It depends on which was the father. If the Royal Palm was the father the poults are sex links. The female offspring will be Barred Semi-Color Semi-Gray Dilute Lilac or Barred Black Semi-Color Semi-Gray Narragansett. The male offspring will be Barred Black Semi-Color Semi-Gray or Tri-color Mottled Slate.
Umm ok I suck at genetics but uhh here are some pictures so maybe you can help. The last 2 pictures were just hatched this morning. Are the darker ones in the background in the last pics the males or female?
Based on those colors as poults they should be Barred Semi-Color Semi-Gray Dilute Lilac females and Tri-color Mottled Slate males which may not be enough different to tell apart as poults but will be enough different as adults.
Do you have any pictures of yours? I’ll be breeding my Palm Tom to a Slate female.
These are from a Sweetgrass tom and Blue Slate hen and do not have a Narragansett gene. Yours will have a Narragansett gene.
No one that I know.
This is interesting to know. Last year when I didn’t separate my Sweetgrass turkeys from my blue slates, I got poults that looked like Sweetgrass and poults that looked like blue slate. So I assumed that the two groups had shunned each other and produced purebred offspring. I did tell the buyers that the blue ones might be half Sweetgrass. I wonder if they were tricolored mottled slates. (Although since the Tom was lavender and one of the hens was lavender, and most of the blue chicks hatched out lavender, I still believe those ones were pure.)
Most of the time I cannot tell Tri-color Mottled Slates or Mottled Slates from Blue Slates at the hatch. Sometimes but not always they may have a spot of brown on their head if they are the Tri-colors.
