great photos as Donkey isn't too happy about being disturbed - these are her first babies.

 

[Molpet]

Picture of the Tom?

 

[R2elk]

Morning all - well its morning here in Australia.
I have a lovely pair of Grey turkeys - I think you call them slate.
Mummy turkey - her name is Donkey - has just successfully hatched 10 gorgeous poults.
Can you tell what colour they will be as poults or do they need to kind of fluff out a bit?
Some are a grey/yellow and two are just yellow.
I cant get great photos as Donkey isn't too happy about being disturbed - these are her first babies.

You have different varieties available to you in Australia than we have here. I am wondering if this is what you have.

Recessive Slate

Your poults do not look like the poults that I would expect from a Slate pairing here.

@austria89

 

[Newbie needs help]

Picture of the Tom?

This is Dragon

 

[R2elk]

This is Dragon

Sure looks like a Recessive Slate to me.

 

[Newbie needs help]

You have different varieties available to you in Australia than we have here. I am wondering if this is what you have.

Recessive Slate

Your poults do not look like the poults that I would expect from a Slate pairing here.

@austria89

So they will all end up being grey?

 

[R2elk]

So they will all end up being grey?

I don't know. I do not know if they might be hiding some recessive genes. I do not know why some of the poults are a lighter color. Your best bet for help is

@austria89

 

[Newbie needs help]

@austria89

Any ideas here? I am a little lost. Not that I care about their colour, I am just super curious and want to learn as much as I can

 

[R2elk]

@austria89

Any ideas here? I am a little lost. Not that I care about their colour, I am just super curious and want to learn as much as I can

You can learn a lot about the heritage varieties at Porter's Rare Heritage Turkeys.

 

[austria89]

@austria89

Any ideas here? I am a little lost. Not that I care about their colour, I am just super curious and want to learn as much as I can

Sorry wasn't online in a while. Yes you have some Recessive Slates.
The poults look very typical. They will turn out the same as your male.