Pics of a newly hatched blond Narragansett

[gotta have my peeps!]

The baby hatched abound 12:30:


The dad, Mr. Blue:


Possible moms (and a couple siblings):

 

[Oghdoff]

awesome pics of the hatchling!

 

[KrisRose]

A blond Narry!! I feel a bad case of turkey envy coming on

!!!

 

[gotta have my peeps!]

I just hope it's a girl. I don't have room for two toms...

 

[Lagerdogger]

I love Mr. Blue. He's almost enough to make me alter my breeding plans.

 

[ColbyNTX]

Looks like a sweetgrass poult.

 

[Alexander]

Narragansett's look pretty awesome.Might pick some up.

 

[gotta have my peeps!]

Thank you all for your comments.
Mr. Blue is a sweetheart, maybe that's why he sired a sweetgrass poult.

I just looked up sweetgrass poults (being very new to all this, I had no idea) and found some good pictures on Porter's rare heritage turkey site . Our little guy has the black strip running down its back.

I think it may be a tom. It is very vocal and stands up tall.

 

[TGreenhut]

Gorgeous! I am so jealous!!!

Where do you get Narragansett turkeys? My feed store only sells bronze (which I have a couple of).

 

[Lagerdogger]

Looks like a sweetgrass poult.

A sweetgrass would be a black-winged grey, which surprisingly is not a grey bird. The parents of this poult are narragansetts, which do not carry grey genes, and ironicly are grey birds. I suspect the yellow color is coming from a red gene and the poults is a golden narragansett. In the picture of the possible moms, the lower bird may have a golden tinge, and may be carrying the red gene. The sibling on the left may also have a golden tint.

My suspicion is the dried poult looked more like this...? Although not visible, they also have a dark stripe down the back.

If not, and you really do have a sweetgrass, who are the real parents...