Pasture Raised Broad Breasted WHITE Turkeys

[Timothy Menezes]

Yay, glad you found some non GMO turkey feed. Let us know how your birds are doing. thanks

 

[Thomas Lamprogiorgos]

My BBW babies will be of one of these strains in the following links:
https://www.hybridturkeys.com/en/product/

I don't know exactly which one of them will be.

 

[ShannonR]

My BBW babies will be of one of these strains in the following links:
https://www.hybridturkeys.com/en/product/

I don't know exactly which one of them will be.

Ok cool, keep us updated on how your turkeys thrive. I'm sure you'll be back!

 

[Timothy Menezes]

I like the heritage varieties they have, and the White classic mini looks really awesome. Think I would do the Mini, I'll show it to my wife but no way she would go for it. They sell turkeys at 50 days? How odd, I only ever see them sold as day olds here.

 

[Timothy Menezes]

Just looking over the website you linked for the turkeys and thought of something. They go on and on about the genetics and lab work. Just wondering they are manipulating the DNA. If so I would source your birds somewhere else.

 

[Thomas Lamprogiorgos]

I like the heritage varieties they have, and the White classic mini looks really awesome. Think I would do the Mini, I'll show it to my wife but no way she would go for it. They sell turkeys at 50 days? How odd, I only ever see them sold as day olds here.

Better try the broad-breasted white for production and the royal palm for heritage. Not their mini. Try to help biodiversity of extinct breeds.
I will buy from a trustworthy breeder near my house, who is agent of the hendrix company.
It is too sad our greek bronze can't be available out of Greece. It is a laying machine.

 

[Thomas Lamprogiorgos]

Just looking over the website you linked for the turkeys and thought of something. They go on and on about the genetics and lab work. Just wondering they are manipulating the DNA. If so I would source your birds somewhere else.

What is DNA manipulation?

 

[R2elk]

Better try the broad-breasted white for production and the royal palm for heritage. Not their mini. Try to help biodiversity of extinct breeds.
I will buy from a trustworthy breeder near my house, who is agent of the hendrix company.
It is too sad our greek bronze can't be available out of Greece. It is a laying machine.

Again there is only one breed of domestic turkey. So there is no extinct breed. As far as Royal Palms as a variety, they are in no danger of becoming extinct.

Because of the number of backyard turkey owners and breeders, there is no way that the associations that claim how rare certain varieties of turkeys are have any way of knowing the actual populations. The other thing is that those associations in the U.S. only track varieties that the APA recognizes. The APA only recognizes 8 varieties and there are many more varieties than those, many of which are rarer than any of the 8 recognized varieties.

 

[R2elk]

What is DNA manipulation?

DNA manipulation is how GMO plants and animals are created.

 

[Thomas Lamprogiorgos]

DNA manipulation is how GMO plants and animals are created.

Those methods are forbidden in animals.
Although many people claim that hybrids like the white meat birds, the white leghorns and the sex links are GMO.
I don't believe it.