Royal Palm and the Standard of Perfection

[Lagerdogger]

To answer Frosty, when the tail is being displayed, the upper tail coverts are not long enough to match up the bands. If you look at a standard bronze, for example, there are two distinct tan or white bands, one at the edge of the main tail feathers and one at the end of the main coverts.

Omabird's last picture looks like it might have the second band. The bands on the feathers that are growing in are much narrower than the bands at teh end of the main tail feathers. I would guess that the narrow bands are the tail coverts, though it is hard to tell from one picture, and that they will eventually line up into a single band. Many of Omabird's turkeys seem to have the second band. What is the original source of your birds?

 

[OmaBird]

A few years ago I placed a order for Blue Palms and Lilacs from Sand Hill. I guess from reading on the genetics board they where crossing everything under the sun on chocolates to increase there fertility to save them. I seem to be sent a mixture of buff, something that looked like a buff palm, a blue palm that seems to also carry a brown geen, lavendards, blue palms, dirty looking slates (mixed with brown genes). I didn't get any lilacs. I have been breeding them with my original lines that was mostly blacks and naraganzetts cosses. They have mostly been free ranged until this year. I guess I have about 3 generations and there crosses from the Sand Hill birds. From these birds I have just about every color. The original palms hwere not marked very good. They didn't have to much color. The best one is the blue tom below. He does not have that extra band. Maybe it is crossing them to non palms then back to each other that made the band.

Long story short, they would trace back to about 3-4 Palms from Sand Hill.

 

[Tunastopper]

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I was just searching some information when this post came up. I thought you would like to read what Frank Reese said about the double rainbow in the palms tail. http://poultrybookstore.blogspot.com/2010/01/royal-palm-turkeys.html

Looks like people are not breeding them to the APA standards and they still win.