Royal Palm Turkey

[Treid98]

Welcome to BYC!

Check out the color calculator, varieties page, genetics information, and all kind of good fun at the following (possibly a hatchery, but still useful) link..

https://porterturkeys.com/


To me, if I were a possible buyer (and I'm not actually so just for conversation or consideration).. there's no reasonable price until you've incubated some for yourself to check both fertility rate and also viability/hatch rate under your own conditions for verification purposes. In the US.. fertile hatching eggs are defined to be at least 85% fertile (according to one law somewhere). Obviously hatch rate can not be guaranteed.. but knowing for yourself rules out all the what if's a buyer may pose if they're not successful themselves. First eggs.. are also not acceptable as IDEAL for incubation. Now obviously, I'm also a stick in the mud with attention to detail disorder.. but still having fun best I can!

Fertility may be verified.. at least for general purposes.. by the appearance of a balstodisk verses blastoderm on the yolk when cracked open for eating, etc.. bullseye is fertile while a solid spot is not. Pics are all over the web.

Congrats on your new eggs and happy adventures!

ETA: actual value varies by market.

Thanks for all the great info and insight!!!

My wife actually borrowed an incubator this afternoon from her grandpa so we can see their potential! (And ours at hatching them, ha) . I've been trying to attend as many sales as I can to figure out the going rates for my area but surprisingly turkey aren't super common at the sales! Last week there was only one grown turkey, and no eggs up for grabs.

I'm with you on attention to detail, I've already started a spreadsheet tracking how they're laying, what they're being fed at the time, etc! lol

 

[Huntmaster]

Breeding a Royal palm tom to a Bourbon Red hen will produce sex linked results. All the female offspring will be Golden Narragansett and all the male offspring will be Red Bronze.

Your right I need to edit that. getting a little late for me here good catch.

 

[Huntmaster]

In this case results will be the same, as long as they are true to variety. edit Breeding a Royal palm tom to a Bourbon Red hen will produce sex linked results. All the female offspring will be Golden Narragansett and all the male offspring will be Red Bronze.

@Treid98 Made an edit sorry my mistake.

 

[Treid98]

@Treid98 Made an edit sorry my mistake.

No worries at all!

 

[casportpony]

@austria89's Turkey Color Calculator

Cool link!

 

[HeritageFan]

I’m not sure where you are located, but my turkey hens just laid their very first egg of the season yesterday.
I live in the PacificNorthWet, at about 1500’. So we are always behind the “curve”
But.
I know we aren’t the only ones who have “unusual” conditions
Perhaps the market is going to have some poults soon

 

[Treid98]

I’m not sure where you are located, but my turkey hens just laid their very first egg of the season yesterday.
I live in the PacificNorthWet, at about 1500’. So we are always behind the “curve”
But.
I know we aren’t the only ones who have “unusual” conditions
Perhaps the market is going to have some poults soon

I’m down in LA, Lower-ish Alabama ha. Only two turkey at the sale I attended tonight! They sold for $95 a head.

 

[HeritageFan]

I’m down in LA, Lower-ish Alabama ha. Only two turkey at the sale I attended tonight! They sold for $95 a head.

Young adult but at processing weight
(+/- 5-6 months old) heritage variety hens sell for about 75$ here, and Toms for about 100$, “on the hoof”

I offer in house processing for a fee, but tbh only to people I know....
I don’t want someone to improperly thaw a bird - get sick - and cause headaches...

 

[Emmaloveschickens9156]

I think that crossbreed looks very pretty! I’d say around $20-$25 for a dozen fertilized eggs. Possibly more since they are dual purpose turkeys.

 

[Bostonbrody]

Hey everyone! I'm new to the turkey dad life. I bought 3 royal palms a couple weeks back and finally found somewhere to ask more questions! I'm interested in seeing what royal palm/bourbon red hybrids look like as they're my two favorite variations at the moment. Also, I'd love to know what reasonable prices would be for (as far as I can tell) fertile Royal Palm eggs! When I got my 3 they appeared much younger than we expected but at the beginning of this week, they started laying an egg a day!

Thanks for any help you may offer!

I was selling my eggs for $8 a piece.
They are a delicious bird to eat, I only feed them non gmo food and treats. I raise about 7 a year. I kept a Tom and a Hen so that I could get pullets instead of buying them every year. I pay $15 a piece for the pullets.